Chronicles I 7:4

4 And with them, according to their generations, according to the houses of their families, mighty to set in array for war, thirty and six thousand, for they had multiplied wives and children.

Chronicles I 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.

Chronicles I 7:4 In-Context

2 And the sons of Thola; Ozi, Raphaia, and Jeriel, and Jamai, and Jemasan, and Samuel, chiefs of their fathers' houses Thola, men of might according to their generations; their number in the days of David twenty and two thousand and six hundred.

3 And the sons of Ozi; Jezraia: and the sons of Jezraia; Michael, Abdiu, and Joel, and Jesia, five, all rulers.

4 And with them, according to their generations, according to the houses of their families, mighty to set in array for war, thirty and six thousand, for they had multiplied wives and children.

5 And their brethren among all the families of Issachar, also mighty men, eighty-seven thousand— the number of them all.

6 The sons of Benjamin; Bale, and Bachir, and Jediel, three.