2 Chronicles 13:21

Modern

But Abijah grew strong, married fourteen wives, and became the father of twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.

Traditional

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

Literal

And Abijah strengthened himself, and he took to himself fourteen wives, and he begat twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.

Latin

Igitur Abia, confortato imperio suo, accepit uxores quatuordecim: procreavitque viginti duos filios, et sedecim filias.

Hebrew

English

But Abijah grew strong, married fourteen wives, and became the father of twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.

Theme notes and profiles

Judges 9:5
He went to his father’s house in Ophrah, and on one stone murdered his seventy brothers, the sons of Jerubbaal. But Jotham, the youngest son of Jerubbaal, survived, because he hid himself.
2 Chronicles 11:21
Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than all his wives and concubines. In all, he had eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and he was the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.
2 Samuel 5:12–13
And David realized that the LORD had established him as king over Israel and had exalted his kingdom for the sake of His people Israel.
Judges 8:30–31
Gideon had seventy sons of his own, since he had many wives.
Judges 10:4
He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys. And they had thirty towns in the land of Gilead, which to this day are called Havvoth-jair.

Abijah: King of Judah, son of Rehoboam