The Lantern

I Chronicles7

The Descendants of Issachar

And the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron — four.

And the sons of Tola: Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Ibsam, and Shemuel — heads of the houses of their fathers, of Tola, mighty men of valor by their generations. Their number in the days of David: twenty-two thousand six hundred.

And the sons of Uzzi: Izrahiah. And the sons of Izrahiah: Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Isshiah — five; all of them heads.

And with them, by their generations, by the houses of their fathers, were raiding bands of the army for war: thirty-six thousand — for they had many wives and sons.

And their brothers, of all the families of Issachar, mighty men of valor: eighty-seven thousand, enrolled in the genealogy, all of them.

The Descendants of Benjamin

Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Jediael — three.

And the sons of Bela: Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri — five; heads of the houses of their fathers, mighty men of valor; and enrolled in the genealogy: twenty-two thousand and thirty-four.

And the sons of Becher: Zemirah, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jeremoth, and Abijah, and Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher.

And enrolled in the genealogy, by their generations, heads of the houses of their fathers, mighty men of valor: twenty thousand two hundred.

And the sons of Jediael: Bilhan. And the sons of Bilhan: Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tarshish, and Ahishahar.

All these were sons of Jediael, by the heads of the fathers, mighty men of valor: seventeen thousand two hundred, going out in the army for war.

And Shuppim, and Huppim, the sons of Ir; Hushim, the sons of Aher.

The Descendants of Naphtali

The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum — the sons of Bilhah.

The Descendants of Manasseh

The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom she bore — his Aramean concubine bore Machir, the father of Gilead.

And Machir took a wife for Huppim and for Shuppim; and the name of his sister was Maacah. And the name of the second was Zelophehad; and Zelophehad had daughters.

And Maacah, 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 Rekem.

And the sons of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.

And his sister Hammolecheth bore Ishhod, and Abiezer, and Mahlah.

And the sons of Shemida were: Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam.

The Descendants of Ephraim

And the sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah, and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and Eleadah his son, and Tahath his son,

and Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son — and Ezer, and Elead; and the men of Gath who were born in the land killed them, because they came down to take their livestock.

And Ephraim their father mourned many days; and his brothers came to comfort him.

And he went in to his wife, and she conceived and bore a son; and he called his name Beriah, because evil had come upon his house.

And his daughter was Sheerah; and she built Lower and Upper Beth-horon, and Uzzen-sheerah.

And Rephah was his son, and Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son,

Ladan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,

Non his son, Joshua his son.

And their possession and their dwellings: Bethel and its daughter-towns; and eastward, Naaran; and westward, Gezer and its daughter-towns; and Shechem and its daughter-towns, as far as Ayyah and its daughter-towns;

and along the hands of the sons of Manasseh: Beth-shean and its daughter-towns, Taanach and its daughter-towns, Megiddo and its daughter-towns, Dor and its daughter-towns. In these lived the sons of Joseph, the son of Israel.

The Descendants of Asher

The sons of Asher: Imnah, and Ishvah, and Ishvi, and Beriah; and Serah was their sister.

And the sons of Beriah: Heber, and Malchiel — he was the father of Birzaith.

And Heber fathered Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham; and Shua was their sister.

And the sons of Japhlet: Pasach, and Bimhal, and Ashvath. These were the sons of Japhlet.

And the sons of Shemer: Ahi, and Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.

And the sons of Helem his brother: Zophah, and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal.

The sons of Zophah: Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah,

Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera.

And the sons of Jether: Jephunneh, and Pispa, and Ara.

And the sons of Ulla: Arah, and Hanniel, and Rizia.

All these were sons of Asher, heads of the houses of the fathers, choice men, mighty men of valor, heads of the leaders. And their enrollment in the genealogy, for the army, for war — their number: twenty-six thousand men.