1 And the sonnes of Issachar were Tola and Puah, Iashub, and Shimron, foure, 2 And the sonnes of Tola, Vzzi, and Rephaiah, and Ieriel, and Iahmai, and Iibsam, and Shemuel, heads in the housholdes of their fathers. Of Tola were valiant men of warre in their generations, whose nomber was in the dayes of Dauid two and twentie thousand, and sixe hundreth. 3 And the sonne of Vzzi was Izrahaiah, and the sonnes of Izrahaiah, Michael, and Obadiah, and Ioel, and Isshiah, fiue men all princes. 4 And with them in their generations after the houshold of their fathers were bandes of men of warre for battel, sixe and thirtie thousand: for they had many wiues and children. 5 And their brethren among all the families of Issachar were valiant men of warre, rekoned in all by their genealogies foure score and seuen thousand. 6 The sonnes of Beniamin were Bela, and Becher, and Iediael, three. 7 And the sonnes of Bela, Ezbon, and Vzzi, and Vzziel, and Ierimoth, and Iri, fiue heads of the housholds of their fathers, valiant men of warre, and were rekoned by their genealogies, two and twentie thousand and thirtie and foure. 8 And the sonnes of Becher, Zemirah, and Ioash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Ierimoth, and Abiah, and Anathoth, and Alameth: all these were the sonnes of Becher. 9 And they were nombred by their genealogies according to their generations, and the chiefe of the houses of their fathers, valiant men of warre, twenty thousand and two hundreth. 10 And the sonne of Iediael was Bilhan, and the sonnes of Bilhan, Ieush, and Beniamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tharshish, and Ahishahar. 11 All these were the sonnes of Iediael, chiefe of the fathers, valiant men of warre, seuenteene thousand and two hundreth, marching in battel aray to the warre. 12 And Shuppim, and Huppim were ye sonnes of Ir, but Hushim was the sonne of another. 13 The sonnes of Naphtali, Iahziel, and Guni, and Iezer, and Shallum of the sonnes of Bilhah. 14 The sonne of Manasseh was Ashriel whom she bare vnto him, but his concubine of Aram bare Machir the father of Gilead. 15 And Machir tooke to wife the sister of Huppim and Shuppim, and the name of their sister was Maachah. And the name of the second sonne was Zelophehad, and Zelophehad had daughters. 16 And Maachah the wife of Machir bare a sonne, and called his name Peresh, and the name of his brother was Sheresh: and his sonnes were Vlam and Rakem. 17 And the sonne of Vlam was Bedan. These were the sonnes of Gilead the sonne of Machir, the sonne of Manasseh. 18 And his sister Molecheth bare Ishod, and Abiezer, and Mahalah. 19 And the sonnes of Shemida were Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam. 20 The sonnes also of Ephraim were Shuthelah, and Bered his sonne, and Tahath his sonne, and his sonne Eladah, and Tahath his sonne, 21 And Zabad his sonne, and Shuthelah his sonne, and Ezer, and Elead: and the men of Gath that were borne in the land, slewe them, because they came downe to take away their cattel. 22 Therefore Ephraim their father mourned many dayes, and his brethren came to comfort him. 23 And when he went in to his wife, she conceiued, and bare him a sonne, and he called his name Beriah, because affliction was in his house. 24 And his daughter was Sherah, which built Beth-horon the nether, and the vpper, and Vzzen Sheerah. 25 And Rephah was his sonne, and Resheph, and Telah his sonne, and Tahan his sonne, 26 Laadan his sonne, Ammihud his sonne, Elishama his sonne, 27 Non his sonne, Iehoshua his sonne. 28 And their possessions and their habitations were Beth-el, and the villages thereof, and Eastward Naaran, and Westwarde Gezer with the villages thereof, Shechem also and the villages thereof, vnto Azzah, and the villages thereof, 29 And by the places of the children of Manasseh, Beth-shean and her villages, Taanach and her villages, Megiddo and her villages, Dor and her villages. In those dwelt the children of Ioseph the sonne of Israel. 30 The sonnes of Asher were Imnah, and Isuah, and Ishuai, and Beriah, and Serah their sister. 31 And the sonnes of Beriah, Heber, and Malchiel, which is the father of Birzauith. 32 And Heber begate Iaphlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shuah their sister. 33 And the sonnes of Iaphlet were Pasach, and Bimhal, and Ashuath: these were the children of Iaphlet. 34 And the sonnes of Shamer, Ahi, and Rohgah, Iehubbah, and Aram. 35 And the sonnes of his brother Helem were Zophah, and Iimna, and Shelesh and Amal. 36 The sonnes 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 sonnes of Iether, Iephunneh, and Pispa and Ara. 39 And the sonnes of Vlla, Harah, and Haniel, and Rizia. 40 All these were the children of Asher, the heads of their fathers houses, noble men, valiant men of warre and chiefe princes, and they were rekoned by their genealogies for warre and for battell to the nomber of sixe and twentie thousand men.
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- Original 16th-century spelling.
People & places in this chapter
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People
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
Abijah
Abijah is listed as a son of Becher in the sons of Becher (1 Chronicles 7:8).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:8
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
Ahian
Ahian is listed as a son of Shemida in the sons of Shemida (1 Chronicles 7:19).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:19
Ahishahar
Ahishahar 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
Alemeth
Alemeth is listed as a son of Becher in the sons of Becher (1 Chronicles 7:8).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:8
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
Ammihud
Son of Ladan in Ephraim's line and father of Elishama, the Ephraimite leader in the wilderness, whose grandson was Joshua (1 Chronicles 7:26-27).
Cited in the guide: Numbers 1:10; Numbers 2:18; 1 Chronicles 7:26
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
Asriel
Descendant of Manasseh, named with Machir as born through Manasseh's Aramean concubine.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:14
Becher
Benjamin's second-listed son, who went to Egypt with Jacob's household.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 46:21; 1 Chronicles 7:6
Bedan
Bedan is listed as a son of Ulam in the descendants of Gilead son of Machir son of Manasseh (1 Chronicles 7:17).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:17
Beera
Beera 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
Bered
Bered is listed as the son of Shuthelah in the line of Ephraim's descendants through Shuthelah (1 Chronicles 7:20-21).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:20
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
Beriah
Son born to Ephraim after the death of Ezer and Elead, named Beriah because tragedy had come upon his house.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:23
Bezer
Bezer 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
Bilhan
Son of Jediael and father of seven sons, who with his kinsmen were heads of families and mighty men of valor.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:10
Bimhal
Bimhal is listed as a son of Japhlet in the sons of Japhlet (1 Chronicles 7:33).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:33
Chenaanah
Chenaanah 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
Ehud
Ehud 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
Elead
Killed with his brother Ezer by the natives of Gath when they went down to steal their livestock.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:21
Eleadah
Eleadah 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 7:20
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
Ezbon
Ezbon 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
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
Harnepher
Harnepher 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
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
Imnah
Asher's first-listed son, who went to Egypt with Jacob's household and founded the Imnite clan.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 46:17; Numbers 26:44; 1 Chronicles 7:30
Imrah
Imrah 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
Ir
Named as the ancestor of the Shuppites and Huppites; the text gives no father for him.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:12
Iri
Iri 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
Ishhod
Ishhod is listed as a son of Hammolecheth in the children of Hammolecheth (1 Chronicles 7:18).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:18
Isshiah
Isshiah 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
Ithran
Ithran 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
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
Likhi
Likhi is listed as a son of Shemida in the sons of Shemida (1 Chronicles 7:19).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:19
Mahlah
Listed among the children of Hammolecheth, Gilead's sister (the text does not state the child's sex).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:18
Malchiel
Beriah's second-listed son, who went to Egypt with Jacob's household and founded the Malchielite clan.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 46:17; Numbers 26:45; 1 Chronicles 7:31
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
Obadiah
Obadiah 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
Omri
Omri is listed as a son of Becher in the sons of Becher (1 Chronicles 7:8).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:8
Pasach
Pasach is listed as a son of Japhlet in the sons of Japhlet (1 Chronicles 7:33).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:33
Peresh
Son born to Machir's wife Maacah, who named him Peresh.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:16
Pispa
Pispa is listed as a son of Jether in the sons of Jether (1 Chronicles 7:38).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:38
Rephah
Named as "his son" in the line after Beriah, the first of the names leading down to Joshua.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:25
Rephaiah
Rephaiah 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
Resheph
Resheph is listed as the son of Rephah in the line of Ephraim's descendants leading to Joshua (1 Chronicles 7:25-27).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:25
Rizia
Rizia is listed as a son of Ulla in the sons of Ulla (1 Chronicles 7:39).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:39
Rohgah
Rohgah is listed as a son of Shemer in the sons of Shemer (1 Chronicles 7:34).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:34
Serah
Asher's daughter, the only sister named among the sons of Asher who went to Egypt with Jacob's household.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 46:17; Numbers 26:46; 1 Chronicles 7:30
Shallum
Shallum is listed as a son of Naphtali in the sons of Naphtali, the descendants of Bilhah (1 Chronicles 7:13).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:13
Shamma
Shamma 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
Shechem
Shechem is listed as a son of Shemida in the sons of Shemida (1 Chronicles 7:19).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:19
Sheerah
A woman called "his daughter" (of Ephraim or of Beriah; the Hebrew is not clear) who built Lower and Upper Beth-horon and Uzzen-sheerah.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:24
Shelesh
Shelesh 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
Shemer
Asherite whose four sons (Ahi, Rohgah, Hubbah and Aram) are listed and whose brother was Helem; he is probably the Shomer of 7:32.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:34
Shemida
A son of Gilead and the founder of the Shemidaite clan of Manasseh.
Cited in the guide: Numbers 26:32; Joshua 17:2; 1 Chronicles 7:19
Shemuel
Shemuel 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
Sheresh
Peresh's brother; the clause that follows names Ulam and Rekem as "his sons" (most naturally Sheresh's).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:16
Shilshah
Shilshah 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
Shimron
Issachar's fourth-listed son, who went to Egypt with Jacob's household and founded the Shimronite clan.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 46:13; Numbers 26:24; 1 Chronicles 7:1
Shomer
Shomer is listed as a son of Heber in the children of Heber (1 Chronicles 7:32).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:32
Shual
Shual 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
Shuthelah
A son of Ephraim and the founder of the Shuthelahite clan, whose descendant Eran founded the Eranite clan.
Cited in the guide: Numbers 26:35–36; 1 Chronicles 7:20
Shuthelah
Shuthelah is listed as the son of Zabad in the line of Ephraim's descendants through Shuthelah (1 Chronicles 7:20-21).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:21
Suah
Suah 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
Tahan
Tahan is listed as the son of Telah in the line of Ephraim's descendants leading to Joshua (1 Chronicles 7:25-27).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:25
Tahath
Tahath is listed as the son of Bered in the line of Ephraim's descendants through Shuthelah (1 Chronicles 7:20-21).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:20
Tahath
Tahath is listed as the son of Eleadah in the line of Ephraim's descendants through Shuthelah (1 Chronicles 7:20-21).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:20
Telah
Telah is listed as the son of Resheph in the line of Ephraim's descendants leading to Joshua (1 Chronicles 7:25-27).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:25
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
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
Zemirah
Zemirah is listed as a son of Becher in the sons of Becher (1 Chronicles 7:8).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 7:8
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
Zophah
Zophah 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
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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