Teks -- 1 Chronicles 7:1-6 (NET)

Issachar’s Descendants

7:1 The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron– four in all. 7:2 The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Jibsam, and Samuel. They were leaders of their families. In the time of David there were 22,600 warriors listed in Tola’s genealogical records. 7:3 The son of Uzzi: Izrachiah. The sons of Izrahiah: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah. All five were leaders. 7:4 According to the genealogical records of their families, they had 36,000 warriors available for battle, for they had numerous wives and sons. 7:5 Altogether the genealogical records of the clans of Issachar listed 87,000 warriors.

Benjamin’s Descendants

7:6 The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Beker, and Jediael– three in all.

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Wesley: 1Ch 7:6 - Three

They were ten, Gen 46:25, and five of them are named, 1Ch 8:1, but here only three are mentioned, either because these were most eminent; or because the other families are now extinct.

JFB: 1Ch 7:1 - Jashub

Or Job (Gen 46:13).

JFB: 1Ch 7:2 - whose number was in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred

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 mind, since we find here the tribe of Benjamin enumerated [1Ch 7:6-12], which was not taken in David's time; and there are other points of dissimilarity.

JFB: 1Ch 7:3 - five: all of them chief men

Four only are mentioned; so that as they are stated to be five, in this number the father, Izrahiah, must be considered as included; otherwise one of the names must have dropped out of the text. They were each at the head of a numerous and influential division of their tribe.

JFB: 1Ch 7:5 - fourscore and seven thousand

Exclusive of the 58,600 men which the Tola branch had produced (1Ch 7:24), so that in the days of David the tribe would have contained a population of 45,600. This large increase was owing to the practice of polygamy, as well as the fruitfulness of the women. A plurality of wives, though tolerated among the Hebrews, was confined chiefly to the great and wealthy; but it seems to have been generally esteemed a privilege by the tribe of Issachar, "for they had many wives and sons" [1Ch 7:4].

JFB: 1Ch 7:6 - The sons of Benjamin

Ten are named in Gen 46:21, but only five later (1Ch 8:1; Num 26:38). Perhaps five of them were distinguished as chiefs of illustrious families, but two having fallen in the bloody wars waged against Benjamin (Jdg 20:46), there remained only three branches of this tribe, and these only are enumerated.

JFB: 1Ch 7:6 - Jediael

Or Asbel (Genesis 46. 21).

Clarke: 1Ch 7:2 - Whose number was in the days of David

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.

Clarke: 1Ch 7:3 - The sons of Izrahiah - five

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.

Clarke: 1Ch 7:6 - The sons of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher and Jediael

The sons of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher and Jediael - In Gen 46:21, ten sons of Benjamin are reckoned; viz., Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Eri, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard. In Num 26:38, etc., five sons only of Benjamin are mentioned, Bela, Ashbel, Ahiram, Shupham, and Hupham: and Ard and Naaman are there said to be the sons of Bela; consequently grandsons of Benjamin. In the beginning of the following chapter, five sons of Benjamin are mentioned, viz., Bela, Ashbel, Aharah, Nohah, and Rapha; where also Addar, Gera, Abihud, Abishua, Naaman, Ahoah, a second Gera, Shephuphan, and Huram, are all represented as grandsons, not sons, of Benjamin: hence we see that in many cases grandsons are called sons, and both are often confounded in the genealogical tables. To attempt to reconcile such discrepancies would be a task as endless as it would be useless. The rabbins say that Ezra, who wrote this book, did not know whether some of these were sons or grandsons; and they intimate also that the tables from which he copied were often defective, and here we must leave all such matters.

TSK: 1Ch 7:1

Gen 46:13, Phuvah, Job, Num 26:23, Num 26:24, Pua

TSK: 1Ch 7:2 - whose number

whose number : This was probably the number returned by Joab and his assistants, when they made that census of the people with which God was so much displeased. We find that the effective men of Issachar amounted to 87,000 (1Ch 7:5); 22,600 of whom descended from Tola his eldest son; but whether the 36,000 (1Ch 7:4) were descendants of Tola by Uzzi, and the 22,600 his descendants by Tola’ s other sons; or whether another of Issachar’ s sons be intended, does not clearly appear; though the former seems the more obvious meaning. 1Ch 21:1-5, 1Ch 27:1, 1Ch 27:23, 1Ch 27:24; 2Sa 24:1-9

TSK: 1Ch 7:4

1Ch 12:32

TSK: 1Ch 7:6 - of Benjamin // Jediael

of Benjamin : In the parallel place of Genesis, ten sons of Benjamin are reckoned, Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard; and in Numbers, five only are mentioned, Bela, Ashbel, Ahiraim, Shupham, and Hupham; and Ard and Naaman are said to be the sons of Bela, and consequently Benjamin’ s grandsons. In the beginning of the following chapter, also, five are only mentioned, Bela, Ashbel, Aharah, Nohah, and Rapha; and Addar, Gera, Abihud, Abishua, Naaman, Ahoha, another Gera, Shephuphan, and Huram, are all represented as grandsons, not sons of Benjamin. Hence we see that in many cases, grandsons are called sons, and both are often confounded in the genealogical tables. It seems, also, that the persons mentioned in the following verses were neither sons nor grandsons of Bela and Becher, but distinguished persons among their descendants. 1Ch 8:1-12; Gen 46:21; Num 26:38-41

Jediael : 1Ch 7:10, 1Ch 7:11

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Poole: 1Ch 7:1 - Jashub

Jashub called, by way of contraction, Job , Gen 46:13 .

Poole: 1Ch 7:2 - In the days of David

In the days of David when he numbered the people, 2Sa 24:1 , &c.

Poole: 1Ch 7:3 - The sons // Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five // Izrahiah

The sons for the son ; for he names but one son.

Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five including their father

Izrahiah

Poole: 1Ch 7:4 - Six and thirty thousand men

Six and thirty thousand men to wit, of the posterity of Uzzi, as the other twenty-two thousand six hundred, 1Ch 7:2 , were the posterity of Tola.

Poole: 1Ch 7:6

There were ten, Gen 46:21 , and five of them are named, 1Ch 8:1 , but here only three are mentioned, either because these were most eminent for courage or fruitfulness, or because the other families were now extinct.

Haydock: 1Ch 7:1 - Jasub // Simeron

Jasub, or Job. See Genesis xlvi. 13., and Numbers xxvi. 23. (Calmet) ---

Simeron, elsewhere Samron and Semran; (Menochius) which shews, either that the names have been differently pronounced, or that the transcribers have erred. (Haydock)

Haydock: 1Ch 7:2 - Chiefs // David

Chiefs. They were at the head of distinct families. (Menochius) ---

David. We know that David took an account of his fighting men, 2 Kings xxiv. But it is not certain that this register was made at that time; as we read that Benjamin was not numbered, chap. xxi. 6. These lists were probably made when some expedition was intended by David. The author was not, perhaps, able to recover the accounts of Nephthali, Manasses, and Ephraim, no more that the genealogies of Dan (ver. 12) and Zabulon, which do not appear in this book. (Calmet)

Haydock: 1Ch 7:3 - Sons // Izrahia // Five

Sons, for "the son." (Du Hamel) ---

Izrahia. He alone deserved to be mentioned. See ver. 6, where only three sons of Benjamin appear, though there were more, chap. viii. 2. (Tirinus) ---

Five, comprising Israhia, "all chiefs," (Haydock) men of note, (Du Hamel) or one name may be lost. (Calmet)

Haydock: 1Ch 7:4 - Children

Children, who had numerous offspring; (Haydock) so that, in the days of David, these descendants of Thola, amounted to so many. (Menochius)

Haydock: 1Ch 7:5 - War

War. In all, this tribe could muster 145,600 men, at that time. (Calmet)

Haydock: 1Ch 7:6 - Benjamin // Jadihel

Benjamin; a man, perhaps, of the tribe of Issachar. See ver. 10. Or the patriarch had originally ten sons, (Genesis xlvi. 21.) or grandsons, five of whom only had children, and perhaps two of their families perished entirely in the war with the other tribes; (Judges xx. 46.) so that, under David, only three branches were acknowledged. (Calmet) ---

Jadihel, or Asbel in Genesis.

Gill: 1Ch 7:1 - Now the sons of Issachar were Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.

Now the sons of Issachar were Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four. The same number is given, Gen 46:13 with a small variation of two of their names, there called Phuvah and Job, from whence so many families sprang, mentioned Num 26:23, where the names are the same as here.

Gill: 1Ch 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

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, 1Ch 21:5.

Gill: 1Ch 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

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.

Gill: 1Ch 7:4 - And with them, by their generations, after the house of their fathers, were bands of soldiers for war // six and thirty thousand men // for they had many wives and sons

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, 1Ch 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, according to the divine promise.

Gill: 1Ch 7:5 - And their brethren among all the families of Issachar // were men of might // reckoned in all, by their genealogies, fourscore and seven thousand

And their brethren among all the families of Issachar,.... As those of Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, 1Ch 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.

Gill: 1Ch 7:6 - The sons of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.

The sons of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three. Benjamin had ten sons, but three only are mentioned first; the latter of these seems to be the same with Ashbel, Gen 46:21.