1 Chronicles 7:1-5
Lexham English Bible
The Descendants of Issachar
7 The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four. 2 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. 3 The sons of Uzzi: Izrahiah. And the sons of Izrahiah: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah; all five of them were chiefs.[a] 4 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. 5 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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- 1 Chronicles 7:3 Or “heads”
- 1 Chronicles 7:4 Literally “there were”
1 Chronicles 7:1-5
International Standard Version
Genealogy of Issachar(A)
7 The four descendants of Issachar included[a] Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron. 2 Tola’s descendants included Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, leaders of their ancestral house of Tola, who were valiant warriors during their lifetimes. During the life of David, they numbered 22,600. 3 Uzzi fathered Izrahiah, and Izrahiah fathered Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah, all five of them leaders. 4 In addition to them, according to their ancestral records were 36,000 members of their trained army by their generations, because they had many wives and children. 5 As recorded in their genealogy, a total of 87,000 trained warriors belonged to all of the clans of Issachar.
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- 1 Chronicles 7:1 The Heb. lacks included; and so throughout the chapter
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