Descendants of Issachar, Benjamin, Naphtali, Manasseh, Ephraim, Asher
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📚Now the sons of Issachar 📖 were Tola and Puah, Jashub and Shimrom, four. 2 📚And the sons of Tola: Uzzi and Rephaiah and Jeriel and Jahmai and Jibsam and Shemuel, heads of their father’s house, that is, of Tola. They were strong valiant men in their generations. Their number in the days of David was twenty-two thousand six hundred. 3 And the sons of Uzzi: Izrahiah, and the sons of Izrahiah: Michael and Obadiah and Joel, Ishiah, five; all of them chief men. 4 📚And with them, by their generations, according to the house of their fathers, were bands of soldiers for war, thirty-six thousand men; for they had many wives and sons. 5 And their brethren among all the families of Issachar were strong valiant men, listed by their genealogies, in all eighty-seven thousand. 6 📚The sons of Benjamin: Bela and Becher and Jediael, three.
7:6 1 Chron 8:1-40. Some think that Benjamin here is a copying mistake for Zebulun, because otherwise the genealogy of Zebulun is missing, and because it is difficult to reconcile the genealogy here with that of chapter 8. This could be the genealogy of Zebulun if he also had a son named Bela, which is not at all impossible, even though Bela is listed elsewhere as the son of Benjamin, but never of Zebulun. See Num 26:26-27, 38-41. If the genealogy of Zebulun is missing, it would be the same case as that of Dan which is missing. However that may be, the emphasis in the two books of the Chronicles is not on the northern tribes but on those which comprised the southern kingdom of Judah – 1 Chron 8:1.⚜
7 📚And the sons of Bela: Ezbon and Uzzi and Uzziel and Jerimoth and Iri, five. They were heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour; and were listed by their genealogies twenty-two thousand and thirty-four. 8 And the sons of Becher: Zemirah and Joash and Eliezer and Elioenai and Omri and Jerimoth and Abiah and Anathoth and Alemeth. All these are the sons of Becher. 9 and their number according to their genealogy by their generations, heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour, was twenty thousand two hundred. 10 📚And the sons of Jediael: Bilhan and the sons of Bilhan: Jeush and Benjamin and Ehud and Chenaanah and Zetan and Tarshish and Ahishahar. 11 📚All these, the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their fathers, mighty men of valour, were seventeen thousand two hundred soldiers, prepared to go out for war and battle. 12 📚Shuppim also and Huppim, the children of Ir, and Hushim, the sons of Aher.
13 📚The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel and Guni and Jezer and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.
14 📚The sons of Manasseh: Ashriel, whom she bore (but his concubine, the Aramitess, bore Machir the father of Gilead. 15 📚And Machir took as wife the sister of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister’s name was Maachah), and the name of the second was Zelophehad. And Zelophehad had daughters. 16 And Maachah, the wife of Machir, bore a son and she called his name Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem. 17 📚And the son of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh. 18 📚And his sister Hammoleketh bore Ishod and Abiezer and Mahalah. 19 And the sons of Shemidah were Ahian and Shechem and Likhi and Aniam.
20 📚And the sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah, and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and Eladah his son, and Tahath his son, 21 and Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath who were born in that land killed, because they came down to take away their livestock. 22 📚And their father Ephraim mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him. 23 📚And when he went in to his wife, she conceived, and bore a son, and he called his name Beriah 📖, because things were going bad with his household. 24 📚And his daughter was Sherah, who built Lower and Upper Beth Horon, and Uzzen Sherah. 25 And Rephah was his son, also Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son, 26 Laadan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son, 27 📚Non his son, Jehoshuah his son.
28 📚And their possessions and habitations were Bethel and its towns, and Naaran on the east, and Gezer on the west, with its towns; Shechem also and its towns, as far as Gaza and its towns; 29 📚and by the borders of the children of Manasseh, Bethshean and its towns, Taanach and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, Dor and its towns. In these the children of Joseph, the son of Israel, lived.
30 📚The sons of Asher: Imnah and Isuah and Ishuai and Beriah and Serah, their sister. 31 And the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel, who is the father of Birzavith. 32 And Heber begot Japhlet and Shomer and Hotham and Shua, their sister. 33 And the sons of Japhlet: Pasach and Bimhal and Ashvath. These are the children of Japhlet. 34 And the sons of Shamer: Ahi and Rohgah, Jehubbah and Aram. 35 And the sons of his brother Helem: Zophah and Imna and Shelesh and Amal. 36 The sons of Zophah: Suah and Harnepher and Shual and Beri and Imrah, 37 Bezer and Hod and Shamma and Shilshah and Ithran and Beera. 38 And the sons of Jether: Jephunneh and Pispah and Ara. 39 And the sons of Ulla: Arah and Haniel and Rezia. 40 📚All these were the children of Asher, heads of their father’s house, choice and mighty men of valour, chief of the leaders. And the number throughout the genealogy of those who were prepared for war and for battle was twenty-six thousand men.