1 Chronicles 7:1

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

1 Chronicles 7:1 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 7:1

Now the sons of Issachar were Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron,
four.
] The same number is given, ( Genesis 46:13 ) with a small variation of two of their names, there called Phuvah and Job, from whence so many families sprang, mentioned ( Numbers 26:23 Numbers 26:24 ) , where the names are the same as here.

1 Chronicles 7:1 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 ancestral houses, namely of Tola, mighty warriors of their generations, their number in the days of David being twenty-two thousand six hundred.

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

4 and along with them, by their generations, according to their ancestral houses, were units of the fighting force, thirty-six thousand, for they had many wives and sons.

5 Their kindred belonging to all the families of Issachar were in all eighty-seven thousand mighty warriors, enrolled by genealogy.

Footnotes

• [a]. Syr Compare Vg: Heb [And to the sons]