Chapter 7

1Now the sons of Issachar [were], Tola, and Puah, {a} Jashub, and Shimron, four.
(a) Who also is called Job, Ge 46:13.

2And 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; {b} 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, 2Sa 24:1.

3And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, {c} five: all of them chief men.
(c) Meaning, the four sons and the father.

6[The sons] of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and {d} Jediael, {e} three.
(d) Also called Ashbel, Ge 46:21, Nu 26:38. (e) Who were the chief: or else there were seven in all as it appears in Ge 46:21.

12Shuppim also, and Huppim, the children of Ir, [and] Hushim, the sons of {f} Aher.
(f) Meaning that he was not the son of Benjamin, but of Dan Ge 46:23.

13The sons of Naphtali; Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum, {g} the sons of Bilhah.
(g) These came from Dan and Naphtali, who were the sons of Bilhah, Ge 46:23,24,25.

18And {h} his sister Hammoleketh bare Ishod, and Abiezer, and Mahalah.
(h) Meaning, the sister of Gilead.

21And Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of {i} 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.

25And Rephah [was] his {k} son, also Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son,
(k) That is, of Ephraim.

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