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The Descendants of Issachar
1 Issachar had four sons: Tola,
Puah, Jashub, and Shimron.
2 Tola had six sons: Uzzi, Rephaiah,
Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel.
They were heads of families of
the clan of Tola and were famous
soldiers. At the time of King David
their descendants numbered 22,600.
3 Uzzi had one son, Izrahiah. Izrahiah
and his four sons, Michael,
Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah, were all
heads of families.
4 They had so
many wives and children that their
descendants were able to provide
36,000 men for military duty.
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5 The official records of all the
families of the tribe of Issachar
listed 87,000 men eligible for military
duty.
The Descendants of Benjamin and Dan
6 Benjamin had three sons: Bela,
Becher, and Jediael.
7 Bela had five sons: Ezbon, Uzzi,
Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri. They were
heads of families in the clan and
were all famous soldiers. Their descendants
included 22,034 men eligible
for military duty.
8 Becher had nine sons: Zemirah,
Joash, Eliezer, Eleoenai, Omri, Jeremoth,
Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth.
9 The official record of their
descendants by families listed
20,200 men eligible for military duty.
10 Jediael had one son, Bilhan, and
Bilhan had seven sons: Jeush, Benjamin,
Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish,
and Ahishahar.
11 They were
heads of families in the clan and
were all famous soldiers. Their descendants
included 17,200 men eligible
for military duty.
12 Shuppim and
Huppim also belonged to this tribe.
12 Dan had one son, Hushim. note
The Descendants of Naphtali
13 Naphtali had four sons: Jahziel,
Guni, Jezer, and Shallum. (They
were descendants of Bilhah.) note
The Descendants of Manasseh
14 By his Aramean concubine, Manasseh
had two sons, Asriel and Machir.
Machir was the father of Gilead.
15 Machir found a wife for
Huppim and one for Shuppim. His
sister's name was Maacah. Machir's
second son was Zelophehad, and he
had only daughters.
16 Maacah, Machir's wife, gave
birth to two sons, whom they named
Peresh and Sheresh. Peresh had two
sons, Ulam and Rakem,
17 and Ulam
had a son named Bedan. These are
all descendants of Gilead, the son of
Machir and grandson of Manasseh.
18 Gilead's sister Hammolecheth
had three sons: Ishod, Abiezer, and
Mahlah.
19 (Shemida had four sons:
Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam.)
The Descendants of Ephraim
20 These are the descendants of Ephraim
from generation to generation:
Shuthelah, Bered, Tahath, Eleadah,
Tahath,
21 Zabad, Shuthelah.
Ephraim had two other sons besides
Shuthelah: Ezer and Elead, who
were killed when they tried to steal
the livestock belonging to the native
inhabitants of Gath.
22 Their father
Ephraim mourned for them for
many days, and his brothers came to
comfort him.
23 Then he had intercourse
with his wife again, and she
became pregnant and had a son.
They named him Beriah, note because of
the trouble that had come to their
family.
24 Ephraim had a daughter named
Sheerah. She built the towns of Upper
and Lower Beth Horon, and Uzzen
Sheerah.
25 Ephraim also had a son named
Rephah, whose descendants were as
follows: Resheph, Telah, Tahan,
26 Ladan, Ammihud, Elishama,
27 Nun, Joshua.
28 The territory which they took
and settled included Bethel and the
towns around it, as far east as Naaran
and as far west as Gezer and the
towns around it. It also included the
cities of Shechem and Ayyah, and
the towns around them.
29 The descendants of Manasseh
controlled the cities of Beth Shean,
Taanach, Megiddo, and Dor, and the
towns around them.
29 All these are the places where the
descendants of Joseph son of Jacob
lived.
The Descendants of Asher
30 These are the descendants of
Asher. He had four sons: Imnah, Ishvah,
Ishvi, and Beriah; and one
daughter, Serah.
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31 Beriah had two sons, Heber and
Malchiel. (Malchiel founded the city
of Birzaith.)
32 Heber had three sons: Japhlet,
Shomer, and Hotham; and one
daughter, Shua.
33 Japhlet also had three sons: Pasach,
Bimhal, and Ashvath.
34 His brother Shomer had three
sons: Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.
35 His brother Hotham note had four
sons: Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and
Amal.
36 The descendants of Zophah
were Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri,
Imrah,
37 Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah,
Ithran, Beera.
38 The descendants of Jether were
Jephunneh, Pispa, Ara,
39 and the descendants
of Ulla were Arah, Hanniel,
Rizia.
40 All of these were descendants of
Asher. They were heads of families,
famous fighting men, outstanding
leaders. Asher's descendants included
26,000 men eligible for military
duty.
Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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