Judges 8:30
Now Gideon had seventy sons who had come out of his loins, for he had many wives.
Darby Translation
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 house.
Cross References
Genesis 2:24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and cleave to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.
Genesis 46:26All the souls that came with Jacob to Egypt, that had come out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives: 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 citizens of Shechem, Which is better for you, that seventy persons, all sons of Jerubbaal, rule over you, or that one man rule over you? And remember that I am your bone and your flesh.
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.
Judges 12:14And he had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy ass 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 →