Chronicles I 7:2

2 And the sons of Thola; Ozi, Raphaia, and Jeriel, and Jamai, and Jemasan, and Samuel, chiefs of their fathers' houses Thola, men of might according to their generations; their number in the days of David twenty and two thousand and six hundred.

Chronicles I 7:2 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 7:2

And the sons of Tola
The eldest son of Issachar, whose posterity are only reckoned by name:

Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel,
heads of their father's house, to wit, of Tola;
the principal man of his family:

[they] were valiant men of might in their generations,
famous for their courage and military exploits, though they sprang from Tola, whose name signifies "a worm"; and which name Bochart ^F11 conjectures was given him by his parents, because he was so weakly that they had no hopes of raising him; and yet from him sprung such mighty men, and from them such a numerous race, as follows:

whose number was, in the days of David, two and twenty thousand and six
hundred;
besides those of the posterity of Uzzi, after mentioned. This was at the time Joab took the number of Israel, by the order of David, ( 1 Chronicles 21:5 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F11 Hierozoic. par. 2. l. 4. c. 21. col. 630.

Chronicles I 7:2 In-Context

1 And to the sons of Issachar, Thola, and Phua, and Jasub, and Semeron, four.

2 And the sons of Thola; Ozi, Raphaia, and Jeriel, and Jamai, and Jemasan, and Samuel, chiefs of their fathers' houses Thola, men of might according to their generations; their number in the days of David twenty and two thousand and six hundred.

3 And the sons of Ozi; Jezraia: and the sons of Jezraia; Michael, Abdiu, and Joel, and Jesia, five, all rulers.

4 And with them, according to their generations, according to the houses of their families, mighty to set in array for war, thirty and six thousand, for they had multiplied wives and children.

5 And their brethren among all the families of Issachar, also mighty men, eighty-seven thousand— the number of them all.