Chapter 7 Now the sons of Issachar were Tola and Pewah, Jashub and Shimron four,
and the sons of Tola, Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jireel, and Jarmai, and Jibsam,
and Shemuel, heads of their father's house, to wit, of Tola.
They were valiant men of might in their generations, whose number was in the days
of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred.
And the sons of Uzzi, Israhiah, and the sons of Israhiah, Michael,
and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five, all of them chief men.
And with them, by their generations, after the house of their fathers,
were bands of soldiers for war, six and thirty thousand men, for they had
many wives and sons.
And their brethren among all the families of Issachar were valiant men of might,
reckoned in all by their genealogies, fourscore and seven thousand.
The sons of Benjamin, Bela, and Bekah, and Judahiel, three.
And the sons of Bela, Esbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jeremoth, and Irai,
five, heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour, were reckoned by
their genealogies, twenty and two thousand, and thirty and four.
And the sons of Bekah, Zemairah, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioinai,
and Omri, and Jeremoth, and Abiah, and Anathoth, and Alamoth, all these are
the sons of Bekah.
And the number of them, after their genealogy, by their generations,
heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour, was twenty thousand
and two hundred.
The sons also of Judahiel, Bilhan, and the sons of Bilhan, Jiosh,
and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Canaanah, and Zethan, and Tharshish, and Ahishahar,
all these the sons of Judahiel, by the heads of their fathers,
mighty men of valour, were seventeen thousand and two hundred soldiers,
fit to go out for war and battle.
Shuppim also, and Huppim, the children of Ir, and Hushim, the sons of Eher.
The sons of Naphtali, Jaziel, and Gunai, and Jizah, and Shalom, the sons of Bilhah.
The sons of Manasseh, Asheriel, whom she bear, but his concubine,
the Arimatis, bear Mekiah, the father of Gilead.
And Mekiah took to wife the sister of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister's name
was Maechah, and the name of the second was Zelophehad, and Zelophehad had
daughters.
And Maechah, the wife of Maechah, bear a son, and she called his name
Pirish, and the name of his brother was Shirish, and his sons were Ulam and Rakem,
and the sons of Ulam, Bedan.
These were the sons of Gilead, the son of Maechah, the son of Manasseh,
and his sister Amaleketh, bear Ishod, and Abiezer, and Mahalah.
And the sons of Shemidah were Ahion, and Shechem, and Lichai, and Anayim.
And the sons of Ephraim, Shuthalah and Berid his son, and Tehath his son,
and Eladah his son, and Tehath his son, and Zebad his son, and Shuthalah his son,
and Ezer, and Eliad, whom the men of Gath that were born in that land slew,
because they came down to take away their cattle.
And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort
him.
And when he went into his wife, she conceived, and bear a son,
and he called his name Beriah, because it went evil with his house.
And his daughter was Shira, who built Bethhoran the nether, and the upper,
and Uzzen-Shira.
And Repha was his son, also Resheph, and Tila his son, and Tehan his son,
Laodan his son, Amaihud his son, Elishema his son, Non his son,
Jehoshua his son.
And their possessions and habitations were Bethel and the towns thereof, and eastward
Naaran, and westward Geza with the towns thereof, Shechem also and the towns
thereof, Antegeza and the towns thereof, and by the borders of the children of
Manasseh, Bethshean and her towns, Teanach and her towns, Megiddo and her
towns, Dor and her towns, in these dwelt the children of Joseph the son of Israel,
the sons of Asher, Imnah and Ishuah, and Ishuai, and Beriah, and Sira their
sister, and the sons of Beriah, Heber, and Malchiel, who was the father of
Bezaveth, and Heber beget Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shuah their
sister, and the sons of Japhlet, Pesach, and Bimhol, and Ashfath,
these are the children of Japhlet, and the sons of Shema, Ahai, and Rogah,
Jehovah, and Arum, and the sons of his brother Helim, Zophar, and Imnah,
and Shelish, and Amor, the sons of Zophar, Shuah, and Hanephah, and Shuul,
and Beriah, and Imrah, Bezah, and Hod, and Shammah, and Shilshah, and Ithran,
and Be'erah, and the sons of Jethah, Jephonah, and Pisbah, and Ereh,
and the sons of Ullah, Ereh, and Haniel, and Reziah, all these were the children of
Asher, heads of their father's house, choice and mighty men of valor,
chief of the princes, and the number throughout the genealogy of them that were
apt to the war and to battle was twenty and six thousand men.