Issachar’s Descendants

Issachar’s sons:(A) Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron—four.

Tola’s sons: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, the heads of their ancestral families.[a] During David’s reign, 22,600 descendants of Tola were recorded as valiant warriors in their family records.(B)

Uzzi’s son: Izrahiah.

Izrahiah’s sons: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, Isshiah. All five of them were chiefs. Along with them, they had 36,000 troops for battle according to the family records of their ancestral families, for they had many wives and children. Their tribesmen who were valiant warriors belonging to all the families of Issachar totaled 87,000 in their genealogies.

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Footnotes

  1. 7:2 Lit the house of their fathers, also in vv. 4,7,9,40

The Descendants of Issachar

The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four. The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers’ houses; for Tola, mighty warriors of their generations, their number in the days of David were twenty-two thousand six hundred. The sons of Uzzi: Izrahiah. And the sons of Izrahiah: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah; all five of them were chiefs.[a] And in addition to them, according to their generations, according to the house of their fathers, were troops of the army for war: thirty-six thousand. For they had[b] many wives and sons. Now their kinsmen belonging to all the clans of Issachar were in all eighty-seven thousand mighty warriors, enrolled according to their genealogy.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 7:3 Or “heads”
  2. 1 Chronicles 7:4 Literally “there were”