THE FIRST BOOKE of the Chronicles. Chapter 7

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CHAP. VII.

1 The sonnes of Issachar, 6 Of Beniamin, 13 Of Naphtali, 14 Of Manasseh, 20, 24 And of Ephraim. 21 The calamitie of Ephraim by the men of Gath. 23 Beriah is borne. 28 Ephraims habitations. 30 The sonnes of Asher.

¹Now the sonnes of Issachar were, Tola, and Puah, Iashub, and Shimron, foure.¹

²And the sonnes of Tola: Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Ieriel, and Iahmai, and Iibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers house, to wit, of Tola, they were valiant men of might in their generations, whose number was in the dayes of Dauid two and twentie thousand and sixe hundred.²

³And the sonnes of Uzzi, Izrahiah: and the sonnes of Izrahiah, Michael, and Obadiah, and Ioel, Ishiah, fiue: all of them chiefe men.

⁴And with them, by their generations, after the house of their fathers, were bands of souldiers for warre, sixe and thirtie thousand men: for they had many wiues and sonnes.

⁵And their brethren among all the families of Issachar, were men of might, reckoned in all by their genealogies, fourescore and seuen thousand.

⁶¶ The sonnes of Beniamin: Bela, and Becher, and Iediael, three.⁶

⁷And the sonnes of Bela: Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Ierimoth, and Iri, fiue, heads of the house of their fathers, mightie men of valour, and were reckoned by their genealogies, twentie and two thousand, and thirtie and foure.

⁸And the sonnes of Becher: Zemira, and Ioash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Ierimoth, and Abiah, and Anathoth, and Alameth. All these are the sonnes of Becher.

⁹And the number of them, after their genealogie by their generations, heads of the house of their fathers, mightie men of valour, was twentie thousand and two hundred.

¹⁰The sonnes also of Iediael, Bilhan: and the sonnes of Bilhan, Ieush, and Beniamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tharshish, and Ahishahar.

¹¹All these the sonnes of Iediael, by the heads of their fathers, mighty men of valour, were seuenteene thousand and two hundred souldiers, fit to goe out for warre and battaile.

¹²Shuppim also, and Huppim, the children of Ir, and Hushim, the sonnes of Aher.¹²

¹³¶ The sonnes of Naphtali, Iahziel, and Guni, and Iezer, and Shallum, the sonnes of Bilhah.

¹⁴¶ The sonnes of Manasseh: Ashriel, whom shee bare (but his concnbine the Aramitesse, bare Machir the father of Gilead.

¹⁵And Machir tooke to wife the sister of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sisters name was Maachah) and the name of the second was Zelophehad: and Zelophehad had daughters.

¹⁶And Maachah the wife of Machir bare a sonne, and shee called his name Peresh, and the name of his brother was Sheresh, and his sonnes were Ulam and Rakem.

¹⁷And the sonnes of Ulam, Bedan. These were the sonnes of Gilead, the sonne of Machir, the sonne of Manasseh.¹⁷

¹⁸And his sister Hammoleketh bare Ishad, and Abiezer, and Mahalah.

¹⁹And the sonnes of Shemida were: Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam.

²⁰¶ And the sonnes of Ephraim: Shuthelah: and Bered his sonne, and Tahath his sonne, and Eladah his sonne, and Tahath his sonne,

²¹¶ And Zabad his sonne, and Shuthelah his sonne, and Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath, that were borne in that land slewe, because they came downe to take away their cattell.

²²And Ephraim their father mourned many dayes, and his brethren came to comfort him.

²³¶ And when hee went in to his wife, shee conceiued and bare a sonne, and he called his name, Beriah, because it went euill with his house.

²⁴(And his daughter was Sherah, who built Bethoron the nether, and the vpper, and Uzzen Sherah.)

²⁵And Rephah was his sonne, also Rezeph, and Telah his sonne, and Tahan his sonne,

²⁶Laadan his sonne, Amihud his sonne, Elishama his sonne,

²⁷Non his sonne, Iehoshua his sonne.²⁷

²⁸¶ And their possessions and habitations were, Bethel, and the townes thereof, and Eastward Naaran, and Westward Gezer with the townes thereof, Shechem also and the townes thereof, vnto Gaza and the townes thereof.²⁸

²⁹And by the borders of the children of Manasseh, Bethshean and her townes, Taanach and her townes, Megiddo and her townes, Dor and her townes. In these dwelt the children of Ioseph the sonne of Israel.²⁹

³⁰¶ The sonnes of Asher: Imnah, and Isuah, and Ishuai, and Beriah, and Serah their sister.³⁰

³¹And the sonnes of Beriah: Heber, and Malchiel, who is the father of Birzauith.

³²And Heber begate Iaphlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shuah their sister.

³³And the sonnes of Iaphlet: Pasach, and Bimhal, and Ashuath. These are the children of Iaphlet.

³⁴And the sonnes of Shamer: Ahi, and Rohgah, Iehubbah, and Aram.

³⁵And the sonne of his brother, Helem: Zophah, and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal.

³⁶The sonnes of Zophah: Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah:

³⁷Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera.

³⁸And the sonnes of Iether: Iephunneh, and Pispa, and Ara.

³⁹And the sonnes of Ulla: Arah, and Haniel, and Rezia.

⁴⁰All these were the children of Asher, heads of their fathers house, choice and mightie men of valour, chiefe of the princes. And the number throughout the genealogie of them, that were apt to the warre and to battell, was twentie and sixe thousand men.

Original 1611 KJV Sidenote References for 1 Chronicles Chapter 7

¹ Gen.46. 13. num. 26.23.
² 2.Sam.24. 1,2.
⁶ Gen 46. 21.
¹² Or, Iri, vers.7. , Or, Ahiram.num. 26.38.
¹⁷ 1.Sam.12 11.
²⁷ Or, Nun. numb. 13,9.
²⁸ Iosh. 16.7. , Hebr. daughters. , Or, Adassa, 1. mac.7.45.
²⁹ Iosh.17.7 , Iosh.17. 11.
³⁰ Gen.46. 17.

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