Open English Translation 1CH Chapter 7

7 Yissaskar’s four sons were Tola, Puah, Yashub, and Shimron. 2 Tola’s sons were Uzzi, Refayah, Yeriel, Yahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel who all became leaders of their clans. There were strong warriors in the record of Tola’s descendants in each generation. (During the time that David was Yisrael’s king, there were 22,600 such men.)

3 Uzzi’s son was Yizrahyah. Yizrahyah’s five sons were Mikael, Ovadyah, Yoel, and Yishiyah. They were all leaders of their clans. 4 Along with them according to their family records, were 36,000 troops in the army, because they had numerous wives and sons. 5 Altogether, Yissaskar’s clans had 87,000 strong warriors listed in their genealogy.

6 Benyamin’s three sons were Bela, Beker, and Yediael. 7 Bela’s five sons were Etsbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Yerimot, and Iri who were leaders of their clans. According to their family records, they had 22,034 strong warriors.

8 Beker’s sons were Zemirah, Yoash, Eliezer, Elyehoenai, Omri, Yeremot, Aviyah, Anatot, and Alemet. 9 Altogether, their clans had 20,200 strong warriors listed in their genealogy.

10 Yediael’s son was Bilhan. Bilhan’s sons were Yeush, Benyamin, Ehud, Kenaanah, Zetan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar. 11 All those descendants of Yediael were clan leaders and strong warriors, having 17,200 men ready to go to war.

12 The Shuppites and Huppites were descendants of Ir, and the Hushites were descendants of Aher.

13 Naftali’s sons were Yahtsiel, Guni, Yetser, and Shallum. (They were descendants of Yakov’s slave wife Bilhah.)

14 Manashsheh had sons by his Syrian (Heb. Aramean) slave wife. She gave birth to Asriel, and Makir (who became the father of Gilead). 15 Makir married a wife from the Huppites and Shuppites. (His sister’s name was Maakah.) Another descendant was Tselofehad and he had daughters. 16 Makir’s wife (also called Maakah) bore a son and named him Peresh (and named his brother Sheresh) and his sons were Ulam and Rakem. 17 Ulam’s son was Bedan. Those were the descendants of Gilead (Makir’s son and Manashsheh’s grandson).

18 Gilead’s sister was Hammoleket. She was the mother of Ishhod, Aviezer, and Mahlah.

19 Another son of Gilead was Shemida, whose sons were Ahyan, Shekem, Likhi, and Aniam.

20 These are Efraim’s descendants:

One son of Efraim was Shutelah. Shutelah’s son was Bered. Bered’s son was Tahat. Tahat’s son was Eleadah. Eleadah’s son was also named Tahat. 21 Tahat’s son was Zavad. Zavad’s son was Shutelah. Efraim’s other sons, Ezer and Elead, went to Gat city to steal some cattle but were killed by some of the natives of that area. 22 Their father Efraim mourned for quite some time, and his relatives came to comfort him. 23 Then he slept with his wife and she got pregnant and gave birth to a son. Efraim named him Beriah (which sounds like the Hebrew word for ‘trouble’), because of the recent tragedy in their family.

24 Efraim’s daughter was Sheerah and she founded three towns: Lower Beyt-Horon, Upper Beyt-Horon, and Uzzen-Sheerah.

25 Another son of Efraim was Refah. Refah’s son was Reshef. Reshef’s son was Telah. Telah’s son was Tahan. 26 Tahan’s son was Ladan. Ladan’s son was Ammihud. Ammihud’s son was Elishama. 27 Elishama’s son was Nun. Nun’s son was Yehoshua (or Joshua, who led the Israelites after Mosheh).

28 This is a list of the cities and areas where Efraim’s descendants lived: Beyt-El and the nearby villages, Naaran to the east, Gezer to the west and the nearby villages, and Shekem and the nearby villages extending north as far as Ayyah and its villages.

29 Along the border of the area where the descendants of Manashsheh lived were these towns: Beyt-Shan, Taanak, Megiddo, Dor, and all the nearby villages. The people who lived in all those places were descendants of Yakov’s son Yosef (Joseph).

30 Asher’s sons were Yimnah, Yishvah, Yishvi, and Beriah. Their sister was Serah.

31 Beriah’s sons were Hever and Malkiel. Malkiel was the father of Birzayit.

32 Heber was the father of Yaflet, Shomer, Hotam, and their sister Shua. 33 Yaflet’s sons were Pasak, Bimhal, and Ashvat.

34 Shomer’s sons were Ahi, Rohgah, Hubbah, and Aram.

35 Shomer’s younger brother was Helem. Helem’s sons were Tsofah, Yimna, Shelesh, and Amal.

36 Zofah’s sons were Suah, Harnefer, Shual, Beri, Yimrah, 37 Betser, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Yitran (whose other name was Yeter), and Beera.

38 Yeter’s sons were Yefunneh, Pispah, and Ara. 39 Another descendant of Asher was Ulla, whose sons were Arah, Hanniel, and Ritsia.

40 All those were Asher’s descendants, clan leaders, chosen, very strong, leaders of leaders. And listed in their genealogy in the army for war, their number, 26,000 men.