14 Sons of Manasseh: Ashriel, whom Jaladah his Aramaean concubine bare, with Machir father of Gilead. 15 And Machir took wives for Huppim and for Shuppim, and the name of the one 'is' Maachah, and the name of the second Zelophehad, and Zelophehad hath daughters. 16 And Maachah wife of Machir beareth a son and calleth his name Peresh, and the name of his brother 'is' Sheresh, and his sons 'are' Ulam and Rakem. 17 And son of Ulam: Bedan. These 'are' sons of Gilead son of Machir, son of Manasseh. 18 And his sister Hammolecheth bare Ishhod, and Abiezer, and Mahalah. 19 And the sons of Shemida are Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam.
20 And sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah, and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and Eladah his son, and Tahath his son, 21 and Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead; and slain them have men of Gath who are born in the land, because they came down to take their cattle. 22 And Ephraim their father mourneth many days, and his brethren come in to comfort him, 23 and he goeth in unto his wife, and she conceiveth and beareth a son, and he calleth his name Beriah, because in evil had been his house,— 24 and his daughter 'is' Sherah, and she buildeth Beth-Horon, the lower and the upper, and Uzzen-Sherah— 25 and Rephah 'is' his son, and Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son, 26 Laadan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son, 27 Non his son, Jehoshua his son. 28 And their possession and their dwellings 'are' Beth-El and its small towns, and to the east Naaran, and to the west Gezer and its small towns, and Shechem and its small towns, unto Gaza and its small towns; 29 and by the parts of the sons of Manasseh, Beth-Shean and its small towns, Taanach and its small towns, Megiddo and its small towns, Dor and its small towns; in these dwelt the sons of Joseph son of Israel.
30 Son of Asher: Imnah, and Ishve, and Ishvi, and Beriah, and Serah their sister. 31 And sons of Beriah: Heber, and Malchiel—he 'is' father of Birzavith. 32 And Heber begat Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister. 33 And sons of Japhlet: Pasach, and Bimhal, and Ashvath; these 'are' sons of Japhlet. 34 and sons of Shamer: Ahi, and Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram. 35 And son of Helem his brother: Zophah, and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal. 36 Sons of Zophah: Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah, 37 Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera. 38 And sons of Jether: Jephunneh, and Pispah, and Ara. 39 And sons of Ulla: Arah, and Hanniel, and Rezia. 40 All these 'are' sons of Asher, heads of the house of the fathers, chosen ones, mighty in valour, heads of the princes, with their genealogy, for the host, for battle, their number 'is' twenty and six thousand men.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on 1 Chronicles 7:14-40
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Genealogies.
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, Revelation 7. Men become abominable when they forsake the worship of the true God, for any creature object.