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; whose number was in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred.
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Gill's Exposition
And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah,.... Including his posterity:
and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five; together with their father, all reckoned the sons of Uzzi:
all…
Barnes' Notes
Whose number was in the days of David ... - The writer would seem by this passage to have had access to the statistics of the tribes collected by David, when he sinfully “numbered the people”…
Adam Clarke
Whose number was in the days of David - Whether this was the number returned by Joab and his assistants, when they made that census of the people with which God was so much displeased, we know not. It…
We have here a short view given us,
I. Of the tribe of Issachar, whom Jacob had compared to a strong ass, couching between two burdens (Gen 49:14), an industrious tribe, that minded their country…
Cambridge Bible
of their fathers" house R.V. of their fathers" houses. Cp. 1Ch 7:4; 1Ch 7:9; 1Ch 7:40. Fathers" housesis an awkward term for "clans, patriarchal families" (Greek πατριαί).
valiantmen of might R.V.…
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