Monday, July 07, 2025
Genealogy from Issachar
7 Now the sons of Issachar were four: Tola, [a]Puah, [b]Jashub and Shimron. 2 The sons of Tola were Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam and Samuel, heads of their fathers’ households. The sons of Tola were mighty men of valor in their generations; their number in the days of David was 22,600. 3 The [c]son of Uzzi was Izrahiah. And the sons of Izrahiah were Michael, Obadiah, Joel, Isshiah; all five of them were chief men. 4 With them by their generations according to their fathers’ households were 36,000 [d]troops of the army for war, for they had many wives and sons. 5 Their [e]relatives among all the families of Issachar were mighty men of valor, enrolled by genealogy, in all 87,000.
Descendants of Benjamin
6 The sons of Benjamin were three: Bela and Becher and Jediael. 7 The sons of Bela were five: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth and Iri. They were heads of fathers’ households, mighty men of valor, and were 22,034 enrolled by genealogy. 8 The sons of Becher were Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher. 9 They were enrolled by genealogy, according to their generations, heads of their fathers’ households, 20,200 mighty men of valor. 10 The [f]son of Jediael was Bilhan. And the sons of Bilhan were Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish and Ahishahar. 11 All these were sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers’ households, 17,200 mighty men of valor, who were [g]ready to go out with the army to war. 12 [h]Shuppim and [i]Huppim were the sons of [j]Ir; Hushim was the [k]son of [l]Aher.
Sons of Naphtali
13 The sons of Naphtali were [m]Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and [n]Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.
Descendants of Manasseh
14 The sons of Manasseh were Asriel, whom his Aramean concubine bore; she bore Machir the father of Gilead. 15 Machir took a wife for Huppim and Shuppim, [o]whose sister’s name was Maacah. And the name of the second was Zelophehad, and Zelophehad had daughters. 16 Maacah the wife of Machir bore a son, and she named him Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh, and his sons were Ulam and Rakem. 17 The [p]son of Ulam was Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh. 18 His sister Hammolecheth bore Ishhod and [q]Abiezer and Mahlah. 19 The sons of Shemida were Ahian and Shechem and Likhi and Aniam.
Descendants of Ephraim
20 The sons of Ephraim were Shuthelah and [r]Bered his son, Tahath his son, Eleadah his son, Tahath his son, 21 Zabad his son, Shuthelah his son, and Ezer and Elead whom the men of Gath who were born in the land killed, because they came down to take their livestock. 22 Their father Ephraim mourned many days, and his relatives came to comfort him. 23 Then he went in to his wife, and she conceived and bore a son, and he named him [s]Beriah, because misfortune had come upon his house. 24 His daughter was Sheerah, who built lower and upper Beth-horon, also Uzzen-sheerah. 25 Rephah was his son along with Resheph, Telah his son, Tahan his son, 26 Ladan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son, 27 [t]Non his son and Joshua his son.
28 Their possessions and settlements were Bethel with its towns, and to the east [u]Naaran, and to the west Gezer with its towns, and Shechem with its towns as far as [v]Ayyah with its towns, 29 and along the borders of the sons of Manasseh, Beth-shean with its towns, Taanach with its towns, Megiddo with its towns, Dor with its towns. In these lived the sons of Joseph the son of Israel.
Descendants of Asher
30 The sons of Asher were Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi and Beriah, and Serah their sister. 31 The sons of Beriah were Heber and Malchiel, who was the father of Birzaith. 32 Heber [w]became the father of Japhlet, [x]Shomer and Hotham, and Shua their sister. 33 The sons of Japhlet were Pasach, Bimhal and Ashvath. These were the sons of Japhlet. 34 The sons of [y]Shemer were Ahi and Rohgah, Jehubbah and Aram. 35 The [z]sons of his brother Helem were Zophah, Imna, Shelesh and Amal. 36 The sons of Zophah were Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri and Imrah, 37 Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran and Beera. 38 The sons of Jether were Jephunneh, Pispa and Ara. 39 The sons of Ulla were Arah, Hanniel and Rizia. 40 All these were the sons of Asher, heads of the fathers’ houses, choice and mighty men of valor, heads of the princes. And the number of them enrolled by genealogy for service in war was 26,000 men.
Footnotes
- 1 Chronicles 7:1 In Gen 46:13, Puvvah; in Num 26:23, Puvah
- 1 Chronicles 7:1 In Gen 46:13, Iob
- 1 Chronicles 7:3 Lit sons
- 1 Chronicles 7:4 Or bands
- 1 Chronicles 7:5 Lit brothers, and so throughout the ch
- 1 Chronicles 7:10 Lit sons
- 1 Chronicles 7:11 Lit going out
- 1 Chronicles 7:12 In Num 26:39, Shephupham
- 1 Chronicles 7:12 In Num 26:39, Hupham
- 1 Chronicles 7:12 In v 7, Iri
- 1 Chronicles 7:12 Lit sons
- 1 Chronicles 7:12 In Num 26:38, Ahiram
- 1 Chronicles 7:13 In Gen 46:24, Jahzeel
- 1 Chronicles 7:13 In Gen 46:24 and Num 26:49, Shillem
- 1 Chronicles 7:15 Lit and his
- 1 Chronicles 7:17 Lit sons
- 1 Chronicles 7:18 In Num 26:30, Iezer
- 1 Chronicles 7:20 In Num 26:35, Becher
- 1 Chronicles 7:23 I.e. on misfortune
- 1 Chronicles 7:27 In Ex 33:11, Nun
- 1 Chronicles 7:28 In Josh 16:7, Naarah
- 1 Chronicles 7:28 Many mss read Azzah
- 1 Chronicles 7:32 Lit begot
- 1 Chronicles 7:32 In v 34, Shemer
- 1 Chronicles 7:34 In v 32, Shomer
- 1 Chronicles 7:35 Lit son
Folly and Wickedness of Men.
For the choir director; according to [a]Mahalath. A [b]Maskil of David.
53 The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God,”
They are corrupt, and have committed abominable injustice;
There is no one who does good.
2 God has looked down from heaven upon the sons of men
To see if there is anyone who [c]understands,
Who seeks after God.
3 Every one of them has turned aside; together they have become corrupt;
There is no one who does good, not even one.
4 Have the workers of wickedness no knowledge,
Who eat up My people as though they ate bread
And have not called upon God?
5 There they were in great [d]fear where no [e]fear had been;
For God scattered the bones of [f]him who encamped against you;
You put them to shame, because God had rejected them.
6 Oh, that the salvation of Israel [g]would come out of Zion!
When God [h]restores His captive people,
[i]Let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.
Prayer for Defense against Enemies.
For the choir director; on stringed instruments. A [j]Maskil of David, [k]when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, “Is not David hiding himself among us?”
54 Save me, O God, by Your name,
And [l]vindicate me by Your power.
2 Hear my prayer, O God;
Give ear to the words of my mouth.
3 For strangers have risen against me
And violent men have sought my [m]life;
They have not set God before them. [n]Selah.
4 Behold, God is my helper;
The Lord is [o]the sustainer of my soul.
5 [p]He will recompense the evil to [q]my foes;
[r]Destroy them in Your [s]faithfulness.
6 [t]Willingly I will sacrifice to You;
I will give thanks to Your name, O Lord, for it is good.
7 For [u]He has delivered me from all [v]trouble,
And my eye has looked with satisfaction upon my enemies.
Footnotes
- Psalm 53:1 I.e. sickness, a sad tone
- Psalm 53:1 Possibly Contemplative, or Didactic, or Skillful Psalm
- Psalm 53:2 Or acts wisely
- Psalm 53:5 Or dread
- Psalm 53:5 Or dread
- Psalm 53:5 Or possibly those
- Psalm 53:6 Lit would be
- Psalm 53:6 Or restores the fortunes of His people
- Psalm 53:6 Or Jacob will rejoice, Israel will be glad
- Psalm 54:1 Possibly Contemplative, or Didactic, or Skillful Psalm
- Psalm 54:1 1 Sam 23:19; 26:1
- Psalm 54:1 Lit judge
- Psalm 54:3 Or soul
- Psalm 54:3 Selah may mean: Pause, Crescendo or Musical interlude
- Psalm 54:4 Lit as those who sustain
- Psalm 54:5 Lit The evil will return
- Psalm 54:5 Or those who lie in wait for me
- Psalm 54:5 Or Put to silence
- Psalm 54:5 Or truth
- Psalm 54:6 Or With a freewill offering
- Psalm 54:7 Or it; i.e. His name
- Psalm 54:7 Or distress