2 Chronicles 13:21

But Abijah strengthened himself, and took fourteen wives, and begot twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.

Darby Translation

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 recover strength again in the days of Abijah; and Jehovah smote him, and he died.

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

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Cross References

Judges 8:30Now Gideon had seventy sons who had come out of his loins, for he had many wives.

Judges 10:4And he had thirty sons who rode on thirty ass colts; and they had thirty cities, which are called the villages of Jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.

2 Chronicles 11:21And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines; for he had taken eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and he begot 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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