Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 7:2
And the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father’s house, [to wit], of Tola: [they were] valiant men of might in their generations; whose number [was] in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred.
2. of their fathers’ house ] R.V. of their fathers’ houses. Cp. 1Ch 7:4; 1Ch 7:9; 1Ch 7:40. Fathers’ houses is an awkward term for “clans, patriarchal families” (Greek ).
valiant men of might ] R.V. mighty men of valour.
in their generations ] Render, after (or according to) their generations, the rendering given to the same Heb. phrase in Gen 10:32; Gen 25:13.
their number ] The divisions of Issachar which claimed Tola as an ancestor amounted to 22,600 fighting men.
in the days of David ] 1Ch 21:1 ff. (= 2Sa 24:1 ff.).
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Whose number was in the days of David … – The writer would seem by this passage to have had access to the statistics of the tribes collected by David, when he sinfully numbered the people (marginal reference). The numbers given in 1Ch 7:4-5 probably came from the same source.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 2. Whose number was in the days of David] Whether this was the number returned by Joab and his assistants, when they made that census of the people with which God was so much displeased, we know not. It is worthy of remark that we read here the sum of three tribes, Benjamin, Issachar, and Asher, under the reign of David, which is mentioned nowhere else; and yet we have no account here of the other tribes, probably because the author found no public registers in which such enumeration was recorded.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
In the days of David, when he numbered the people, 2Sa 24:1, &c.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
2. whose number was in the days ofDavid two and twenty thousand and six hundredAlthough a censuswas taken in the reign of David by order of that monarch, it is notcertain that the sacred historian had it in mind, since we find herethe tribe of Benjamin enumerated [1Ch7:6-12], which was not taken in David’s time; and there are otherpoints of dissimilarity.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And the sons of Tola,…. 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 k 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, 1Ch 21:5.
k Hierozoic. par. 2. l. 4. c. 21. col. 630.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(2) Num. 26:38
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
1Ch 7:2 And the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father’s house, [to wit], of Tola: [they were] valiant men of might in their generations; whose number [was] in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred.
Ver. 2. They were valiant men of might. ] And yet this tribe, for the generality, were asinus osseus Gen 49:14 dull, and desirous of peace.
In the days of David.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
the sons of Tola. Descendants of younger sons are contrasted with his firstborn Uzzi (verses: 1Ch 7:3-4). These names occur nowhere else, and prove Chronicles to be entirely independent.
in the days of David. When he numbered the people (2Sa 24).
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
whose number: This was probably the number returned by Joab and his assistants, when they made that census of the people with which God was so much displeased. We find that the effective men of Issachar amounted to 87,000 – 1Ch 7:5, 1Ch 7:22, 600 of whom descended from Tola his eldest son; but whether the 36,000 – 1Ch 7:4 were descendants of Tola by Uzzi, and the 22,600 his descendants by Tola’s other sons; or whether another of Issachar’s sons be intended, does not clearly appear; though the former seems the more obvious meaning. 1Ch 21:1-5, 1Ch 27:1, 1Ch 27:23, 1Ch 27:24, 2Sa 24:1-9
Reciprocal: Exo 6:14 – the heads
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
1Ch 7:2. Whose number in the days of David, &c. That is, when David numbered the people, (2 Samuel 24.,) the descendants of Tola, Issachars firstborn, were found to be thus many; which was a very great increase.
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
7:2 And the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father’s house, [to wit], of Tola: [they were] valiant men of might in their generations; {b} whose number [was] in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred.
(b) That is, their number was found to be this big when David counted the people, 2Sa 24:1.