- Bible
- 1 Chronicles
- Chapter 7
- Verse 5
1 Chronicles 7:5
And their brethren among all the families of Issachar were valiant men of might, reckoned in all by their genealogies fourscore and seven thousand.
My Notes
Commentary
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
The sons of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three. Benjamin had ten sons, but three only are mentioned first; the latter of these seems to be the same with Ashbel, Gen 46:21.
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1 Chronicles…
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…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
men of might R.V. mighty men of valour (as 1Ch 7:2).