71 Now the sons of Issachar were four : Tola , Puah , Jashub and Shimron . 2 The sons of Tola were Uzzi , Rephaiah , Jeriel , Jahmai , Ibsam and Samuel , heads of their fathers' households . The sons of Tola were mighty men of valor in their generations ; their number in the days of David was 22,600 e e e . 3 The son of Uzzi was Izrahiah . And the sons of Izrahiah were Michael , Obadiah , Joel , Isshiah ; all five of them were chief men . 4 With them by their generations according to their fathers' households were 36,000 e e troops of the army for war , for they had many wives and sons . 5 Their relatives among all the families of Issachar were mighty men of valor , enrolled by genealogy , in all 87,000 e e .
Matthew Henry's Commentary on 1 Chronicles 7:1-5
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Genealogies.
Here is no account either of Zebulun or Dan. We can assign no reason 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, and called it Dan, Revelation 7. Men become abominable when they forsake the worship of the true God, for any creature object.