1 Chronicles 7:4

4 With them by their generations according to their fathers' households were 36,000 * * troops of the army for war, 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 were Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam and Samuel, heads of their fathers' households. The sons of Tola were mighty men of valor in their generations; their number in the days of David was 22,600 .

3 The son of Uzzi was Izrahiah. And the sons of Izrahiah were Michael, Obadiah, Joel, Isshiah; all five of them were chief men.

4 With them by their generations according to their fathers' households were 36,000 troops of the army for war, for they had many wives and sons.

5 Their relatives among all the families of Issachar were mighty men of valor, enrolled by genealogy, in all 87,000 .

6 The sons of Benjamin were three: Bela and Becher and Jediael.

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "bands"