1 Chronicles 7:5

5 And there were recorded among all the families of Issachar, great men of war, eighty-seven thousand.

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

4 And with them, recorded in generations by their families, were bands of fighting-men, thirty-six thousand of them, for they had a great number of wives and sons.

5 And there were recorded among all the families of Issachar, great men of war, eighty-seven thousand.

6 The sons of Benjamin: Bela and Becher and Jediael, three.

7 And the sons of Bela: Ezbon and Uzzi and Uzziel and Jerimoth and Iri, five; heads of their families, great men of war; there were twenty-two thousand and thirty-four of them recorded by their families.