The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron.
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The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron.
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And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron.
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And the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puvah, and Iob, and Shimron.
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- 1 Chronicles 12:32 Of the children of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, their heads were two hundred; and all their brothers were at their command.
- Genesis 30:14-18 Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother, Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.” Leah said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes, also?” Rachel said, “Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son’s mandrakes.” Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, “You must come in to me; for I have surely hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” He lay with her that night. God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son. Leah said, “God has given me my hire, because I gave my servant to my husband.” She named him Issachar.
- Genesis 35:23 The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob’s firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
- Genesis 49:14-15 “Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the saddlebags. He saw a resting place, that it was good, the land, that it was pleasant. He bows his shoulder to the burden, and becomes a servant doing forced labor.
- Numbers 1:8 Of Issachar: Nethanel the son of Zuar.
- Numbers 1:28-30 Of the children of Issachar, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war: those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty-four thousand four hundred. Of the children of Zebulun, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:
- Numbers 26:23-25 The sons of Issachar after their families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites; of Puvah, the family of the Punites; of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites; of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites. These are the families of Issachar according to those who were counted of them, sixty-four thousand three hundred.
- Deuteronomy 33:18 About Zebulun he said, “Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out; and Issachar, in your tents.
- 1 Chronicles 2:1 These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,
- 1 Chronicles 7:1-5 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. Their brothers among all the families of Issachar, mighty men of valor, listed in all by genealogy, were eighty-seven thousand.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the sons of Gad,.... A son of Jacob…
And the sons of Gad,.... A son of Jacob by Zilpah, Leah's maid; for the historian, before he proceeds to give an account of his sons by Rachel, finishes the account of all his sons by Leah and her maid:
Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, and Eri, and Arodi, and Areli; in all seven; the same number is given, and in the same order, Num 26:15.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 13. As in Num_26:20 f.
13. As in Num_26:20 f.
Tola] The judge of this name in Jdg_10:1 is also “the son of Puah,” and of the tribe of Issachar, a resemblance which can hardly be accidental.
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Puvah … Iob] In 1Ch_7:1, Puah, Jashub. See Num_26:23-24. Observe that Iob (= Yôb) is a different name from Job (= ’Iyyôb) in Job_1:1 ff.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (13) Issachar has four sons:
(13) Issachar has four sons:
Num_26:23-24. 1Ch_7:1.
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Tola,Tola,Tola,Phuvah,Pua,Puah,Job,Jashiib,Jaehub,Shimron.Shimron.Shimrom.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And the sons of Issachar; Tola, Scarlet" (Gesenius)and Phuvah,…
And the sons of Issachar; Tola, Scarlet" (Gesenius)and Phuvah, (Gesenius)and Job, perhaps an incorrect reading for Jashub ("Turning Oneself"), as in Num_26:24; 1Ch_7:1 (Gesenius) which the LXX adoptsand Shimron, (Gesenius).
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