1 Chronicles 7
1THE sons of Issachar were Thola and Phua and Jasub and Semeron, four.
2And the sons of Thola were Ozi, Raphaia, and Jeriel and Jamai and Jemason and Samuel, chiefs of the houses of the families of Thola, mighty in power in their respective communities. Their number in the days of David was twenty-two thousand six hundred.
3And the sons of Ozi, Jezraia; and the sons of Jezraia, Michael, Abdiu and Joel and Jesia, five, all chiefs.
4And under them in their respective communities according to the houses of their families, the able-bodied men fit for array in battle, were thirty-six thousand; for they had many wives and children.
5And their brethren comprehending all the families of Issachar, the able-bodied men fit for battle were eighty-seven thousand. This was the number of them all.
6The sons of Benjamin were Bale and Bachir and Jediel, three.
7And the sons of Bale were Esebon and Ozi and Oziel and Jerimuth and Ouri, five, chiefs of houses of families mighty in power, and their number was twenty-two thousand and thirty-four.
8And the sons of Bachir were Zemira and Joas and Eliezar and Elithenan and Amaria and Jerimuth and Abiud and Anathoth and Eleemeth, all these were sons of Bachir,
9and their number according to their several communities, they being chiefs of the houses of their patriarchal families mighty in power, were twenty thousand two hundred.
10And the sons of Jediel were Balaan, and the sons of Balaan, Jaus and Benjamin and Aoth and Chanana and Zaithan and Tharsi and Achisaar.
11All these sons of Jediel being chiefs of their families mighty in power, were seventeen thousand two hundred who went out in the army to war,
12including Sapphin and Apphin and the sons of Or, Asom, and his son Aor.
13And the sons of Nephthaleim were Jasiel, Goni and Aser and Sellum his son and Balam his son.
14And the sons of Manasses were Esriel whom his concubine Syra bore to him, and also Machir, the father of Galaad.
15And Machir took to wife a sister of Apphin and a sister of Sapphin. The sister of the one was named Moocha, and the sister of the other, Sapphaad. And to him by Sapphaad daughters only were born;
16but Moocha, the wife of Machir, bore a son and called his name Phares, and his brother’s name was Sourus. His sons were Oulam and Rokon.
17And the sons of Oulam, Badam. These were of the house of Galaad, son of Machir, son of Manasses.
18And his sister, Malecheth, bore Isud and Abiezer and Maela.
19And the sons of Semira were Aim and Sychem and Lakim and Anian.
20And the sons of Ephraim were Sothalath and Barad his son and Thaath his son, Elada his son, Saath his son,
21and Zabad his son, Sothole his son; and Aser and Elead whom the men of Geth who were born in this land slew, because they went down to take their cattle.
22Whereupon Ephraim their father mourned many days. But when his brethren came to comfort him,
23he went in unto his wife, and she conceived and bore him a son, and he called his name Beria, Because, said he, he was born during the calamities in my house.
24And his daughter was Saraa, who formed a family among them who were left, and it built the upper and lower Baithoron. And the descendants of Ozan were Seera
25and Raphe his son; Saraph and Thaleas, his sons; Thaen, his son;
26and of his son Laadon, Amiud, his son Elisamai,
27his son Nun, his son Jesue were his sons.
28Now their possession and their dwelling was Baithel and its villages, eastward Nearan, and westward Gazer and its villages, and Sychem with its villages even to Gaza, and the villages thereof,
29and in the borders of the children of Manasses, Bethsan and its villages, Thanach and its villages, Mageddo and its villages, Dor and its villages. In this dwelt the children of Joseph son of Israel.
30The sons of Aser were Jemna and Suia and Isai and Beria with Sore their sister.
31And the sons of Beria were Chaber and Melchiel who was the father of Berthaith.
32And Chaber begot Japhlet and Samer and Chothan and Sola their sister.
33And the sons of Japhlet were Phasek and Bamael and Asith. These were sons of Japhlet.
34And the sons of Semmer were Achir and Rooga and Jaba and Aram and Baneelam.
35His brother’s sons were Sopha and Imana and Selles and Amal.
36The sons of Sopha were Sue and Arnaphar and Suda and Barin and Imram
37and Basan and Oa and Sama and Salisa and Jethra and Beera.
38And the sons of Jether were Jephina and Phaspha and Ara.
39And the sons of Ola, Orech, Aniel and Rasia.
40All these were sons of Aser, all chiefs of families, chosen men mighty in power, chief leaders. The number of them fit for the array of battle was twenty-six thousand men.