1 Chronicles 7:3

3 The son^[a] of Uzzi: Izrahiah. And the sons of Izrahiah: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah, all five of them were chief men.

1 Chronicles 7:3 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 7:3

And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah
Including his posterity:

and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five;
together with their father, all reckoned the sons of Uzzi:

all of them chief men;
in their father's house, heads of families.

1 Chronicles 7:3 In-Context

1 The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.

2 The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers' houses, namely of Tola, mighty warriors of their generations, their number in the days of David being 22,600.

3 The son of Uzzi: Izrahiah. And the sons of Izrahiah: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah, all five of them were chief men.

4 And along with them, by their generations, according to their fathers' houses, were units of the army for war, 36,000, for they had many wives and sons.

5 Their kinsmen belonging to all the clans of Issachar were in all 87,000 mighty warriors, enrolled by genealogy.

Footnotes

• [a]. Hebrew sons; also verses 10, 12, 17