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Tola
A scarlet worm. (1.) Eldest son of Issachar (Gen 46:13).
(2.) A judge of the tribe of Issachar who “judged” Israel twenty-three years (Judg 10:1, Judg 10:2), when he died, and was buried in Shamir. He was succeeded by Jair.
Named in the Bible
5 verses
- Genesis 46:13 And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron.
- Numbers 26:23 Of the sons of Issachar after their families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites: of Pua, the family of the Punites:
- Judges 10:1 And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim.
- 1 Chronicles 7:1 Now the sons of Issachar were, Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.
- 1 Chronicles 7:2 And 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.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
