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1 Chronicles 7:4

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.

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

1The sons of Issachar were: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron—four in all. 2The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Samuel, heads of their fathers' households. The sons of Tola were courageous men in their generations; their number in the days of David was 22,600. 3The son of Uzzi: Izrahiah. The sons of Izrahiah: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, Isshiah; all five of them were chief men. 4With 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.5Their relatives among all the families of Issachar, courageous men, registered by genealogies, were 87,000 in all. 6The sons of Benjamin were three: Bela, Becher, and Jediael. 7The sons of Bela were five: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri. They were heads of the households of their fathers, courageous men. By their genealogies they were 22,034. 8The sons of Becher: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth, all these were sons of Becher. 9They were registered by their genealogies according to their generations, as heads of their fathers' households, courageous men, 20,200 in number. 10The son of Jediael: Bilhan. The sons of Bilhan: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, 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
no shrub or plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprouted, for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground,
Genesis 6:3
Then the LORD said, "My Spirit shall not strive and remain with man forever, because he is indeed flesh [sinful, corrupt—given over to sensual appetites]; nevertheless his days shall yet be a hundred and twenty years."
Genesis 6:7
So the LORD said, "I will destroy (annihilate) mankind whom I have created from the surface of the earth—not only man, but the animals and the crawling things and the birds of the air—because it [deeply] grieves Me [to see mankind's sin] and I regret that I have made them."
Genesis 6:13
God said to Noah, "I intend to make an end of all that lives, for through men the land is filled with violence; and behold, I am about to destroy them together with the land.
Genesis 6:17
"For behold, I, even I, will bring a flood of waters on the earth, to destroy all life under the heavens in which there is the breath and spirit of life; everything that is on the land shall die.
Genesis 7:10
And after the seven days [God released the rain and] the floodwaters came on the earth.
Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, on that same day all the fountains of the great deep [subterranean waters] burst open, and the windows and floodgates of the heavens were opened.
Genesis 7:12
It rained on the earth for forty days and forty nights.
Genesis 7:17
The flood [the great downpour of rain] was forty days and nights on the earth; and the waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it floated [high] above the land.
Genesis 7:21
All living beings that moved on the earth perished—birds and cattle (domestic animals), [wild] animals, all things that swarm and crawl on the earth, and all mankind.

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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