2 Chronicles 13:21

But Abijah grew stronger and stronger. He married fourteen wives and had twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

20Jereboam never regained his power during Abijah's reign. Eventually the Lord struck him down and he died.

22The rest of what Abijah did—what he said and what he accomplished—is recorded in the history written by Iddo the Prophet.

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Cross References

Judges 8:30Gideon had seventy sons, all his own, because he had many wives.

Judges 10:4He had thirty sons who rode thirty donkeys. They had thirty towns in the land of Gilead, which to this day are called the Towns of Jair.

2 Chronicles 11:21Rehoboam loved Maacah Absalom's daughter more than all his other wives and concubines. He had a total of eighteen wives and sixty concubines, 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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