1 Chronicles 26:4

4 `Oved-'Edom had sons: Shemayah the firstborn, Yehozavad the second, Yo'ach the third, and Sacar the fourth, and Netan'el the fifth,

1 Chronicles 26:4 Meaning and Commentary

Ver. 4,5. Moreover, the sons of Obededom
The same at whose house the ark was, before it was brought by David to Zion; his sons were porters also, as himself, ( 1 Chronicles 15:24 ) ( 16:38 ) , mention is made of eight sons of his, according to their birth: Shemaiah, Jehozabad, Joah, Sacar, Nethaneel, Ammiel, Issachar,
Peulthai; for God blessed him;
as with wealth and riches, so with a numerous offspring, and that because of his entertainment of the ark at his house; the great increase of his family is aggravated by the Jews

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FOOTNOTES:

F17 beyond all credit, that all in his family brought eight at a birth; the Targum here makes them eighty two in all.
F17 Hieron. Trad. Heb. in 2. Reg. fol. 77. M.

1 Chronicles 26:4 In-Context

2 Meshelemyah had sons: Zekharyah the firstborn, Yedi`a'el the second, Zevadyah the third, Yatni'el the fourth,

3 `Elam the fifth, Yehochanan the sixth, Elyeho`enai the seventh.

4 `Oved-'Edom had sons: Shemayah the firstborn, Yehozavad the second, Yo'ach the third, and Sacar the fourth, and Netan'el the fifth,

5 `Ammi'el the sixth, Yissakhar the seventh, Peullethai the eighth; for God blessed him.

6 Also to Shemayah his son were sons born, who ruled over the house of their father; for they were mighty men of valor.