11 - all sons of Jediael and family chiefs; they counted 17,200 combat-ready warriors. 12 Shuppim and Huppim were the sons of Ir; Hushim were from the family of Aher.
13 The sons of Naphtali were Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum; they are listed under the maternal line of Bilhah, their grandfather's concubine.
14 Manasseh's sons, born of his Aramean concubine, were Asriel and Makir the father of Gilead. 15 Makir got his wife from the Huppites and Shuppites. His sister's name was Maacah. Another son, Zelophehad, had only daughters. 16 Makir's wife Maacah bore a son whom she named Peresh; his brother's name was Sheresh and his sons were Ulam and Rakem. 17 Ulam's son was Bedan. This accounts for the sons of Gilead son of Makir, the son of Manasseh. 18 His sister Hammoleketh gave birth to Ishdod, Abiezer, and Mahlah. 19 The sons of Shemida were Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam.
20 The sons of Ephraim were Shuthelah, Bered his son, Tahath his son, Eleadah his son, Tahath his son, 21 Zabad his son, Shuthelah his son, and Ezer and Elead, cattle-rustlers, killed on one of their raids by the natives of Gath. 22 Their father Ephraim grieved a long time and his family gathered to give him comfort.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on 1 Chronicles 7:11-22
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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.