22 And for a long time Ephraim their father went on weeping for them, and his brothers came to give him comfort. 23 After that, he had connection with his wife, and she became with child and gave birth to a son, to whom his father gave the name of Beriah, because trouble had come on his family. 24 And his daughter was Sheerah, the builder of Beth-horon the lower and the higher, and Uzzen-sheerah. 25 And Rephah was his son, and Resheph; his son was Telah, and his son was Tahan; 26 Ladan was his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son, 27 Nun his son, Joshua his son. 28 Their heritage and their living-places were Beth-el and its daughter-towns, and Naaran to the east, and Gezer to the west, with its daughter-towns, as well as Shechem and its daughter-towns as far as Azzah and its daughter-towns; 29 And by the limits of the children of Manasseh, Beth-shean and its daughter-towns, Taanach, Megiddo, and Dor, with their daughter-towns. In these the children of Joseph, the son of Israel, were living.
30 The sons of Asher: Imnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah and Serah, their sister. 31 And the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel, who was the father of Birzaith. 32 And Heber was the father of Japhlet and Shomer and Hotham and Shua, their sister. 33 And the sons of Japhlet: Pasach and Bimhal and Ashvath. These are the sons of Japhlet. 34 And the sons of Shomer: Ahi and Rohgah, Jehubbah and Aram. 35 And the sons of Hotham, his brother: Zophah and Imna and Shelesh and Amal. 36 The 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 the sons of Jether: Jephunneh and Pispah and Ara. 39 And the sons of Ulla: Arah and Hanniel and Rizia. 40 All these were the children of Asher, heads of their families, specially strong men of war, chiefs of the rulers. They were recorded in the army for war, twenty-six thousand men in number.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on 1 Chronicles 7:22-44
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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.