📖WEB · 1 Chronicles 7:1
What does 1 Chronicles 7:1 mean?
"Of the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four."
— 1 Chronicles 7:1 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Of the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.
The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers’ houses, of Tola; mighty men of valor in their generations. Their number in the days of David was twenty-two thousand six hundred.
The son of Uzzi: Izrahiah. The sons of Izrahiah: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah, five; all of them chief men.
With them, by their generations, after their fathers’ houses, were bands of the army for war, thirty-six thousand; for they had many wives and sons.
Explanation
First Chronicles 7:1 is a simple genealogical notice: it names the four sons of Issachar—Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron. On the surface, this is nothing more than a list, but in the context of Chronicles, such lists carry real weight. They are not filler; they are the building blocks by which the Chronicler recon
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