Bible Commentaries

Now the sons of Issachar [were], Tola, and Puah, ^a Jashub, and Shimron, four.

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

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; ^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, (2 Samuel 24:1).

And 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.

[The sons] of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and ^d Jediael, ^e 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).

Shuppim 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 (Genesis 46:23).

The 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, (Genesis 46:23-25).

And ^h his sister Hammoleketh bare Ishod, and Abiezer, and Mahalah.

(h) Meaning, the sister of Gilead.

And 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.

And Rephah [was] his ^k son, also Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son,

(k) That is, of Ephraim.