Judges 8:30
And he had seventy sons, who went forth from his own thigh. For he had many wives.
Catholic Public Domain 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 so Jerubbaal, the son of Joash, went and lived in his own house.
31But his concubine, whom he had in Shechem, bore him a son named Abimelech.
Cross References
Genesis 2:24For this reason, a man shall leave behind his father and mother, and he shall cling to his wife; and the two shall be as one flesh.
Genesis 46:26All the souls who went into Egypt with Jacob and who went out from his thigh, besides the wives of his sons, were sixty-six.
Deuteronomy 17:17He shall not have many wives, who might allure his mind, and he shall not have immense weights of silver and gold.
Judges 9:2“Speak to all the men of Shechem: Which is better for you: that seventy men, all the sons of Jerubbaal, should rule over you, or that one man should rule over you? And consider also that I am your bone and your flesh.”
Judges 10:4having thirty sons sitting upon thirty young donkeys, and who were leaders of thirty cities, which from his name were called Havvoth Jair, that is, the towns of Jair, even to the present day, in the land of Gilead.
Judges 12:14And he had forty sons, and from them thirty grandsons, all riding upon seventy young donkeys. And he judged Israel for 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 →