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 e him 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 Non his son and Joshua his son . 28 Their possessions and settlements were Bethel with its towns , and to the east Naaran , and to the west Gezer with its towns , and Shechem with its towns as far as 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 .
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 became the father of Japhlet , 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 Shemer were Ahi and Rohgah , Jehubbah and Aram . 35 The 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 e men .
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.