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1 Chronicles 7:1-16 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

1. Now the sons of Issachar were Tola and Puah, Jashub and Shimron, four.

2. The sons of Tola: Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Ibsam, and Shemuel, leaders according to the houses of their kindred. From the stock of Tola, there were numbered, in the days of David, twenty-two thousand six hundred very strong men.

3. The sons of Uzzi: Izrahiah, from whom were born: Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, and Isshiah; all five were leaders.

4. And with them, by their families and peoples, there were thirty-six thousand very strong men, girded for battle. And they had many wives and children.

5. Also, their brothers, throughout all the kindred of Issachar, were numbered as eighty-seven thousand, very fit for battle.

6. The sons of Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.

7. The sons of Bela: Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth and Iri, five leaders of families, also very fit for battle; and their number was twenty-two thousand thirty-four.

8. Now the sons of Becher: Zemirah, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jeremoth, and Abijah, and Anathoth, and Alemeth: all these were sons of Becher.

9. And they were numbered according to their families, by the leaders of their kindred, very strong in warfare, twenty thousand and two hundred.

10. And the sons of Jediael: Bilhan, and the sons of Bilhan: Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tarshish, and Ahishahar.

11. All these were sons of Jediael, the leaders of their kindred, very strong men, seventeen thousand and two hundred, going forth to battle.

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

13. Then the sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum, sons of Bilhah.

14. Also, the son of Manasseh: Asriel. And his concubine, a Syrian, bore Machir, the father of Gilead.

15. Now Machir took wives for his sons, Huppim and Shuppim. And he had a sister named Maacah; but the name of the second was Zelophehad, and daughters were born to Zelophehad.

16. And Maacah, the wife of Machir, bore a son, and she called his name Peresh. And the name of his brother was Sheresh. And his sons were Ulam and Rakem.

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