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## 1 Chronicles 7:1-40 in Context (Verses 1–40 KJV)
 
 [1 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/7/1) Now the sons of Issachar *were*, Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.
 
 [2 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/7/2) And the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father’s house, *to wit*, of Tola: *they were* valiant men of might in their generations; whose number *was* in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred.
 
 [3 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/7/3) And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five: all of them chief men.
 
 [4 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/7/4) And with them, by their generations, after the house of their fathers, *were* bands of soldiers for war, six and thirty thousand *men:* for they had many wives and sons.
 
 [5 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/7/5) And their brethren among all the families of Issachar *were* valiant men of might, reckoned in all by their genealogies fourscore and seven thousand.
 
 [6 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/7/6) ¶ *The sons* of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.
 
 [7 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/7/7) And the sons of Bela; Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of the house of *their* fathers, mighty men of valour; and were reckoned by their genealogies twenty and two thousand and thirty and four.
 
 [8 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/7/8) And the sons of Becher; Zemira, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jerimoth, and Abiah, and Anathoth, and Alameth. All these *are* the sons of Becher.
 
 [9 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/7/9) And the number of them, after their genealogy by their generations, heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour, *was* twenty thousand and two hundred.
 
 [10 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/7/10) The sons also of Jediael; Bilhan: and the sons of Bilhan; Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tharshish, and Ahishahar.
 
 [11 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/7/11) All these the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their fathers, mighty men of valour, *were* seventeen thousand and two hundred *soldiers*, fit to go out for war *and* battle.
 
 [12 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/7/12) Shuppim also, and Huppim, the children of Ir, *and* Hushim, the sons of Aher.**
 
 [13 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/7/13) ¶ The sons of Naphtali; Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.
 
 [14 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/7/14) ¶ The sons of Manasseh; Ashriel, whom she bare: (*but* his concubine the Aramitess bare Machir the father of Gilead:
 
 [15 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/7/15) And Machir took to wife *the sister* of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister’s name *was* Maachah;) and the name of the second *was* Zelophehad: and Zelophehad had daughters.
 
 [16 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/7/16) And Maachah the wife of Machir bare a son, and she called his name Peresh; and the name of his brother *was* Sheresh; and his sons *were* Ulam and Rakem.
 
 [17 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/7/17) And the sons of Ulam; Bedan. These *were* the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.
 
 [18 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/7/18) And his sister Hammoleketh bare Ishod, and Abiezer, and Mahalah.
 
 [19 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/7/19) And the sons of Shemida were, Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam.
 
 [20 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/7/20) ¶ And the sons of Ephraim; Shuthelah, and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and Eladah his son, and Tahath his son,
 
 [21 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/7/21) ¶ And Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath *that were* born in *that* land slew, because they came down to take away their cattle.
 
 [22 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/7/22) And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.
 
 [23 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/7/23) ¶ And when he went in to his wife, she conceived, and bare a son, and he called his name Beriah, because it went evil with his house.
 
 [24 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/7/24) (And his daughter *was* Sherah, who built Beth-horon the nether, and the upper, and Uzzen-sherah.)
 
 [25 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/7/25) And Rephah *was* his son, also Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son,
 
 [26 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/7/26) Laadan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,
 
 [27 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/7/27) Non his son, Jehoshua his son.**
 
 [28 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/7/28) ¶ And their possessions and habitations *were*, Beth-el and the towns thereof, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with the towns thereof; Shechem also and the towns thereof, unto Gaza and the towns thereof:**
 
 [29 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/7/29) And by the borders of the children of Manasseh, Beth-shean and her towns, Taanach and her towns, Megiddo and her towns, Dor and her towns. In these dwelt the children of Joseph the son of Israel.*
 
 [30 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/7/30) ¶ The sons of Asher; Imnah, and Isuah, and Ishuai, and Beriah, and Serah their sister.
 
 [31 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/7/31) And the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel, who *is* the father of Birzavith.
 
 [32 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/7/32) And Heber begat Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister.
 
 [33 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/7/33) And the sons of Japhlet; Pasach, and Bimhal, and Ashvath. These *are* the children of Japhlet.
 
 [34 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/7/34) And the sons of Shamer; Ahi, and Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.
 
 [35 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/7/35) And the sons of his brother Helem; Zophah, and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal.
 
 [36 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/7/36) The sons of Zophah; Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah,
 
 [37 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/7/37) Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera.
 
 [38 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/7/38) And the sons of Jether; Jephunneh, and Pispah, and Ara.
 
 [39 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/7/39) And the sons of Ulla; Arah, and Haniel, and Rezia.
 
 [40 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/7/40) All these *were* the children of Asher, heads of *their* father’s house, choice *and* mighty men of valour, chief of the princes. And the number throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war *and* to battle *was* twenty and six thousand men.
 
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