1 Chronicles 7:5

5 Their kinsmen belonging to all the families of Is'sachar were in all eighty-seven thousand mighty warriors, enrolled by genealogy.

1 Chronicles 7:5 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 7:5

And their brethren among all the families of Issachar
As those of Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, ( 1 Chronicles 7:1 )

were men of might;
valiant and courageous:

reckoned in all, by their genealogies, fourscore and seven thousand;
that is, including with these those of Tola and Uzzi before given.

1 Chronicles 7:5 In-Context

3 The sons of Uzzi: Izrahi'ah. And the sons of Izrahi'ah: Michael, Obadi'ah, Jo'el, and Isshi'ah, five, all of them chief men;
4 and along with them, by their generations, according to their fathers' houses, were units of the army for war, thirty-six thousand, for they had many wives and sons.
5 Their kinsmen belonging to all the families of Is'sachar were in all eighty-seven thousand mighty warriors, enrolled by genealogy.
6 The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, and Jedi'a-el, three.
7 The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uz'ziel, Jer'imoth, and Iri, five, heads of fathers' houses, mighty warriors; and their enrollment by genealogies was twenty-two thousand and thirty-four.
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