1 Chronicles 7:1

EXPOSITION

The great tribes of Judah and Levi being now passed, as well as the minor ones of Simeon, Reuben, and Gad, we reach the sons of Issachar . Issachar was Jacob's fifth son by Leah ( Genesis 35:23 ). In the list of Genesis 46:13 our Puah ( פוּאָח ) appears differently spelt as Phuvah ( פֻוָּח ), and Jashub is found as Job, which is corrected by the Samaritan Codex to Jashub, and this reading the Septuagint follows. In the other parallel passage ( Numbers 26:23 ) the Phuvah form obtains, but the other names are the same as here. Tola . We read ( 10:1 , 10:2 ) of another person of this name, who judged Israel twenty-three years, at Shamir, in Mount Ephraim, and who is called "the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar." This is a good instance of how the use of the same names, though in different order, clung to a tribe or family through long periods.