God's Word Translation

1 Chronicles 7:7-22 God's Word Translation (GW)

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.

14. Manasseh’s sons were Asriel and Machir. Their mother was Manasseh’s Aramean concubine. Machir was the first to settle Gilead.

15. He married a wife from the Huppites and Shuppites. His wife’s name was Maacah. The name of his second son was Zelophehad. Zelophehad had only daughters.

16. Maacah, Machir’s wife, had a son, and she named him Peresh. His brother’s name was Sheresh, whose sons were Ulam and Rakem.

17. Ulam’s son was Bedan. These were the people of Gilead, descendants of Machir (son of Manasseh).

18. Bedan’s sister Hammolecheth gave birth to Ishhod, Abiezer, and Mahlah.

19. Shemida’s sons were Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam.

20. Ephraim’s son was Shuthelah. Shuthelah’s son was Bered. Bered’s son was Tahath. Tahath’s son was Eleadah. Eleadah’s son was Tahath.

21. Tahath’s son was Zabad. Zabad’s son was Shuthelah.Ephraim’s sons Ezer and Elead were killed by the men of Gath when they came to take their livestock.

22. Their father Ephraim mourned a long time, even though his brothers tried to comfort him.