1 Chronicles 7

1 Chronicles 7:1

7:1 Now the sons of Issachar [were], Tola, and Puah, \ Jashub, and Shimron, four.

(a) Who also is called Job, Genesis 46:13.

1 Chronicles 7:2

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.

(b) That is, their number was found to be this big when David counted the people, 2 Samuel 24:1.

1 Chronicles 7:3

7:3 And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, \ five: all of them chief men.

(c) Meaning, the four sons and the father.

1 Chronicles 7:6

7:6 [The sons] of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and \ Jediael, \ three.

(d) Also called Ashbel, Genesis 46:21, Numbers 26:38. (e) Who were the chief: or else there were seven in all as it appears in Genesis 46:21.

1 Chronicles 7:12

7:12 Shuppim also, and Huppim, the children of Ir, [and] Hushim, the sons of \ Aher.

(f) Meaning that he was not the son of Benjamin, but of Dan Genesis 46:23.

1 Chronicles 7:13

7:13 The sons of Naphtali; Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum, \ the sons of Bilhah.

(g) These came from Dan and Naphtali, who were the sons of Bilhah, Genesis 46:23-25.

1 Chronicles 7:18

7:18 And \ his sister Hammoleketh bare Ishod, and Abiezer, and Mahalah.

(h) Meaning, the sister of Gilead.

1 Chronicles 7:21

7:21 And Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of \ Gath [that were] born in [that] land slew, because they came down to take away their cattle.

(i) Which was one of the five principal cities of the Philistines and who slew the Ephraimites.

1 Chronicles 7:25

7:25 And Rephah [was] his \ son, also Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son,

(k) That is, of Ephraim.