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1 Chronicles 7:1-11 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

1. Issachar’s sons: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron — four.

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.

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