1 Now the sons of Issachar were, Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and
Shimron, four.
2 And
the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, 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.
3 And
the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and
Joel, Ishiah, five: all of them chief men.
4 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.
5 And
their brethren among all the families of Issachar were valiant
men of might, reckoned in all by their genealogies fourscore and seven
thousand.
6 The sons of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and
Jediael, three.
7 And
the sons of Bela; Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri, five;
heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour; and
were reckoned by their genealogies twenty and two thousand and thirty and four.
8 And
the sons of Becher; Zemira, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and
Jerimoth, and Abiah, and Anathoth, and Alameth. All these are the
sons of Becher.
9 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.
10 The
sons also of Jediael; Bilhan: and the sons of Bilhan; Jeush, and Benjamin, and
Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tharshish, and Ahishahar.
11 All
these the sons of Jediael, 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.
12 Shuppim
also, and Huppim, the children of Ir, and Hushim, the sons of Aher.
13 The
sons of Naphtali; Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of
Bilhah.
14 The
sons of Manasseh; Ashriel, whom she bare: (but his
concubine the Aramitess bare Machir the father of Gilead:
15 And
Machir took to wife the sister of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister's
name was Maachah;)
and the name of the second was Zelophehad: and Zelophehad had
daughters.
16 And
Maachah the wife of Machir bare a son, and she called his name Peresh; and the
name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam
and Rakem.
17 And
the sons of Ulam; Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir,
the son of Manasseh.
18 And
his sister Hammoleketh bare Ishod, and Abiezer, and Mahalah.
19 And
the sons of Shemida were, Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam.
20 And
the sons of Ephraim; Shuthelah, and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and
Eladah his son, and Tahath his son,
21 And
Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath that were born
in that land
slew, because they came down to take away their cattle.
22 And
Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.
23 And
when he went in to his wife, she conceived, and bare a son, and he called his
name Beriah, because it went evil with his house.
24 (And
his daughter was Sherah,
who built Bethhoron the nether, and the upper, and Uzzensherah.)
25 And
Rephah was his
son, also Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son,
26 Laadan
his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,
27 Non
his son, Jehoshua his son.
28 And
their possessions and habitations were, Bethel and the towns thereof,
and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with the towns thereof; Shechem also
and the towns thereof, unto Gaza and the towns thereof:
29 And
by the borders of the children of Manasseh, Bethshean and her towns, Taanach
and her towns, Megiddo and her towns, Dor and her towns. In these dwelt the
children of Joseph the son of Israel.
30 The
sons of Asher; Imnah, and Isuah, and Ishuai, and Beriah, and Serah their
sister.
31 And
the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel, who is the father of Birzavith.
32 And
Heber begat Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister.
33 And
the sons of Japhlet; Pasach, and Bimhal, and Ashvath. These are the
children of Japhlet.
34 And
the sons of Shamer; Ahi, and Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.
35 And
the sons of his brother Helem; Zophah, and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal.
36 The
sons 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 sons of Jether; Jephunneh, and Pispah, and Ara.
39 And
the sons of Ulla; Arah, and Haniel, and Rezia.
40 All
these were the
children of Asher, heads of their father's house, choice and mighty
men of valour, 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.
