1-Chronicles - 7:1



1 Of the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.

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Now the sons of Issachar were Thola, and Phua, Jasub and Simeron, four.
Now the sons of Issachar were, Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimrom, four.

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

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

Here is no account either of Zebulun or Daniel. We can assign no reason why they only should be omitted; but it is the disgrace of the tribe of Daniel, that idolatry began in that colony which fixed in Laish, and called it Daniel, Judges 18 and there one of the golden calves was set up by Jeroboam. Daniel is omitted, Revelation 7. Men become abominable when they forsake the worship of the true God, for any creature object.

SONS OF ISSACHAR. (1-Chronicles 7:1-5)
Jashub--or Job (Genesis 46:13).

Sons and families of Issachar. - 1-Chronicles 7:1. Instead of ולבני, we must certainly read בּני, as in 1-Chronicles 7:14, 1-Chronicles 7:30, or וּבני, as in 1-Chronicles 7:20; 1-Chronicles 5:11, and elsewhere. The לבני has come into the text only by the recollection of the copyist having dwelt on the so frequently recurring לבני in 1-Chronicles 6:42, 1-Chronicles 6:46-47, cf. 1-Chronicles 6:48, 1-Chronicles 6:56, 1-Chronicles 6:62, for it is not possible to take ל as the ל of introduction, because the names of the sons follow immediately. The names of the four sons are given as in Numbers 26:23., while in Genesis 46:13 the second is written פּוּה, and the third יוב; vide on Genesis. loc. cit.

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