1 Chronicles7
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1Of the sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.
2The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers’ houses, of Tola; mighty men of valor in their generations. Their number in the days of David was twenty-two thousand six hundred.
3The son of Uzzi: Izrahiah. The sons of Izrahiah: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah, five; all of them chief men.
4With them, by their generations, after their fathers’ houses, were bands of the army for war, thirty-six thousand; for they had many wives and sons.
5Their brothers among all the families of Issachar, mighty men of valor, listed in all by genealogy, were eighty-seven thousand.
6The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, and Jediael, three.
7The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of fathers’ houses, mighty men of valor; and they were listed by genealogy twenty-two thousand thirty-four.
8The sons of Becher: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher.
9They were listed by genealogy, after their generations, heads of their fathers’ houses, mighty men of valor, twenty thousand two hundred.
10The son of Jediael: Bilhan. The sons of Bilhan: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar.
11All these were sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers’ households, mighty men of valor, seventeen thousand two hundred, who were able to go out in the army for war.
12So were Shuppim, Huppim, the sons of Ir, Hushim, and the sons of Aher.
13The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, Shallum, and the sons of Bilhah.
14The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his concubine the Aramitess bore. She bore Machir the father of Gilead.
15Machir took a wife of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister’s name was Maacah. The name of the second was Zelophehad; and Zelophehad had daughters.
16Maacah the wife of Machir bore a son, and she named him Peresh. The name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.
17The sons of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.
18His sister Hammolecheth bore Ishhod, Abiezer, and Mahlah.
19The sons of Shemida were Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam.
20The sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah, Bered his son, Tahath his son, Eleadah his son, Tahath his son,
21Zabad his son, Shuthelah his son, Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath who were born in the land killed, because they came down to take away their livestock.
22Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.
23He went in to his wife, and she conceived and bore a son, and he named him Beriah, because there was trouble with his house.
24His daughter was Sheerah, who built Beth Horon the lower and the upper, and Uzzen Sheerah.
25Rephah was his son, Resheph his son, Telah his son, Tahan his son,
26Ladan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,
27Nun his son, and Joshua his son.
28Their possessions and settlements were Bethel and its towns, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer with its towns; Shechem also and its towns, to Azzah and its towns;
29and by the borders of the children of Manasseh, Beth Shean and its towns, Taanach and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, and Dor and its towns. The children of Joseph the son of Israel lived in these.
30The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and Beriah. Serah was their sister.
31The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel, who was the father of Birzaith.
32Heber became the father of Japhlet, Shomer, Hotham, and Shua their sister.
33The sons of Japhlet: Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath. These are the children of Japhlet.
34The sons of Shemer: Ahi, Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.
35The sons of Helem his brother: Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal.
36The sons of Zophah: Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri, Imrah,
37Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran, and Beera.
38The sons of Jether: Jephunneh, Pispa, and Ara.
39The sons of Ulla: Arah, Hanniel, and Rizia.
40All these were the children of Asher, heads of the fathers’ houses, choice and mighty men of valor, chief of the princes. The number of them listed by genealogy for service in war was twenty-six thousand men.
Study Guide
Public-domain commentary and original-language notes for 1 Chronicles 7.
Chapter Summary
In this chapter: Genealogies. (1-40).
vv1-40
Here is no account either of Zebulun or Dan. We can assign no reason why they only should be omitted; but it is the disgrace of the tribe of Dan, that idolatry began in that colony which fixed in Laish, and called it Dan, Jud 18 and there one of the golden calves was set up by Jeroboam. Dan is omitted, Re 7. Men become abominable when they forsake the worship of the true God, for any creature object.
Key Words
בֵּן: a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like father or brother), etc.)
יִשָּׂשכָר: Jissaskar, a son of Jacob
תּוֹלָע: Tola, the name of two Israelites
פּוּאָה: Puah or Puvvah, the name of two Israelites
יָשׁוּב: Jashub, the name of two Israelites
שִׁמְרוֹן: Shimron, the name of an Israelite and of a place in Palestine
אַרְבַּע: four
עֻזִּי: Uzzi, the name of six Israelites
רְפָיָה: Rephajah, the name of five Israelites
יְרִיאֵל: Jeriel, an Israelite
Cross References
1 Chronicles 7Identifies Jashub with Job in Genesis, establishing continuity of the names of Issachar's sons.
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Compares Benjamin's sons; ten are named in Genesis, but only three are listed here.
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Identifies Hushim as the son of Dan, explaining his cryptic insertion under Aher.
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Correlates Shuppim and Huppim with Numphim and Hupham/Shupham of the Pentateuch.
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Refers to David's census when these numbers of valiant men of Issachar were registered.
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Clarifies the complicated genealogy of Manasseh, Machir, and the daughters of Zelophehad.
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Compares the expanded list of Benjamin's sons recorded in the next chapter.
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Traces the sons of Naphtali, linking Jahziel/Shillem back to the Genesis narrative.
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Provides the Pentateuchal baseline for the descendants of Manasseh and Machir.
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Confirms Zelophehad was of the family of Manasseh, inheriting through daughters.
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Parallels the naming of Jabez due to sorrow with Ephraim naming Beriah.
Mentions Beth-horon upper and nether, which were built or fortified by Sherah.
Geographical parallel detailing Beth-shean, Taanach, Megiddo, and Dor in Manasseh.
Matches the list of Asher's children, including Imnah, Ishvi, Beriah, and Serah.
Connects Shuppim and Huppim across verses within the family registries of the chapter.
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Traces Joshua (Jehoshua, son of Nun) as a type of Jesus entering rest.