The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers’ houses, of Tola; mighty men of valor in their generations. Their number in the days of David was twenty-two thousand six hundred.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 2. Chiefs. They were at the head of distinct families. Menochius.—David. We know that David took an account of his fighting men. 2 Kennicott. 24. But it is not certain that this register was made at that time; as we read that Benjamin was not numbered. Calmet. 21:6. These lists were probably made when some expedition was intended by David. The author was not, perhaps, able to recover the accounts of Nephthali, Manasses, and Ephraim, no more that the genealogies of Dan (verse 12) and Zabulon, which do not appear in this book. Calmet.