1 Chronicles 7:4

4 With them, by their generations, after their fathers' houses, were bands of the host for war, thirty-six 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 The sons of Tola: `Uzzi, and Refayah, and Yeri'el, and Yachmai, and Yivsam, and Shemu'el, heads of their fathers' houses, [to wit], of Tola; mighty men of valor in their generations: their number in the days of David was twenty-two thousand six hundred.

3 The sons of `Uzzi: Yizrachyah. The sons of Yizrachyah: Mikha'el, and `Ovadyah, and Yo'el, Yishshiyah, five; all of them chief men.

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

5 Their brothers among all the families of Yissakhar, mighty men of valor, reckoned in all by genealogy, were eighty-seven thousand.

6 [The sons of] Binyamin: Bela, and Bekher, and Yedi`a'el, three.