Holman Christian Standard Bible

1 Chronicles 7:2-22 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

2. Tola’s sons: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, the heads of their ancestral houses. During David’s reign, 22,600 descendants of Tola were recorded as warriors in their genealogies.

3. Uzzi’s son: Izrahiah.Izrahiah’s sons: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, Isshiah. All five of them were chiefs.

4. Along with them, they had 36,000 troops for battle according to the genealogical records of their ancestral houses, for they had many wives and children.

5. Their tribesmen who were warriors belonging to all the families of Issachar totaled 87,000 in their genealogies.

6. Three of Benjamin’s sons: Bela, Becher, and Jediael.

7. Bela’s sons: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri — five. They were warriors and heads of their ancestral houses; 22,034 were listed in their genealogies.

8. Becher’s sons: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth; all these were Becher’s sons.

9. Their genealogies were recorded according to the heads of their ancestral houses — 20,200 warriors.

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

11. All these sons of Jediael listed by heads of families were warriors; there were 17,200 who could serve in the army.

12. Shuppim and Huppim were sons of Ir, and the Hushim were the sons of Aher.

13. Naphtali’s sons: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum — Bilhah’s sons.

14. Manasseh’s sons through his Aramean concubine: Asriel and Machir the father of Gilead.

15. Machir took wives from Huppim and Shuppim. The name of his sister was Maacah. Another descendant was named Zelophehad, but he had only daughters.

16. Machir’s wife Maacah gave birth to a son, and she named him Peresh. His brother was named Sheresh, and his sons were Ulam and Rekem.

17. Ulam’s son: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead son of Machir, son of Manasseh.

18. His sister Hammolecheth gave birth to Ishhod, Abiezer, and Mahlah.

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

20. Ephraim’s sons: Shuthelah, and his son Bered,his son Tahath, his son Eleadah,his son Tahath,

21. his son Zabad,his son Shuthelah, also Ezer, and Elead.The men of Gath, born in the land, killed them because they went down to raid their cattle.

22. Their father Ephraim mourned a long time, and his relatives came to comfort him.