Six Tribes and Sheerah the Builder

Issachar's mighty men "were in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred." Naphtali's sons appear in a single verse. Manasseh's line includes Zelophehad, "and Zelophehad had daughters."

Ephraim's sons Ezer and Elead are killed by the men of Gath while raiding cattle; "Ephraim their father mourned many days." He has another son, Beriah, "because it went evil with his house."

"(And his daughter was Sherah, who built Beth-horon the nether, and the upper, and Uzzen-sherah.)" The line runs to Joshua. Asher's descendants, "choice and mighty men of valour," are 26,000.

Sheerah

Sheerah is the only woman in the Bible credited with building cities. Lower and Upper Beth-horon guard the main pass from the coastal plain to the hill country. The library's Greek adds that she was "among those who survived."

Ephraim's grief

The story of Ephraim's sons killed by men of Gath while raiding is not in Genesis and seems to assume Ephraim lived in Canaan, unlike Genesis, where he lived in Egypt. Interpreters explain it as a later Ephraimite clan, or as a tradition independent of Genesis.

Missing tribes

Dan and Zebulun are not given genealogies (Dan may be hidden in "Hushim" in 7:12). Chronicles' tribal lists are uneven, perhaps reflecting the sources available to the writer.