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1 Chronicles 7:1-5 (Listen)

Descendants of Issachar

The sons1 of Issachar: Tola, iPuah, jJashub, and Shimron, four. The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers' houses, namely of Tola, mighty warriors of their generations, their number kin the days of David being 22,600. The son2 of Uzzi: Izrahiah. And the sons of Izrahiah: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah, all five of them were chief men. And along with them, by their generations, according to their fathers' houses, were units of the army for war, 36,000, for they had many wives and sons. Their kinsmen belonging to all the clans of Issachar were in all 87,000 mighty warriors, enrolled by genealogy.

Footnotes

[1] 7:1 Syriac (compare Vulgate); Hebrew And to the sons
[2] 7:3 Hebrew sons; also verses 10, 12, 17