1 Chronicles 7:1-6

1 Of the sons of Yissakhar: Tola, and Pu`ah, Yashuv, and Shimron, four.
2 The sons of Tola: `Uzzi, and Refayah, and Yeri'el, and Yachmai, and Yivsam, and Shemu'el, heads of their fathers' houses, [to wit], of Tola; mighty men of valor in their generations: their number in the days of David was twenty-two thousand six hundred.
3 The sons of `Uzzi: Yizrachyah. The sons of Yizrachyah: Mikha'el, and `Ovadyah, and Yo'el, Yishshiyah, five; all of them chief men.
4 With them, by their generations, after their fathers' houses, were bands of the host for war, thirty-six thousand; for they had many wives and sons.
5 Their brothers among all the families of Yissakhar, mighty men of valor, reckoned in all by genealogy, were eighty-seven thousand.
6 [The sons of] Binyamin: Bela, and Bekher, and Yedi`a'el, three.

1 Chronicles 7:1-6 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 CHRONICLES 7

In this chapter are given the genealogies of the tribes of Issachar, 1Ch 7:1-5 of Benjamin, 1Ch 7:6-12 Naphtali, 1Ch 7:13, of Manasseh, 1Ch 7:14-19 of Ephraim, 1Ch 7:20-29 and of Asher, 1Ch 7:30-40, even of the chief men of them; and their numbers are reckoned as in the times of David. The tribes of Dan and Zebulun are omitted.

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