1 Chronicles 7:4

They had many wives and sons and so in their genealogy they list 36,000 battle-ready fighting men.

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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.

In Context

3The son of Uzzi: Izrahiah. The sons of Izrahiah: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah. All five were family heads.

5The relatives who were warriors belonging to all the families of Issachar, according to their genealogy, were 87,000 in total.

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Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 7:2-20

Genealogies. ( b. c. 1689.) 1 Now the sons of Issachar were, Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four. 2 And the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father's house, to wit, of Tola: they were valiant men of might in their generations; whose number was in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred. 3 And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five: all of them chief men. 4 And with… Read the whole commentary →

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