Judges 8:30
Gideon had seventy sons, all his own, because he had many wives.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives.
In Context
29Jerub-baal, son of Joash, went home to live in his own house.
31His concubine, who lived in Shechem, also had a son. He named him Abimelech.
Cross References
Genesis 2:24This is the reason a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two become one being.
Genesis 46:26All those who were part of Jacob's family who came to Egypt (his blood relatives, apart from wives of Jacob's sons) totaled sixty-six.
Deuteronomy 17:17He must not have many wives, so they don't lead him away from following the Lord. He must not have large quantities of silver and gold.
Judges 9:2“Please ask all the leaders of Shechem, ‘What's best for you? That seventy men, all of them Jerub-baal's sons, rule over you—or just one man?’ Remember I'm your own flesh and blood!”
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.
Judges 12:14He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode seventy donkeys. He led Israel as judge 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 →