1 Chronik 7:4

Lutherbibel

Und mit ihnen unter ihrem Geschlecht nach ihren Vaterhäusern waren gerüstetes Heervolk zum Streit sechsunddreißigtausend; denn sie hatten viel Weiber und Kinder.

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Und bei ihnen waren nach ihren Geschlechtern, nach ihren Stammhäusern, an Kriegstruppen 36,000 Mann; denn sie hatten viele Frauen und Söhne.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

1 Chronicles 12:32

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 7:2 - whose number

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.