1 Chronicles 7:1

The Descendants of Issachar

1 The sons of Issachar: 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 The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.

2 The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers' houses; for Tola, mighty warriors of their generations, their number in the days of David [were] twenty-two thousand six hundred.

3 The sons of Uzzi: Izrahiah. And the sons of Izrahiah: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah; all five of them [were] chiefs.

4 And in addition to them, according to their generations, according to the house of their fathers, [were] troops of the army for war: thirty-six thousand. For {they had} many wives and sons.

5 Now their kinsmen belonging to all the clans of Issachar [were] in all eighty-seven thousand mighty warriors, enrolled according to their genealogy.