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 , where the names are the same as here. read more
And the sons of Tola ,.... The eldest son of Issachar, whose posterity are only reckoned by name: Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father's house, to wit, of Tola ; the principal man of his family: they were valiant men of might in their generations , famous for their courage and military exploits, though they sprang from Tola, whose name signifies "a worm"; and which name Bochart F11 Hierozoic. par. 2. l. 4. c. 21. col. 630. ... read more
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. read more
And with them, by their generations, after the house of their fathers, were bands of soldiers for war ,.... Companies of men of military courage and skill, who could and did go out to war upon occasion: six and thirty thousand men ; besides the 22,600 Tolaites, 1 Chronicles 7:2 , for they had many wives and sons ; having many wives, they had many sons; polygamy was the cause of their large numbers; and that they gave into for the sake of the multiplication of Abraham's seed,... read more
And their brethren among all the families of Issachar ,.... As those of Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, 1 Chronicles 7:1 . were men of might ; valiant and courageous: reckoned in all, by their genealogies, fourscore and seven thousand ; that is, including with these those of Tola and Uzzi before given. read more
Whose number was in the days of David - Whether this was the number returned by Joab and his assistants, when they made that census of the people with which God was so much displeased, we know not. It is worthy of remark that we read here the sum of three tribes, Benjamin, Issachar, and Asher, under the reign of David, which is mentioned nowhere else; and yet we have no account here of the other tribes, probably because the author found no public registers in which such... read more
The sons of Izrahiah - five - There are, however, only four names in the text. Instead of five, the Syriac and Arabic read four. If five be the true reading, then Izrahiah must be reckoned with his four sons. read more
EXPOSITION The great tribes of Judah and Levi being now passed, as well as the minor ones of Simeon, Reuben, and Gad, we reach the sons of Issachar . Issachar was Jacob's fifth son by Leah ( Genesis 35:23 ). In the list of Genesis 46:13 our Puah ( פוּאָח ) appears differently spelt as Phuvah ( פֻוָּח ), and Jashub is found as Job, which is corrected by the Samaritan Codex to Jashub, and this reading the Septuagint follows. In the other parallel passage ( Numbers 26:23 ... read more
The six sons of Tola given here are stated to be the six heads of the house at the time of the census of David ( 2 Samuel 24:1-17 ). The verse further states that the Tolaites had grown to number at that time twenty-two thousand six hundred , and as this fact is not stated elsewhere, it is pretty clear proof that the compiler had other sources of information in addition to those possessed by us. read more
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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Chronicles 7:1-19
We have here a short view given us, I. Of the tribe of Issachar, whom Jacob had compared to a strong ass, couching between two burdens (Gen. 49:14), an industrious tribe, that minded their country business very closely and rejoiced in their tents, Deut. 33:18. And here it appears, 1. That they were a numerous tribe; for they had many wives. So fruitful their country was that they saw no danger of over-stocking the pasture, and so ingenious the people were that they could find work for all... read more