Common English Bible

1 Chronicles 7:22-40 Common English Bible (CEB)

22. Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.

23. Ephraim had sex with his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. He named him Beriah, because misfortune had come to his house.

24. His daughter was Sheerah. She built both Lower and Upper Beth-horon and Uzzen-sheerah.

25. His son was Rephah, his son Resheph, his son Telah, his son Tahan,

26. his son Ladan, his son Ammihud, his son Elishama,

27. his son Nun, and his son Joshua.

28. Their possessions and settlements were Bethel and its towns, to the east Naaran, and to the west Gezer and its towns, and Shechem and its towns as far as Ayyah and its towns.

29. Beth-shean and its towns, Taanach and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, and Dor and its towns were under Manassite authority. The family of Joseph, Israel’s son, lived in them.

30. Asher’s family: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah.

31. Beriah’s family: Heber and Malchiel, who was Birzaith’s father.

32. Heber was the father of Japhlet, Shomer, Hotham, and their sister Shua.

33. Japhlet’s family: Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath. This is Japhlet’s family.

34. Shemer’s family: Ahi, Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.

35. His brother Helem’s family: Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal.

36. Zophah’s family: Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri, Imrah,

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

38. Jether’s family: Jephunneh, Pispa, and Ara.

39. Ulla’s family: Arah, Hanniel, and Rizia.

40. All these were Asher’s family, heads of households, select mighty warriors, the heads of the princes. Those ready for battle listed in the records numbered 26,000.