2And 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.
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And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah. …
But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under: because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of the heavens. …
And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel. …
Now the children of Israel after their number, to wit, the chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that served the king in any matter of the courses, which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year, of every course were twenty and four thousand.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-19)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 , Deut. 33:18. And here it appears, 1. That they were a numerous tribe; for they had many wives. So fruitful their country was that they saw no danger of…
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