1 Chronicles 7:3
in 1 Chronicles 7The son of Uzzi: Izrahiah. The sons of Izrahiah:
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And the sons of Uzzi: Izrahiah. And the sons of Izrahiah: Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Isshiah, five; all of them chief men.
KJV
And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five: all of them chief men.
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 7
Commentary
5 notes on this verseThe sons of Izrahiah - five - There are, however, only four names in the text. Instead of five, the Syriac and Arabic read four. If five be the true reading, then Izrahiah must be reckoned with his four sons.
This site's exposition
the sons of Issachar were
on 1 Chronicles 7:1-5
Issachar's list runs four generations deep with a troop count at each stage, closing at eighty seven thousand fighting men reckoned by genealogy. Adam Clarke notes that Issachar, Benjamin and Asher are the only three tribes whose David-era musters survive in this record, a detail Chronicles alone preserves. Gill traces the large numbers to polygamy, the tribe's many wives and sons named outright at verse four.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
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 of them chief men; in their father's house, heads of families.
Those that were inured to labour and business were of all men the fittest to serve their country when there was occasion, The number of the respective families, as taken in the days of David, is here set down, amounting in the whole to above 145,000 men fit for war. The account, some think, was taken when Joab numbered the people, 2 Sam. xxiv.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
five: all of them chief men--Four only are mentioned; so that as they are stated to be five, in this number the father, Izrahiah, must be considered as included; otherwise one of the names must have dropped out of the text.
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The words behind it
12 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּבְנֵ֥י | uvenei | and [the] sons of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| עֻזִּ֖י | ʾuzi | Uzzi | H5813 → | 11 times |
| יִֽזְרַֽחְיָ֑ה | yizrachyah | Izrahiah | H3156 → | |
| וּבְנֵ֣י | uvenei | and [the] sons | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| יִֽזְרַֽחְיָ֗ה | yizrachyah | Izrahiah | H3156 → | |
| מִֽיכָאֵ֡ל | mikhael | Michael | H4317 → | 13 times |
| וְ֠עֹבַדְיָה | veoadyah | and Obadiah | H5662 → | 20 times |
| וְיוֹאֵ֧ל | veyoel | and Joel | H3100 → | 20 times |
| יִשִּׁיָּ֛ה | yishiyah | Isshiah | H3449 → | 7 times |
| חֲמִשָּׁ֖ה | chamishah | five | H2568 → | 343 times |
| רָאשִׁ֥ים | rashim | chiefs | H7218 → | 599 times |
| כֻּלָּֽם׃ | kulam | all of them | H3605 → | 5413 times |
וּבְנֵ֥יand [the] sons of
uveneiH1121 →4930 times
עֻזִּ֖יUzzi
ʾuziH5813 →11 times
יִֽזְרַֽחְיָ֑הIzrahiah
yizrachyahH3156 →
וּבְנֵ֣יand [the] sons
uveneiH1121 →4930 times
יִֽזְרַֽחְיָ֗הIzrahiah
yizrachyahH3156 →
מִֽיכָאֵ֡לMichael
mikhaelH4317 →13 times
וְ֠עֹבַדְיָהand Obadiah
veoadyahH5662 →20 times
וְיוֹאֵ֧לand Joel
veyoelH3100 →20 times
יִשִּׁיָּ֛הIsshiah
yishiyahH3449 →7 times
חֲמִשָּׁ֖הfive
chamishahH2568 →343 times
רָאשִׁ֥יםchiefs
rashimH7218 →599 times
כֻּלָּֽם׃all of them
kulamH3605 →5413 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
About 1 Chronicles

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.
