And their brothers among all the families of Issachar were great men of might, being in all, by their genealogies, eighty-seven thousand.

From the sons of Hebron: Eliel the chief and eighty of his brothers.

So the number of them, with their brothers who were instructed in the songs of Jehovah, all that were skillful, was two hundred and eighty-eight.

And Abishai the brother of Joab was chief of the three. For lifting up his spear against three hundred, he killed them, and had a name among the three.

either three years of famine, or three months to be swept away before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtake you, or else three days of the sword of Jehovah, even the plague in the land, and the angel of Jehovah destroying throughout all the border of Israel. And now say what word I shall bring again to Him who sent me.

Of the three, he was more honorable than the two for he was their captain. However, he did not attain the first three.