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Text -- 1 Chronicles 7:1-36 (NET)
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Issachar’s Descendants
7:1 The sons of Issachar : Tola , Puah , Jashub , and Shimron – four in all.
7:2 The sons of Tola : Uzzi , Rephaiah , Jeriel , Jahmai , Jibsam , and Samuel . They were leaders of their families . In the time of David there were 22,600 warriors listed in Tola’s genealogical records .
7:3 The son of Uzzi : Izrachiah . The sons of Izrahiah : Michael , Obadiah , Joel , and Isshiah . All five were leaders .
7:4 According to the genealogical records of their families , they had 36,000 warriors available for battle , for they had numerous wives and sons .
7:5 Altogether the genealogical records of the clans of Issachar listed 87,000 warriors .
Benjamin’s Descendants
7:6 The sons of Benjamin : Bela , Beker , and Jediael – three in all.
7:7 The sons of Bela : Ezbon , Uzzi , Uzziel , Jerimoth , and Iri . The five of them were leaders of their families . There were 22,034 warriors listed in their genealogical records .
7:8 The sons of Beker : Zemirah , Joash , Eliezer , Elioenai , Omri , Jeremoth , Abijah , Anathoth , and Alameth . All these were the sons of Beker .
7:9 There were 20,200 family leaders and warriors listed in their genealogical records .
7:10 The son of Jediael : Bilhan . The sons of Bilhan : Jeush , Benjamin , Ehud , Kenaanah , Zethan , Tarshish , and Ahishahar .
7:11 All these were the sons of Jediael . Listed in their genealogical records were 17,200 family leaders and warriors who were capable of marching out to battle .
7:12 The Shuppites and Huppites were descendants of Ir ; the Hushites were descendants of Aher .
Naphtali’s Descendants
7:13 The sons of Naphtali : Jahziel , Guni , Jezer , and Shallum – sons of Bilhah .
Manasseh’s Descendants
7:14 The sons of Manasseh : Asriel , who was born to Manasseh’s Aramean concubine . She also gave birth to Makir the father of Gilead .
7:15 Now Makir married a wife from the Huppites and Shuppites . (His sister’s name was Maacah .) Zelophehad was Manasseh’s second son; he had only daughters .
7:16 Maacah , Makir’s wife , gave birth to a son , whom she named Peresh . His brother was Sheresh , and his sons were Ulam and Rekem .
7:17 The son of Ulam : Bedan . These were the sons of Gilead , son of Makir , son of Manasseh .
7:18 His sister Hammoleketh gave birth to Ishhod , Abiezer , and Mahlah .
7:19 The sons of Shemida were Ahian , Shechem , Likhi , and Aniam .
Ephraim’s Descendants
7:20 The descendants of Ephraim : Shuthelah , his son Bered , his son Tahath , his son Eleadah , his son Tahath ,
7:21 his son Zabad , his son Shuthelah (Ezer and Elead were killed by the men of Gath , who were natives of the land , when they went down to steal their cattle .
7:22 Their father Ephraim mourned for them many days and his brothers came to console him.
7:23 He had sexual relations with his wife ; she became pregnant and gave birth to a son . Ephraim named him Beriah because tragedy had come to his family .
7:24 His daughter was Sheerah , who built Lower and Upper Beth Horon , as well as Uzzen Sheerah ),
7:25 his son Rephah , his son Resheph , his son Telah , his son Tahan ,
7:26 his son Ladan , his son Ammihud , his son Elishama ,
7:27 his son Nun , and his son Joshua .
7:28 Their property and settlements included Bethel and its surrounding towns , Naaran to the east , Gezer and its surrounding towns to the west , and Shechem and its surrounding towns as far as Ayyah and its surrounding towns .
7:29 On the border of Manasseh’s territory were Beth-Shean and its surrounding towns , Taanach and its surrounding towns , Megiddo and its surrounding towns , and Dor and its surrounding towns . The descendants of Joseph , Israel’s son , lived here.
Asher’s Descendants
7:30 The sons of Asher : Imnah , Ishvah , Ishvi , and Beriah . Serah was their sister .
7:31 The sons of Beriah : Heber and Malkiel , who was the father of Birzaith .
7:32 Heber was the father of Japhlet , Shomer , Hotham , and Shua their sister .
7:33 The sons of Japhlet : Pasach , Bimhal , and Ashvath . These were Japhlet’s sons .
7:34 The sons of his brother Shemer : Rohgah , Hubbah , and Aram .
7:35 The sons of his brother Helem : Zophah , Imna , Shelesh , and Amal .
7:36 The sons of Zophah : Suah , Harnepher , Shual , Beri , Imrah ,
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NET Notes: 1Ch 7:2 Heb “to Tola [there were] warriors by their generations, their number in the days of David [was] 22,600.”
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NET Notes: 1Ch 7:4 Heb “and unto them by their generations to the house of their fathers [were] troops of war of battle, 36,000, for they had many wives and sons.&...
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NET Notes: 1Ch 7:5 Heb “and their brothers, according to all the clans of Issachar, the warriors [were] 87,000 listed in the genealogical records for all.”
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NET Notes: 1Ch 7:6 The Hebrew text has simply “Benjamin,” but בְּנֵי (bÿney, “sons of”) has dropped out ...
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NET Notes: 1Ch 7:13 Most Hebrew mss read “Shallum”; some Hebrew mss and some LXX mss read “Shillem,” the form of the name that appears in Gen 46:2...
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NET Notes: 1Ch 7:23 Heb “because in tragedy there had come to his house.” The preposition prefixed to רָעָה (ra’ah) should...
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NET Notes: 1Ch 7:25 The Hebrew text has simply “Resheph,” but the phrase “his son” has probably been accidentally omitted, since the names before ...
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NET Notes: 1Ch 7:27 Heb “Non” (so KJV, NASB; cf. Exod 33:11, where the more familiar spelling “Nun” occurs).
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NET Notes: 1Ch 7:34 “Hubbah” is the marginal reading (Qere); the consonantal text (Kethib) has “Jachbah.”
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