Judges 8:30
And Gideon had seventy sons begotten from his body, for he had many wives.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives.
In Context
29And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house.
31And his concubine who was in Shechem, she also bore him a son, and he called his name Abimelech.
Cross References
Genesis 2:24Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cling to his wife, and the two (LXX/NT) shall be one flesh.
Genesis 46:26All the souls who came with Jacob into Egypt, that came out of his loins, besides the wives of the sons of Jacob, all the souls were sixty-six.
Deuteronomy 17:17Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away. Neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
Judges 9:2Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem, Which is better for you, that all the sons of Jerubbaal, who are seventy men, rule over you, or that one rule over you? remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.
Judges 10:4And he had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkey colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havvoth-jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.
Judges 12:14And he had forty sons and thirty sons' sons who rode on seventy donkey colts, and he judged Israel eight years.
Matthew Henry on Judges 8:30-35
Israel's Return to Idolatry. ( b. c. 1249.) 29 And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house. 30 And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives. 31 And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech. 32 And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. 33 And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel… Read the whole commentary →