1–5.
The Genealogy of Issachar.
¹And of the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Puah[¹], Jashub, and Shimron, four.
[¹] In Genesis xlvi. 13, Puvah, and Iob.
1. the sons of Issachar] Genesis xlvi. 13; Numbers xxvi. 23, 24. verses 2–5 are from an unknown source, or from the Chronicler himself.
Tola] the name of one of the minor Judges (Judges x. 1). He is there described as “Tola the son of Puah, dwelling [Hebrew josheb] in Shamir.” No descendants are mentioned from Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, but only from Tola; and it has been suggested that these four sons of Issachar are imaginary, being simply deduced from the statement in Judges—Jashub = josheb, and Shimron = Shamir. This is very ingenious but by no means convincing.
Puah] In Genesis and Numbers Puvah (Revised Version).
Jashub] So in Numbers, but in Genesis Iob.
²And 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 valour in their generations: their number in the days of David was two and twenty thousand and six hundred.
2. of their fathers’ houses] i.e. clans or families; see note on v. 13.
in their generations] Render, after (or according to) their generations, the rendering given to the same phrase in Genesis x. 32, xxv. 13.