1 Chronicles 7:2

_AND THE SONS OF TOLA; UZZI, AND REPHAIAH, AND JERIEL, AND JAHMAI, AND JIBSAM, AND SHEMUEL, HEADS OF THEIR FATHER'S HOUSE, TO WIT, OF TOLA: THEY WERE VALIANT MEN OF MIGHT IN THEIR GENERATIONS; WHOSE NUMBER WAS IN THE DAYS OF DAVID TWO AND TWENTY THOUSAND AND SIX HUNDRED._ Whose number was, in the days of David. Although a census was taken in the reign of David by order of that monarch, it is not certain that the sacred historian had it in his eye, since we find here the tribe of Benjamin enumerated, which was not taken in David's time: and there are other points of dissimilarity....

Verse 1 Chronicles 7:2. _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 enumeration was recorded....

WHOSE NUMBER WAS IN THE DAYS OF DAVID ... - The writer would seem by this passage to have had access to the statistics of the tribes collected by David, when he sinfully “numbered the people” (marginal reference). The numbers given in 1 Chronicles 7:4 probably came from the same source....

EXPOSITION 1 CHRONICLES 7:1 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) the Phuvah form obtains, but the other names are the same as her

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 k conjectures was given him by his parents, because he was so weakly that they had no hopes of raising him; and yet from him sprung such mighty men, and from them such a numerous race, as follows: WHOSE NUMBER WAS, IN THE DAYS OF DAVID, TWO AND TWENTY THOUSAND AND SIX HUNDRED; besides those of the posterity of Uzzi, after mentioned. This was at the time Joab took the number of Israel, by the order of David,...

5. ISSACHAR, NAPHTALI, HALF MANASSEH, EPHRAIM, AND ASHER CHAPTER 7 _ 1. Issachar (1 Chronicles 7:1)_ 2. Of Benjamin (1 Chronicles 7:6) 3. Naphtali (1 Chronicles 7:13) 4. Half Manasseh (1 Chronicles 7:14) 5. Ephraim (1 Chronicles 7:20) 6. Asher (1 Chronicles 7:30) The other tribes are given except Dan and Zebulun, which are missing. Issachar's had the t

PART I (1 Chronicles 1-9). GENEALOGICAL LISTS, TOGETHER WITH GEOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL NOTES. These Chapter s form a general introduction to the whole work. They contain the following genealogies, often in an incomplete form: Adam to Israel (1 Chronicles 1:1 to 1 Chronicles 2:2) with the exception of Cain's descendants (Genesis 4:16) the whole material is taken from Genesis 1-36; Judah (1 Chronicles 2:3); David (1 Chronicles 3:1); Judah again, and made up of fragments ...

THE SONS OF TOLA. Descendants of younger sons are contrasted with his firstborn Uzzi (verses: 1 Chronicles 7:3). These names occur nowhere else, and prove Chronicles to be entirely independent. IN THE DAYS OF DAVID. When he numbered the people (2 Samuel 24)....

The Genealogy of Issachar 1. _the sons of Issachar_ Genesis 46:13; Numbers 26:23-24. _Puah_ In Gen. and Num. _Puvah_(R.V.), but in Judges 10:1 _Puah_as here. A descendant of _Puah_named _Tola_was one of the Judges. _Jashub_ So in Num., but in Gen. _Iob_(not _Iyob_as in Job 1:1, R.V. mg)....

LESSON THREE 7-8 I. GENEALOGIES FROM ADAM TO DAVID (1 Chronicles 1:1 to 1 Chronicles 9:44) 9. THE DESCENDANTS OF THE TRIBE OF ISSACHAR (1 Chronicles 7:1-5) INTRODUCTION The representatives of other tribes of Israel clearly identifiable in David's day are mentioned in this section. Joshua and Saul are prominent names appearing in this account. TEXT 1 Chronicles 7:1. And of the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four. 2. And the sons of Tola: Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers-' house