1 Now the sons of Issachar were Thola, and Phua, Jasub and Simeron, four. 2 The sons of Thola: Ozi and Raphaia, and Jeriel, and Jemai, and Jebsem, and Samuel, chiefs of the houses of their kindreds. Of the posterity of Thola were numbered in the days of David, two and twenty thousand six hundred most valiant men. 3 The sons of Ozi: Izrahia, of whom were born Michael, and Obadia, and Joel, and Jesia, five all great men. 4 And there were with them by their families and peoples, six and thirty thousand most valiant men ready for war: for they had many wives and children. 5 Their brethren also throughout all the house of Issachar, were numbered fourscore and seven thousand most valiant men for war. 6 The sons of Benjamin were Bela, and Bechor, and Jadihel, three. 7 The sons of Bela: Esbon, and Ozi, and Ozial, and Jerimoth and Urai, five chiefs of their families, and most valiant warriors, and their number was twenty-two thousand and thirty-four. 8 And the sons of Bechor were Zamira, and Joas, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Amai, and Jerimoth, and Abia, and Anathoth, and Almath: all these were the sons of Bechor. 9 And they were numbered by the families, heads of their kindreds, most valiant men for war, twenty thousand and two hundred. 10 And the son of Jadihel: Balan. And the sons of Balan: Jehus and Benjamin and Aod, and Chanana, and Zethan and Tharsis, and Ahisahar. 11 All these were sons of Jadihel, heads of their kindreds, most valiant men, seventeen thousand and two hundred fit to go out to war. 12 Sepham also and Hapham the sons of Hir: and Hasim the sons of Aher. 13 And the sons of Nephtali were Jasiel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Sellum, sons of Bala. 14 And the son of Manasses, Ezriel: and his concubine the Syrian bore Machir the father of Galaad. 15 And Machir took wives for his sons Happhim, and Saphan: and he had a sister named Maacha: the name of the second was Salphaad, and Salphaad had daughters. 16 And Maacha the wife of Machir bore a son, and she called his name Phares: and the name of his brother was Sares: and his sons were Ulam and Recen. 17 And the son of Ulam, Baden. These are the sons of Galaad, the son of Machir the son of Manasses. 18 And his sister named Queen bore Goodlyman, and Abiezer, and Mohola. 19 And the sons of Semida were Ahiu, and Sechem, and Leci and Aniam. 20 And the sons of Ephraim were Suthala, Bared his son, Thahath his son, Elada his son, Thahath his son, and his son Zabad, 21 And his son Suthala, and his son Ezer, and Elad: and the men of Geth born in the land slew them, because they came down to invade their possessions. 22 And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him. 23 And he went in to his wife: and she conceived and bore a son, and he called his name Beria, because he was born when it went evil with his house: 24 And his daughter was Sara, who built Bethoron, the nether and the upper, and Ozensara. 25 And Rapha was his son, and Reseph, and Thale, of whom was born Thaan, 26 Who begot Laadan: and his son was Ammiud, who beget Elisama, 27 Of whom was born Nun, who had Josue for his son. 28 And their possessions and habitations were Bethel with her daughters, and eastward Noran, and westward Gazer and her daughters, Sichem also with her daughters, as far as Ass with her daughters. 29 And by the borders of the sons of Manasses Bethsan and her daughters, Thanach and her daughters, Mageddo and her daughters: Dor and her daughters: in these dwelt the children of Joseph, the son of Israel. 30 The children of Aser were Jemna, and Jesua, and Jessui, and Baria, and Sara their sister. 31 And the sons of Baria: Haber, and Melchiel: he is the father of Barsaith. 32 And Heber beget Jephlat, and Somer, and Hotham, and Suaa their sister. 33 The sons of Jephlat: Phosech, and Chamaal, and Asoth: these are the sons of Jephlat. 34 And the sons of Somer: Ahi, and Roaga, and Haba, and Aram. 35 And the sons of Helem his brother: Supha, and Jemna, and Selles, and Amal. 36 The sons of Supha: Sue, Hernapher, and Sual, and Beri, and Jamra. 37 Bosor and Hod, and Samma, and Salusa, and Jethran, and Bera. 38 The sons of Jether: Jephone, and Phaspha, and Ara. 39 And the sons of Olla: Aree, and Haniel, and Resia. 40 All these were sons of Aser, heads of their families, choice and most valiant captains of captains: and the number of them that were of the age that was fit for war, was six and twenty thousand.
1 Chronicles · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
1 Chronicles 7 Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
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Abiezer
Abiezer is listed as a son of Hammolecheth in the children of Hammolecheth (1 Chronicles 7:18).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:18
Aher
Named as the ancestor of the Hushites; the text gives no father for him.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:12
Ahi
Ahi is listed as a son of Shemer in the sons of Shemer (1 Chronicles 7:34).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:34
Amal
Amal is listed as a son of Helem in the sons of Shemer's brother Helem (1 Chronicles 7:35).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:35
Anathoth
Anathoth is listed as a son of Becher in the sons of Becher (1 Chronicles 7:8).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:8
Aniam
Aniam is listed as a son of Shemida in the sons of Shemida (1 Chronicles 7:19).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:19
Ara
Ara is listed as a son of Jether in the sons of Jether (1 Chronicles 7:38).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:38
Aram
Aram is listed as a son of Shemer in the sons of Shemer (1 Chronicles 7:34).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:34
Benjamin
Benjamin is listed as a son of Bilhan in the seven sons of Bilhan (1 Chronicles 7:10).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:10
Beri
Beri is listed as a son of Zophah in the sons of Zophah (1 Chronicles 7:36-37).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:36
Beriah
Asher's fourth-listed son, who went to Egypt with Jacob's household, founded the Beriite clan, and was the father of Heber and Malchiel.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 46:17; Numbers 26:44–45; 1 Chronicles 7:30
Eliezer
Eliezer is listed as a son of Becher in the sons of Becher (1 Chronicles 7:8).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:8
Elioenai
Elioenai is listed as a son of Becher in the sons of Becher (1 Chronicles 7:8).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:8
Ezer
Killed with his brother Elead by the natives of Gath when they went down to steal their livestock.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:21
Guni
Naphtali's second-listed son, who went to Egypt with Jacob's household and founded the Gunite clan.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 46:24; Numbers 26:48; 1 Chronicles 7:13
Hanniel
Hanniel is listed as a son of Ulla in the sons of Ulla (1 Chronicles 7:39).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:39
Heber
Beriah's first-listed son, who went to Egypt with Jacob's household and founded the Heberite clan.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 46:17; Numbers 26:45; 1 Chronicles 7:31
Helem
Brother of Shemer, father of Zophah, Imna, Shelesh and Amal; he is probably the Hotham of 7:32.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:35
Hod
Hod is listed as a son of Zophah in the sons of Zophah (1 Chronicles 7:36-37).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:37
Hotham
Hotham is listed as a son of Heber in the children of Heber (1 Chronicles 7:32).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:32
Jeriel
Jeriel is listed as a son of Tola in the heads of the families of Tola (1 Chronicles 7:2).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:2
Jerimoth
Jerimoth is listed as a son of Bela in the five sons of Bela, heads of their families, with 22,034 mighty men of valor (1 Chronicles 7:7).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:7
Jether
Asherite named as the father of Jephunneh, Pispa and Ara; the text gives no father for him.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:38
Jezer
Naphtali's third-listed son, who went to Egypt with Jacob's household and founded the Jezerite clan.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 46:24; Numbers 26:49; 1 Chronicles 7:13
Joel
Joel is listed as a son of Izrahiah in the sons of Izrahiah, all five of them (with Izrahiah) chiefs (1 Chronicles 7:3).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:3
Ladan
Ladan is listed as the son of Tahan in the line of Ephraim's descendants leading to Joshua (1 Chronicles 7:25-27).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:26
Michael
Michael is listed as a son of Izrahiah in the sons of Izrahiah, all five of them (with Izrahiah) chiefs (1 Chronicles 7:3).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:3
Tola
Issachar's first-listed son, who went to Egypt with Jacob's household and founded the Tolaite clan.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 46:13; Numbers 26:23; 1 Chronicles 7:1
Ulam
Ulam is listed as a son of Sheresh in the sons of Sheresh (1 Chronicles 7:16).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:16
Zabad
Zabad is listed as the son of Tahath in the line of Ephraim's descendants through Shuthelah (1 Chronicles 7:20-21).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:21
Zethan
Zethan is listed as a son of Bilhan in the seven sons of Bilhan (1 Chronicles 7:10).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:10
Cross references (22)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Genesis 46:13; Numbers 26:23–24
- 2 2 Samuel 24:1–9; 1 Chronicles 27:23–24; 1 Chronicles 27:1; 1 Chronicles 21:1–5
- 4 1 Chronicles 12:32
- 6 Genesis 46:21; 1 Chronicles 8:1–40; Numbers 26:38–41; 1 Chronicles 7:10–11
- 7 2 Chronicles 17:17–18; 1 Chronicles 21:1–5
- 10 Judges 3:15–30
- 11 2 Chronicles 17:13–19
- 12 Numbers 26:38–39; Genesis 46:21; 1 Chronicles 7:15
- 13 Numbers 26:48–49; Genesis 35:22; Genesis 46:24–25; Genesis 30:3–8
- 14 Joshua 17:1–3; Deuteronomy 3:13–15; Numbers 32:30–42; Joshua 13:31; Numbers 26:29–34
- 15 Numbers 36:1–12; Numbers 26:33; Numbers 27:1–11
- 17 1 Samuel 12:11
- 18 Judges 6:24; Judges 8:2; Numbers 26:30; Judges 6:34; Judges 6:11
- 20 Numbers 26:35–36
- 22 Genesis 37:34; Job 2:11
- 23 2 Samuel 23:5
- 24 Joshua 16:5; Joshua 16:3; 2 Chronicles 8:5; Joshua 10:10; 1 Kings 9:17
- 27 Numbers 13:16; Deuteronomy 31:23; Numbers 27:18; Exodus 24:13; Numbers 13:8
- 28 Joshua 16:2–3; Judges 1:22; Genesis 28:19; 1 Chronicles 6:66–67
- 29 Judges 1:22–29; Revelation 16:16; 1 Kings 4:12; 1 Samuel 31:10; 2 Kings 23:29
- 30 Genesis 46:17; Numbers 26:44–46
- 40 2 Samuel 24:1–9; 1 Chronicles 21:1–5
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