John Gill's Bible Commentary Ver. 2. And the sons of Tola , etc.] The eldest son of Issachar, whose posterity are only reckoned by name: Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father’s house, to wit, of Tola ; the principal man of his family: [they] were valiant men of might in their generations , famous for their courage and military exploits, though they sprang from Tola, whose name signifies “a worm”; and which name Bochart conjectures was given him by his parents, because he was so weakly that they had no hopes of raising him; and yet from him sprung such mighty men, and from them such a numerous race, as follows: whose number was, in the days of David, two and twenty thousand and six hundred ; besides those of the posterity of Uzzi, after mentioned. This was at the time Joab took the number of Israel, by the order of David, ( Chronicles 21:5).
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 ובני1121 תולע8439 עזי5813 ורפיה7509 ויריאל3400 ויחמי3181 ויבשׂם3005 ושׁמואל8050 ראשׁים7218 לבית1004 אבותם1 לתולע8439 גבורי1368 חיל2428 לתלדותם8435 מספרם4557 בימי3117 דויד1732 עשׂרים6242 ושׁנים8147 אלף505 ושׁשׁ8337 מאות׃3967
