Judges 8:30
And, Gideon, had seventy sons, sprung from his own loins,—for, many wives, had he.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives.
In Context
29So then Jerubbaal, son of Joash, went and dwelt in his own house.
Cross References
Genesis 2:24For this cause, will a man leave his father and his mother, and cleave unto his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
Genesis 46:26All the souls that came in with Jacob to Egypt that had come forth of his loins, besides Jacob’s sons’ wives,—all the souls, were sixty-six;
Deuteronomy 17:17Neither shall he multiply to himself wives, that his heart turn not aside,—nor silver and gold, shall he multiply to himself greatly.
Judges 9:2Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the owners of Shechem—Which is better for you, that there should rule over you, seventy men, all sons of Jerubbaal, or that there should rule over you, one man? And remember that, your bone and your flesh, am I.
Judges 10:4Now he had thirty sons, that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had, thirty cities,—they are called Havvoth-jair, until this day, which are in the land of Gilead.
Judges 12:14And so it was, 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 →