Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peulthai the eighth: for God blessed him.
God blessed him - i:e., Obed-edom. The occasion of the blessing was his faithful custody of the ark (2 Samuel 6:11-12), and the nature of the blessing (Psalms 127:5) consisted in the great increase of progeny by which his house was distinguished: seventy-two descendants are reckoned.