And along with them, by their generations, according to their fathers’ houses, were units of the army for war, 36,000, for they had many wives and sons.
We have here a short view given us, I. Of the tribe of Issachar, whom Jacob had compared to a strong ass, couching between two burdens (Gen 49:14), an industrious tribe, that minded their country business very closely and rejoiced in their tents, Deu 33:18. And here it appears, 1. That they were a numerous tribe; for they had many wives.
Commenting on 1 Chronicles 7:1-19
And their brethren among all the families of Issachar,.... As those of Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, Ch1 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.
1Ch 7:1-5 Sons and families of Issachar. - 1Ch 7:1. Instead of ולבני, we must certainly read בּני, as in 1Ch 7:14, 1Ch 7:30, or וּבני, as in 1Ch 7:20; 1Ch 5:11, and elsewhere. The לבני has come into the text only by the recollection of the copyist having dwelt on the so frequently recurring לבני in 1Ch 6:42, 1Ch 6:46-47, cf.
Commenting on 1 Chronicles 7:1-5