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1 Chronicles 7:2

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The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, the heads of their families. In the days of David, 22,600 descendants of Tola were numbered in their genealogies as mighty men of valor.

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ASV

And the sons of Tola: Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers’ houses, to wit, of Tola; mighty men of valor in their generations: their number in the days of David was two and twenty thousand and six hundred.

KJV

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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This verse in 1 Chronicles 7

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

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 is worthy of remark that we read here the sum of three tribes, Benjamin, Issachar, and Asher, under the reign of David, which is mentioned nowhere else; and yet we have no account here of the other tribes, probably because the author found no public registers in which such enumeration was recorded.

This site's exposition

The sons of Issachar

on 1 Chronicles 7:1-5

Issachar's list runs four generations deep and closes at 87,000 mighty men of valor. Adam Clarke notes that Issachar, Benjamin and Asher are the only three tribes whose David-era musters survive. Gill traces the large numbers to polygamy, and verse 4 gives the cause: they had many wives and children.

This site's exposition

The sons of Tola

Clarke notes that this chapter gives counts for Issachar, Benjamin and Asher alone, and that it is unknown whether they came from Joab's census. A later Tola son of Puah, of Issachar, judged Israel twenty-three years (Judges 10:1 to 2). He bore the clan founder's name.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And the sons of Tola,....

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

whose number was in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred--Although a census was taken in the reign of David by order of that monarch, it is not certain that the sacred historian had it in mind, since we find here the tribe of Benjamin enumerated [1Ch 7:6-12], which was not taken in David's time; and there are other points of dissimilarity.

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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” (marginal reference). The numbers given in 1Ch 7:4-5 probably came from the same source.

The words behind it

23 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וּבְנֵ֣יand [the] sons of

    uveneiH1121 →4930 times

  • תוֹלָ֗עTola

    tola'H8439 →6 times

  • עֻזִּ֡יUzzi

    ʾuziH5813 →11 times

  • וּרְפָיָ֡הand Rephaiah

    urefayahH7509 →5 times

  • וִֽ֠ירִיאֵלand Jeriel

    virielH3400 →

  • וְיַחְמַ֨יand Jahmai

    veyachmaiH3181 →

  • וְיִבְשָׂ֜םand Jibsam

    veyivsamH3005 →

  • וּשְׁמוּאֵ֗לand Samuel

    ushemuelH8050 →141 times

  • רָאשִׁ֤יםchiefs

    rashimH7218 →599 times

  • לְבֵית־of [the] house of

    leveit-H1004 →2046 times

  • אֲבוֹתָם֙ancestors their

    ʾavotamH1 →1212 times

  • לְתוֹלָ֔עof Tola

    letola'H8439 →6 times

  • גִּבּ֥וֹרֵיmighty [men] of

    giboreiH1368 →158 times

  • חַ֖יִלstrength

    chayilH2428 →246 times

  • לְתֹלְדוֹתָ֑םto generations their

    letoledotamH8435 →39 times

  • מִסְפָּרָם֙number their

    misparamH4557 →134 times

  • בִּימֵ֣יin [the] days of

    bimeiH3117 →2304 times

  • דָוִ֔ידDavid

    davidH1732 →999 times

  • עֶשְׂרִֽים־[was] twenty

    ʾesrim-H6242 →315 times

  • וּשְׁנַ֥יִםand two

    ushenayimH8147 →768 times

  • אֶ֖לֶףthousand

    ʾelefH505 →505 times

  • וְשֵׁ֥שׁand six

    vesheshH8337 →216 times

  • מֵאֽוֹת׃ סhundred<s>

    meotH3967 →581 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

5 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

2 Samuel 24:1–9Again the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He stirred up David against them, saying, “Go and take a census of Israel and Judah.”3 works1 Chronicles 21:1–5Then Satan rose up against Israel and incited David to take a census of Israel.2 works1 Chronicles 27:23–24David did not count the men aged twenty or under, because the LORD had said that He would make Israel as numerous as the stars of the sky.2 works1 Chronicles 27:1This is the list of the Israelites—the heads of families, the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and their officers who served the king in every matter concerning the divisions on rotating military duty each month throughout the year. There were 24,000 men in each division:2 worksExodus 6:14These were the heads of their fathers’ houses: The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, were Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi. These were the clans of Reuben.2 works

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    1 Chronicles 27:1

    This is the list of the Israelites—the heads of families, the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and their officers who served the king in every matter concerning the divisions on rotating military duty…

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 5:14

      He sent them to Lebanon in monthly shifts of 10,000 men, so that they would spend one month in Lebanon and two months at home. And Adoniram was in charge of the forced labor.

    • 1 Kings 4:27

      Each month the governors in turn provided food for King Solomon and all who came to his table. They saw to it that nothing was lacking.

    • Deuteronomy 1:15

      So I took the leaders of your tribes, wise and respected men, and appointed them as leaders over you—as commanders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens, and as officers for your…

    • Micah 5:2

      But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come forth for Me One to be ruler over Israel—One whose origins are of old, from the days…

    • 2 Chronicles 17:12–19

      Jehoshaphat grew stronger and stronger, and he built fortresses and store cities in Judah

About 1 Chronicles

King David Playing the Harp, Gerard van Honthorst, 1622. Public domain.
King David Playing the Harp, Gerard van Honthorst, 1622. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Berean Standard Bible, Judges 10:1 to 2; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).

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