Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.
Seven hundred
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Bible References
Seven hundred
Judges 8:30
Gideon fathered seventy sons through his many wives.
Judges 9:5
He went to his father's home in Ophrah and murdered his half-brothers, the seventy legitimate sons of Jerub-Baal, on one stone. Only Jotham, Jerub-Baal's youngest son, escaped, because he hid.
2 Samuel 3:2
Now sons were born to David in Hebron. His firstborn was Amnon, born to Ahinoam the Jezreelite.
2 Samuel 5:13
David married more concubines and wives from Jerusalem after he arrived from Hebron. Even more sons and daughters were born to David.
2 Chronicles 11:21
Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than his other wives and concubines. He had eighteen wives and sixty concubines; he fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.
Ecclesiastes 7:28
What I have continually sought, I have not found; I have found only one upright man among a thousand, but I have not found one upright woman among all of them.
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Exodus 34:16
and you then take his daughters for your sons, and when his daughters prostitute themselves to their gods, they will make your sons prostitute themselves to their gods as well.
Judges 3:6
They took the Canaanites' daughters as wives and gave their daughters to the Canaanites; they worshiped their gods as well.