1 Chronicles 7:4

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 1 Chronicles 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.