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.
      II. Of the tribe of Benjamin. Some account is here given of this tribe, but much larger in the next chapter. The militia of this tribe scarcely reached to 60,000; but they are said to be mighty men of valour,1 Chronicles 7:7; 1 Chronicles 7:9; 1 Chronicles 7:11. Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf,Genesis 49:27. It was the honour of this tribe that it produced Saul the first king, and more its honour that it adhered to the rightful kings of the house of David when the other tribes revolted. Here is mention (1 Chronicles 7:12; 1 Chronicles 7:12) of Hushim the sons of Aher. The sons of Dan are said to be Hushim (Genesis 46:23), and therefore some read Aher appellatively, Hushim--the sons of another (that is, another of Jacob's sons) or the sons of a stranger, which Israelites should not be, but such the Danites were when they set up Micah's graven and molten image among them.