John Gill's Bible Commentary Ver. 1. Now the sons of Issachar were Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four .] The same number is given, ( Genesis 46:13) with a small variation of two of their names, there called Phuvah and Job, from whence so many families sprang, mentioned ( Numbers 26:23,24), where the names are the same as here.
Matthew Henry Commentary
- Genealogies.
--Here is no account either of Zebulun or Dan. We can assign no reaso why they only should be omitted; but it is the disgrace of the tribe of Dan, that idolatry began in that colony which fixed in Laish, an called it Dan, Jud 18 and there one of the golden calves was set up by Jeroboam. Dan is omitted, Re 7. Men become abominable when they forsak the worship of the true God, for any creature object _________________________________________________
Original Hebrew ולבני1121 ישׂשכר3485 תולע8439 ופואה6312 ישׁיב3437 ושׁמרון8110 ארבעה׃702
