John Gill's Bible Commentary Ver. 5. And their brethren among all the families of Issachar , etc.] As those of Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, ( 1 Chronicles 7:1) were men of might ; valiant and courageous: reckoned in all, by their genealogies, fourscore and seven thousand ; that is, including with these those of Tola and Uzzi before given.
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 ואחיהם251 לכל3605 משׁפחות4940 ישׂשכר3485 גבורי1368 חילים2428 שׁמונים8084 ושׁבעה7651 אלף505 התיחשׂם3187 לכל׃3605
