1 Chronicles 7:1

Issachar's Descendants

1 Issachar's sons:^[a] 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 Issachar's sons: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron-four.

2 Tola's sons: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, the heads of their ancestral houses. During David's reign, 22,600 descendants of Tola were recorded as warriors in their genealogies.

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

4 Along with them, they had 36,000 troops for battle according to the genealogical records of their ancestral houses, for they had many wives and children.

5 Their tribesmen who were warriors belonging to all the families of Issachar totalled 87,000 in their genealogies.

Footnotes

• [a]. Gn 46:13