New Living Translation

1 Chronicles 7:10-29 New Living Translation (NLT)

10. The son of Jediael was Bilhan. The sons of Bilhan were Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Kenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar.

11. Each of them was the leader of an ancestral clan. From these clans the total number of mighty warriors ready for war was 17,200.

12. The sons of Ir were Shuppim and Huppim. Hushim was the son of Aher.

13. The sons of Naphtali were Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem. They were all descendants of Jacob’s concubine Bilhah.

14. The descendants of Manasseh through his Aramean concubine included Asriel. She also bore Makir, the father of Gilead.

15. Makir found wives for Huppim and Shuppim. Makir had a sister named Maacah. One of his descendants was Zelophehad, who had only daughters.

16. Makir’s wife, Maacah, gave birth to a son whom she named Peresh. His brother’s name was Sheresh. The sons of Peresh were Ulam and Rakem.

17. The son of Ulam was Bedan. All these were considered Gileadites, descendants of Makir son of Manasseh.

18. Makir’s sister Hammoleketh gave birth to Ishhod, Abiezer, and Mahlah.

19. The sons of Shemida were Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam.

20. The descendants of Ephraim were Shuthelah, Bered, Tahath, Eleadah, Tahath,

21. Zabad, Shuthelah, Ezer, and Elead. These two were killed trying to steal livestock from the local farmers near Gath.

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

23. Afterward Ephraim slept with his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. Ephraim named him Beriah because of the tragedy his family had suffered.

24. He had a daughter named Sheerah. She built the towns of Lower and Upper Beth-horon and Uzzen-sheerah.

25. The descendants of Ephraim included Rephah, Resheph, Telah, Tahan,

26. Ladan, Ammihud, Elishama,

27. Nun, and Joshua.

28. The descendants of Ephraim lived in the territory that included Bethel and its surrounding towns to the south, Naaran to the east, Gezer and its villages to the west, and Shechem and its surrounding villages to the north as far as Ayyah and its towns.

29. Along the border of Manasseh were the towns of Beth-shan, Taanach, Megiddo, Dor, and their surrounding villages. The descendants of Joseph son of Israel lived in these towns.