And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron.
Parallel translations
- WEB The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron.
- BSB The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Job, and Shimron.
- NKJV The sons of Issachar were Tola, Puvah, Job, and Shimron.
- NASB And the sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvvah, Iob, and Shimron.
- NLT The sons of Issachar were Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron.
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Quick answer
The sons of Issachar are named: Tola, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron. The record continues the roll of Israel's tribal founders.
Overview
Issachar's four sons are listed among those who came to Egypt. These names found the families of the tribe of Issachar. The continuing genealogy testifies to God's preservation of every branch of the covenant family as the nation takes shape.
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- 1 Chr 12:32And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their commandment.
- Num 1:8Of Issachar; Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
- Num 26:23–25Of the sons of Issachar after their families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites: of Pua, the family of the Punites:
- Deut 33:18And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going out; and, Issachar, in thy tents.
- 1 Chr 2:1These are the sons of Israel; Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,
- 1 Chr 7:1–5Now the sons of Issachar were, Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimrom, four.
- Gen 30:14–18And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son’s mandrakes.
- Gen 35:23The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:
- Num 1:28–30Of the children of Issachar, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
- Gen 49:14–15Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:
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