1 Chronicles 7:4

4 And with them, by their generations, after their fathers' houses, were bands of the host for war, six and thirty thousand; for they had many wives and sons.

1 Chronicles 7:4 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 7:4

And with them, by their generations, after the house of their
fathers, were bands of soldiers for war
Companies of men of military courage and skill, who could and did go out to war upon occasion: six and thirty thousand [men];
besides the 22,600 Tolaites, ( 1 Chronicles 7:2 ) , for they had many wives and sons;
having many wives, they had many sons; polygamy was the cause of their large numbers; and that they gave into for the sake of the multiplication of Abraham's seed, according to the divine promise.

1 Chronicles 7:4 In-Context

2 And the sons of Tola: Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers' houses, [to wit], of Tola; mighty men of valor in their generations: their number in the days of David was two and twenty thousand and six hundred.

3 And the sons of Uzzi: Izrahiah. And the sons of Izrahiah: Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Isshiah, five; all of them chief men.

4 And with them, by their generations, after their fathers' houses, were bands of the host for war, six and thirty thousand; for they had many wives and sons.

5 And their brethren among all the families of Issachar, mighty men of valor, reckoned in all by genealogy, were fourscore and seven thousand.

6 [The sons of] Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.