Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 7:4

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.

4. by their generations ] i.e. according to descent. Each head commanded men that were his kinsfolk.

the house of their fathers ] R.V. their fathers’ houses.

of soldiers for war ] R.V. of the host for war.

Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

Six and thirty thousand men, to wit, of the posterity of Uzzi, as the other twenty-two thousand six hundred, 1Ch 7:2, were the posterity of Tola.

Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole

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, 1Ch 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.

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

1Ch 7:4 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.

Ver. 4. Were bands of soldiers for war. ] Though they affected peace, as 1Ch 7:2 , yet they were apti et parati ad bellum, ready pressed for war.

For they had many wives and sons. ] Polygamy passed for current in the Church, because Abraham used it; though directly against the institution, and that plain law, Lev 18:18 neither was it cast out of the Church till the captivity of Babylon.

Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)

1Ch 12:32

Reciprocal: 1Ch 7:2 – whose number

Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge