1 Chronicles 7:1

The Descendants of Issachar

1 The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah, ^[a] Jashub, and Shimron—four in all.

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 in all.

2 The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, the heads of their families. In the days of David, 22,600 descendants of Tola were numbered in their genealogies as mighty men of valor.

3 The son of Uzzi: Izrahiah. The sons of Izrahiah: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah. All five of them were chiefs.

4 In addition to them, according to their genealogy, they had 36,000 troops for battle, for they had many wives and children.

5 Their kinsmen belonging to all the families of Issachar who were mighty men of valor totaled 87,000, as listed in their genealogies.

Footnotes

• [a]. Puah is a variant of Puvah; see Genesis 46:13 and Numbers 26:23.