1 Chronicles

THE OTHER TRIBES

Descendants of Issachar

Issachar had four sons: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron.

Tola had six sons: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel. They were the heads of families in the clan of Tola and renowned warriors. During the time of David, the number of descendants was ,. Uzzi had one son, Rephaiah.

Rephaiah had four sons: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah. All five were chiefs,

of whom were obliged to enlist their troops: , men, for they had many wives and children.

The family records of all the Issachar clans listed , men able to give military service.

Descendants of Benjamin

Benjamin had three sons: Bela, Becher, and Jediael.

Bela had five sons: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri. They were heads of families in the clan and famous warriors. Their family records listed , men able to give military service.

Becher had nine sons: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth.

Their family records listed , men who were eligible for military service. Shuppin and Huppin also belonged to this tribe.

Jediael had one son, Bilhan, who had seven sons: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar.

They were heads of families in the clan and famous warriors, , ready for service in the war.

Shupham and Hupham were the sons of Ir, and Hushim was the son of Aher.

Descendants of Naphtali

Naphtali had four sons: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum. They were descendants of Bilhah.

Descendants of the Other Half of Manasseh

Manasseh had Asriel by his Aramean concubine. She also gave birth to Machir, the father of Gilead.

Now Machir married a wife from the Huppites and the Shuppites. (His sister’s name was Maacah.) Zelophehad was Manasseh’s second son; he only had daughters.

Maacah, the wife of Machir, gave birth to two sons, whom they named Peresh and Sheresh. Peresh had two sons: Ulam and Rakem.

Ulam had a son named Bedan. These were Gilead’s descendants, Machir’s son and grandson of Manasseh:

Gilead’s sister, Molecheth, had three sons: Ishhod, Abiezer, and Mahlah.

Shemida had four sons: Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam.

Descendants of Ephraim

These are the descendants of Ephraim from one generation to the next: Shuthelah, Bered, Tahath, Eleadah, Tahath,

Zabad, Shuthelah. Ephraim’s two other sons, Ezer and Elead, were killed when they tried to steal the cattle belonging to the people of Gath.

Ephraim, their father, mourned for them for a long time, and his brothers came to comfort him.

Then Ephraim went to his wife, who conceived and gave birth to a son whom she called Beriah because of the trouble that had come to their family.

Beriah’s daughter, Sheerah, built Lower and Upper Beth-horon and Uzzen-sheerah.Ephraim also had a son named Rephah. The descendants of

Rephah were as follows: Resheph, Telah, Tahan,

Ladan, Ammihud, Elishama,

Nun, Joshua.

They had lands and settlements in Bethel and its towns; in Naaran to the east; in Gezer, and its cities to the west; Shechem and its towns, as far as Ayyah and its cities.

Beth-shean, Taanach, Megiddo, and Dor, each with its towns, were controlled by the descendants of Manasseh. In all these places, the descendants of Joseph, son of Jacob, lived.

Descendants of Asher

Asher had four sons: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and Beriah, and one daughter, Serah.

Sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel. Malchiel was the father of Birzaith.

Heber had three sons, Japhlet, Shomer, and Hotham, and one daughter, Shura.

Japhlet had three sons: Pasah, Bimhal, and Ashvath.

His brother Shomer also had three sons: Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.

His brother Hotham had four sons: Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal.

The sons of Zophah were Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri, and Imrah,

Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran, and Beera.

The sons of Jether: Jephunneh, Pispa, and Ara.

The sons of Ulla, Arah, Hanniel, and Rizia,

were descendants of Asher. They were heads of families and famous warriors. Asher’s descendants included , men who were eligible to serve in the military.