CHAPTER 7
The sons
of Tola:
Uzzi,
Rephaiah,
Jeriel,
Jahmai,
Ibsam,
and Shemuel,
the heads
of their families.
In the days
of David,
22,600
descendants of Tola
were numbered
in their genealogies
as mighty warriors.
The son
of Uzzi:
Izrahiah.
The sons
of Izrahiah:
Michael,
Obadiah,
Joel,
and Isshiah.
All
five
of them were chiefs.
In addition to them,
according to their genealogy,
they had 36,000
troops
for battle,
for
they had many
wives
and children.
Their kinsmen
belonging to all
the families
of Issachar
who were mighty warriors
totaled
87,000,
as listed in their genealogies.
The sons
of Bela:
Ezbon,
Uzzi,
Uzziel,
Jerimoth,
and Iri,
heads
of their families—
five in all.
There were 22,034
mighty warriors
listed in their genealogies.
The sons
of Becher:
Zemirah,
Joash,
Eliezer,
Elioenai,
Omri,
Jeremoth,
Abijah,
Anathoth,
and Alemeth;
all
these
were Becher’s
sons.
The son
of Jediael:
Bilhan.
The sons
of Bilhan:
Jeush,
Benjamin,
Ehud,
Chenaanah,
Zethan,
Tarshish,
and Ahishahar.
All
these
sons
of Jediael
were heads
of their families,
mighty warriors;
there were 17,200
fit
for battle.
The descendants
of Manasseh:
Through his Aramean
concubine,
Asriel,
as well as Machir
the father
of Gilead.
Machir
took
a wife
from among the Huppites
and Shuppites.
The name
of his sister
was Maacah.
Another
descendant was named
Zelophehad,
who had
only daughters.
Machir’s
wife
Maacah
gave birth to
a son,
and she named
him Peresh.
His brother
was named
Sheresh,
and his sons
were Ulam
and Rekem.
The descendants
of Ephraim:
Shuthelah,
Bered
his son,
Tahath
his son,
Eleadah
his son,
Tahath
his son,
Zabad
his son,
and Shuthelah
his son.
Ezer
and Elead
were killed
by the natives
of Gath,
because
they went down
to steal
their livestock.
And again he slept with
his wife,
and she conceived
and gave birth to
a son.
So he named
him Beriah,
because
tragedy
had come
upon his house.
Their holdings
and settlements
included
Bethel
and its villages,
Naaran
to the east,
Gezer
and its villages
to the west,
and Shechem
and its villages
as far as
Ayyah
and its villages.
And along
the borders
of Manasseh
were
Beth-shean,
Taanach,
Megiddo,
and Dor,
together with their villages.
The descendants
of Joseph
son
of Israel
lived
in these towns.
All
these
were the descendants
of Asher—
heads
of their families,
choice
mighty warriors,
and chiefs
among the leaders.
The number
of men
fit for battle,
recorded in their genealogies,
was 26,000.