2 Chronicles 13:21

But Abijah became great, and had fourteen wives, and became the father of twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.

In Context

20And Jeroboam did not get back his power again in the life-time of Abijah; and the Lord sent death on him.

22And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways and his sayings, are recorded in the account of the prophet Iddo.

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Cross References

Judges 8:30Gideon had seventy sons, the offspring of his body; for he had a number of wives.

Judges 10:4And he had thirty sons, who went on thirty young asses; and they had thirty towns in the land of Gilead, which are named Havvoth-Jair to this day.

2 Chronicles 11:21Maacah, the daughter of Absalom, was dearer to Rehoboam than all his wives and his servant-wives: (for he had eighteen wives and sixty servant-wives, and was the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.)

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 13:14-22

Jeroboam Defeated by Abijah. ( b. c. 957.) 13 But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them. 14 And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind: and they cried unto the Lord , and the priests sounded with the trumpets. 15 Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of Judah shouted, it came to pass, that God smote Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah. 16 And the children of Israel fled before Judah:… Read the whole commentary →

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