'Descendants' in the Bible

Parosh’s descendants2,172

Shephatiah’s descendants372

Arah’s descendants652

Pahath-moab’s descendants: Jeshua’s and Joab’s descendants 2,818

Elam’s descendants1,254

Zattu’s descendants845

Zaccai’s descendants760

Binnui’s descendants648

Bebai’s descendants628

Azgad’s descendants2,322

Adonikam’s descendants667

Bigvai’s descendants2,067

Adin’s descendants655

Ater’s descendants: of Hezekiah98

Hashum’s descendants328

Bezai’s descendants324

Hariph’s descendants112

Gibeon’s descendants95

The priests included: Jedaiah’s descendants of the house of Jeshua 973

Immer’s descendants1,052

Pashhur’s descendants1,247

Harim’s descendants1,017.

The Levites included: Jeshua’s descendants: of Kadmiel Hodevah’s descendants 74.

The singers included: Asaph’s descendants 148.

The gatekeepers included: Shallum’s descendants, Ater’s descendants, Talmon’s descendants, Akkub’s descendants, Hatita’s descendants, Shobai’s descendants 138.

The temple servants included:Ziha’s descendants, Hasupha’s descendants,Tabbaoth’s descendants,

Keros’s descendants,Sia’s descendants, Padon’s descendants,

Lebanah’s descendants, Hagabah’s descendants,Shalmai’s descendants,

Hanan’s descendants,Giddel’s descendants, Gahar’s descendants,

Reaiah’s descendants, Rezin’s descendants,Nekoda’s descendants,

Gazzam’s descendants,Uzza’s descendants, Paseah’s descendants,

Besai’s descendants, Meunim’s descendants,Nephishesim’s descendants,

Bakbuk’s descendants,Hakupha’s descendants, Harhur’s descendants,

Bazlith’s descendants, Mehida’s descendants,Harsha’s descendants,

Barkos’s descendants,Sisera’s descendants, Temah’s descendants,

Neziah’s descendants, Hatipha’s descendants.

The descendants of Solomon’s servants included:Sotai’s descendants, Sophereth’s descendants,Perida’s descendants,

Jaala’s descendants,Darkon’s descendants, Giddel’s descendants,

Shephatiah’s descendants, Hattil’s descendants,Pochereth-hazzebaim’s descendants, Amon’s descendants.

All the temple servants and the descendants of Solomon’s servants 392.

Delaiah’s descendants, Tobiah’s descendants, and Nekoda’s descendants 642

and from the priests: the descendants of Hobaiah, the descendants of Hakkoz, and the descendants of Barzillai—who had taken a wife from the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite and was called by their name.

You found his heart faithful in Your sight,and made a covenant with himto give the land of the Canaanites,Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites,Jebusites, and Girgashites—to give it to his descendants.You have kept Your promise,for You are righteous.

You multiplied their descendantslike the stars of heavenand brought them to the landYou told their ancestors to go in and take possession of it.

So their descendants went in and possessed the land:You subdued the Canaanites who inhabited the land before themand handed their kings and the surrounding peoples over to them,to do as they pleased with them.

These are the heads of the province who stayed in Jerusalem (but in the villages of Judah each lived on his own property in their towns—the Israelites, priests, Levites, temple servants, and descendants of Solomon’s servants—

while some of the descendants of Judah and Benjamin settled in Jerusalem): Judah’s descendants: Athaiah son of Uzziah, son of Zechariah, son of Amariah, son of Shephatiah, son of Mahalalel, of Perez’s descendants;

The total number of Perez’s descendants, who settled in Jerusalem, was 468 capable men.

These were Benjamin’s descendants: Sallu son of Meshullam, son of Joed, son of Pedaiah, son of Kolaiah, son of Maaseiah, son of Ithiel, son of Jeshaiah,

The leader of the Levites in Jerusalem was Uzzi son of Bani, son of Hashabiah, son of Mattaniah, son of Mica, of the descendants of Asaph, who were singers for the service of God’s house.

Pethahiah son of Meshezabel, of the descendants of Zerah son of Judah, was the king’s agent in every matter concerning the people.

As for the farming settlements with their fields:Some of Judah’s descendants lived in Kiriath-arba and its villages,Dibon and its villages, and Jekabzeel and its villages;

Benjamin’s descendants:from Geba, Michmash, Aija,and Bethel—and its villages,

Levi’s descendants, the leaders of families, were recorded in the Book of the Historical Records during the days of Johanan son of Eliashib.

So in the days of Zerubbabel and Nehemiah, all Israel contributed the daily portions for the singers and gatekeepers. They also set aside daily portions for the Levites, and the Levites set aside daily portions for the descendants of Aaron.