Judges 8:30
Gideon had seventy sons who were his descendants, for he had many wives.
Unlocked Literal Bible
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 and lived in his own house.
31His concubine, who was in Shechem, also bore him a son, and Gideon gave him the name Abimelech.
Cross References
Genesis 2:24Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, he will be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
Genesis 46:26All those who went to Egypt with Jacob, who were his descendants, not counting Jacob's sons' wives, were sixty-six in all.
Deuteronomy 17:17He must not take many wives for himself, so that his heart does not turn away. He must not accumulate large amounts of silver and gold.
Judges 9:2“Please say this, so that all the leaders in Shechem may hear, 'Which is better for you, that all seventy sons of Jerub Baal rule over you, or that just one rule over you?' Remember that I am your bone and your flesh.”
Judges 10:4He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havvoth Jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.
Judges 12:14He had forty sons and thirty grandsons. They rode on seventy donkeys, and he judged Israel 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 →