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sons of Issachar:
Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron—four.
2 The sons of Tola:
Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, the heads of their ancestral houses.
During the reign of David, the descendants of Tola recorded as warriors in their genealogy numbered 22,600.
3 The son of Uzzi:
Izrahiah.
The sons of Izrahiah:
Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah—five. All of them were chiefs. 4 Along with them, according to the records of their family genealogies, they had 36,000 men ready for battle, for they had many wives and sons. 5 Their fellow tribesmen who were warriors belonging to all the clans of Issachar, as registered by genealogy, were 87,000 in all.
6 Of Benjamin:
Bela, Becher, and Jediael—three.
7 The sons of Bela:
Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri—five. They were warriors and the heads of their ancestral houses; 22,034 were recorded in their genealogies.
8 The sons of Becher:
Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher. 9 Their genealogical records list them as the heads of their ancestral houses and 20,200 warriors.
10 The son of Jediael:
Bilhan.
The sons of Bilhan:
Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar. 11 All the sons of Jediael were the heads of their ancestral houses. There were 17,200 warriors, ready for battle.
12 Shuppim and Huppim were sons of Ir, and the Hushim were the sons of Aher.
13 The sons of Naphtali:
Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum—the sons of Bilhah.
14 The descendants of Manasseh:
Asriel, who was born to his Aramean concubine. She gave birth to Machir the father of Gilead. 15 Machir took wives from the Huppim and Shuppim. His sister’s name was Maacah. The name of the second was Zelophehad; and Zelophehad had daughters.
16 Maacah the wife of Machir gave birth to a son and named Peresh. His brother was named Sheresh, and his sons were named Ulam and Rekem.
17 The son of Ulam:
Bedan.
These were the sons of Gilead son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.
18 His sister Hammolecheth gave birth to Ishhod, Abiezer, and Mahlah.
19 The sons of Shemida:
Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam.
20 The descendants of Ephraim:
Shuthelah, Bered his son,
Tahath his son, Eleadah his son,
Tahath his son, 21 Zabad his son,
Shuthelah his son, and Ezer and Elead.
The men of Gath who were born in the land killed Ezer and Elead when they went down to seize their cattle. 22 Their father Ephraim mourned many days, and his relatives came to comfort him. 23 Then he went in to his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. So he named him Beriah, because there had been misfortune in his family. 24 His daughter was Sheerah, who built Lower and Upper Beth-horon, and Uzzen-sheerah.
25 Rephah was his son, Resheph his son,
Telah his son, Tahan his son,
26 Ladan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,
27 Nun his son, and Joshua his son.
28 Their possessions and settlements were Bethel with 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; 29 and along the borders of the sons of Manasseh, Beth-shean and its villages, Taanach and its villages, Megiddo and its villages, and Dor and its villages.
The descendants of Joseph son of Israel lived in these towns.
30 The sons of Asher:
Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah.
31 The sons of Beriah:
Heber and Malchiel, who was the father of Birzaith.
32 Heber was the father of Japhlet, Shomer, Hotham, and their sister Shua.
33 The sons of Japhlet:
Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath. These were Japhlet’s sons.
34 The sons of Shemer:
Ahi, Rohgah, Hubbah, and Aram.
35 The sons of his brother Helem:
Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal.
36 The sons of Zophah:
Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri, Imrah, 37 Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran, and Beera.
38 The sons of Jether:
Jephunneh, Pispa, and Ara.
39 The sons of Ulla:
Arah, Hanniel, and Rizia.
40 All of these were the descendants of Asher. They were the heads of their ancestral houses, choice men, brave warriors, and chiefs among the leaders. The number of men listed in their geneology, ready to fight in battle, was 26,000.