God's Word Translation

1 Chronicles 7:5-13 God's Word Translation (GW)

5. Their relatives (that is, all of Issachar’s families) were fighting men. A total of 87,000 of them was recorded in the genealogy.

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

7. Bela’s five sons were Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri. They were heads of families and fighting men. In the genealogy 22,034 of them were recorded.

8. Becher’s sons were Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. These were all of Becher’s sons.

9. In the genealogy 22,200 of them were recorded according to their ancestry (the heads of their families and fighting men).

10. Jediael’s son was Bilhan. Bilhan’s sons were Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar.

11. All of these men were Jediael’s descendants. They headed families that produced 17,200 fighting men who could go to war.

12. The Shuppites and Huppites were Ir’s descendants. The Hushites were descendants of someone else.

13. Naphtali’s sons were Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum. They were Bilhah’s grandsons.