1 Chronicles 7:4

4 cumque eis per familias et populos suos accincti ad proelium viri fortissimi triginta sex milia multas enim habuere uxores et filios

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 filii Thola Ozi et Raphaia et Ierihel et Iemai et Iebsem et Samuhel principes per domos cognationum suarum de stirpe Thola viri fortissimi numerati sunt in diebus David viginti duo milia sescenti

3 filii Ozi Iezraia de quo nati sunt Michahel et Obadia et Iohel et Iesia quinque omnes principes

4 cumque eis per familias et populos suos accincti ad proelium viri fortissimi triginta sex milia multas enim habuere uxores et filios

5 fratresque eorum per omnem cognationem Isachar robustissimi ad pugnandum octoginta septem milia numerati sunt

6 Beniamin Bale et Bochor et Iadihel tres