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1 Chronicles 7:4

Their family history shows they had 36,000 soldiers ready for war. They had a large family because they had many wives and children.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Torrey's Topical Textbook - Armies;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Issachar;   Joel;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Occupations and Professions in the Bible;   Zadok;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Marriage;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Issachar ;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Band;   Marriage;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Issachar, Tribe of;   Polygamy;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Along with them, they had 36,000 troops for battle according to the family records of their ancestral families, for they had many wives and children.
Hebrew Names Version
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.
King James Version
And with them, by their generations, after the house of their fathers, were bands of soldiers for war, six and thirty thousand men: for they had many wives and sons.
English Standard Version
And along with them, by their generations, according to their fathers' houses, were units of the army for war, 36,000, for they had many wives and sons.
New Century Version
Their family history shows they had thirty-six thousand men ready to serve in the army, because they had many wives and children.
New English Translation
According to the genealogical records of their families, they had 36,000 warriors available for battle, for they had numerous wives and sons.
Amplified Bible
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 children.
New American Standard Bible
And with them by their generations according to their fathers' households were thirty-six thousand troops of the army for war; for they had many wives and sons.
World English Bible
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.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And with them in their generations after the houshold of their fathers were bandes of men of warre for battel, sixe and thirtie thousand: for they had many wiues and children.
Legacy Standard Bible
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.
Berean Standard Bible
In addition to them, according to their genealogy, they had 36,000 troops for battle, for they had many wives and children.
Contemporary English Version
Their families were so large that they had 36,000 soldiers in their clans.
Complete Jewish Bible
With them, by their generations, in their fathers' clans, were army troops organized for war, 36,000 of them, because they had many women and children.
Darby Translation
And with them by their generations, according to their fathers' houses, were military bands for war, thirty-six thousand; for they had many wives and sons.
George Lamsa Translation
And with them by their generations, according to their fathers house, were valiant men of war, thirty-six thousand men; for they had many wives and sons.
Good News Translation
They had so many wives and children that their descendants were able to provide 36,000 men for military duty.
Lexham English Bible
And in addition to them, according to their generations, according to the house of their fathers, were troops of the army for war: thirty-six thousand. For they had many wives and sons.
Literal Translation
And with them, by their generations, according to their fathers' house, were bands of soldiers for war, thirty six thousand; for they multiplied wives and sons.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And with them amonge their kynred in the house of their fathers there were ready harnessed men of warre to the battayll, sixe and thirtie thousande: for they had many wiues and children.
American Standard Version
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.
Bible in Basic English
And with them, recorded in generations by their families, were bands of fighting-men, thirty-six thousand of them, for they had a great number of wives and sons.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And with them in their generations after the houshold of their fathers, were sixe and thirtie thousande souldiers and valiaunt men of warre: For they had many wyues and sonnes.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
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.
King James Version (1611)
And with them, by their generations, after the house of their fathers, were bands of souldiers for warre, sixe and thirtie thousand men: for they had many wiues and sonnes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And with them, according to their generations, according to the houses of their families, were men mighty to set armies in array for war, thirty and six thousand, for they had multiplied their wives and children.
English Revised Version
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.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And with hem weren bi her meynees and puplis, sixe and thretti thousynde strongeste men gird to batel; for thei hadden many wyues and sones.
Update Bible Version
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.
Webster's Bible Translation
And with them, by their generations, after the house of their fathers, [were] bands of soldiers for war, six and thirty thousand [men]: for they had many wives and sons.
New King James Version
And with them, by their generations, according to their fathers' houses, were thirty-six thousand troops ready for war; for they had many wives and sons.
New Living Translation
All of them had many wives and many sons, so the total number of men available for military service among their descendants was 36,000.
New Life Bible
With them by their families and by their fathers' houses were 36,000 men ready to fight. For they had many wives and sons.
New Revised Standard
and along with them, by their generations, according to their ancestral houses, were units of the fighting force, thirty-six thousand, for they had many wives and sons.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and, with them by their generations, pertaining to their ancestral house, were bands of a host for war, thirty-six thousand, - for they had many wives and sons;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And there were with them by their families and peoples, six and thirty thousand most valiant men ready for war: for they had many wives and children.
Revised Standard Version
and along with them, by their generations, according to their fathers' houses, were units of the army for war, thirty-six thousand, for they had many wives and sons.
Young's Literal Translation
And beside them, by their generations, of the house of their fathers, [are] troops of the host of battle, thirty and six thousand, for they multiplied wives and sons;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
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.

Contextual Overview

1 Issachar had four sons. Their names were Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron. 2 Tola's sons were Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Samuel. They were all leaders of their families. Those men and their descendants were strong soldiers. Their families grew. By the time David was king, there were 22,600 men ready for war. 3 Uzzi's son was Izrahiah. Izrahiah's sons were Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah. All five of them were leaders of their families. 4 Their family history shows they had 36,000 soldiers ready for war. They had a large family because they had many wives and children. 5 The family history shows there were 87,000 strong soldiers in all the tribes of Issachar. 6 Benjamin had three sons. Their names were Bela, Beker, and Jediael. 7 Bela had five sons. Their names were Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri. They were leaders of their families. Their family history shows they had 22,034 soldiers. 8 Beker's sons were Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. They all were Beker's children. 9 Their family history shows who the family leaders were. And it also shows they had 20,200 soldiers. 10 Jediael's son was Bilhan. Bilhan's sons were Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Kenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

1 Chronicles 12:32

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 7:2 - whose number

Cross-References

Genesis 2:5
This was before there were plants on the earth. Nothing was growing in the fields because the Lord God had not yet made it rain on the earth, and there was no one to care for the plants.
Genesis 6:7
So the Lord said, "I will destroy all the people I created on the earth. I will destroy every person and every animal and everything that crawls on the earth. And I will destroy all the birds in the air, because I am sorry that I have made them."
Genesis 6:13
So God said to Noah, "Everyone has filled the earth with anger and violence. So I will destroy all living things. I will remove them from the earth.
Genesis 6:17
"Understand what I am telling you. I will bring a great flood of water on the earth. I will destroy all living things that live under heaven. Everything on the earth will die.
Genesis 7:10
Seven days later the flood started. The rain began to fall on the earth.
Genesis 7:11
On the 17th day of the second month, when Noah was 600 years old, the springs under the earth broke through the ground, and water flowed out everywhere. The sky also opened like windows and rain poured down. The rain fell on the earth for 40 days and 40 nights. That same day Noah went into the boat with his wife, his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their wives.
Genesis 7:17
Water flooded the earth for 40 days. The water began rising and lifted the boat off the ground.
Genesis 7:21
Every living thing on earth died—every man and woman, every bird, and every kind of animal. All the many kinds of animals and all the things that crawl on the ground died. Every living, breathing thing on dry land died.
Genesis 7:23
In this way God wiped the earth clean—he destroyed every living thing on the earth—every human, every animal, everything that crawls, and every bird. All that was left was Noah and his family and the animals that were with him in the boat.
Genesis 8:10
After seven days Noah again sent out the dove.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.


 
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