John Gill Commentary 1 Chronicles 26:4

"And Obed-edom had sons: Shemaiah the first-born, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, and Sacar the fourth, and Nethanel the fifth," — 1 Chronicles 26:4 (ASV)

Ver. 4,5. Moreover, the sons of Obededom The same at whose house the ark was, before it was brought by David to Zion; his sons were porters also, as himself, (1 Chronicles 15:24) (16:38), mention is made of eight sons of his, according to their birth:

Shemaiah, Jehozabad, Joah, Sacar, Nethaneel, Ammiel, Issachar, Peulthai; for God blessed him; as with wealth and riches, so with a numerous offspring, and that because of his entertainment of the ark at his house; the great increase of his family is aggravated by the Jews

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FOOTNOTES:

• F17: beyond all credit, that all in his family brought eight at a birth; the Targum here makes them eighty two in all.
  Hieron. Trad. Heb. in 2. Reg. fol. 77. M.