1 Chronicles 7:3

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

1 Chronicles 7:3 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 7:3

And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah
Including his posterity:

and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five;
together with their father, all reckoned the sons of Uzzi:

all of them chief men;
in their father's house, heads of families.

1 Chronicles 7:3 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.

Footnotes

• [a] Or "heads"