Judges 8:30
And he had seventy sons, who came out of his thigh, for he had many wives.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives.
In Context
29So Jerobaal the son of Joas went, and dwelt in his own house.
31And his concubine, that he had in Sichem, bore him a son, whose name was Abimelech.
Cross References
Genesis 2:24Wherefore a man shall leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be two in one flesh.
Genesis 46:26All the souls that went with Jacob into Egypt, and that came out of his thigh, besides his sons' wives, sixty-six.
Deuteronomy 17:17He shall not have many wives, that may allure his mind, nor immense sums of silver and gold.
Judges 9:2Speak to all the men of Sichem: whether is better for you that seventy men all the sons of Jerobaal should rule over you, or that one man should rule over you? And withal consider that I am your bone, and your flesh.
Judges 10:4Having thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and were princes of thirty cities, which from his name were called Havoth Jair, that is, the towns of Jair, until this present day in the land of Galaad.
Judges 12:14And he had forty sons, and of them thirty grandsons, mounted upon 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 →