Commentaries:Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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1 Chronicles 7:5
fourscore and seven thousand—exclusive of the 58,600 men which the Tola branch had produced (I Chronicles 7:24), so that in the days of David the tribe would have contained a population of 45,600. This large increase was owing to the practice of polygamy, as well as the fruitfulness of the women. A plurality of wives, though tolerated among the Hebrews, was confined chiefly to the great and wealthy; but it seems to have been generally esteemed a privilege by the tribe of Issachar, "for they had many wives and sons" [I Chronicles 7:4].
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