Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore daughters.)
Eighteen wives
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Bible References
Eighteen wives
2 Chronicles 11:23
And he will understand, and he will spread from all his sons to all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, to all the cities of fortifications: and he will give to them food for multitude. And he will ask for a multitude of wives.
Deuteronomy 17:17
And he shall not multiply to him wives, and his heart shall not turn away: and silver and gold he shall not greatly multiply to himself.
Judges 8:30
And to Gideon were seventy sons going out of his thigh: for many women were to him.
2 Samuel 3:2
And sons will be born to David in Hebron: and his firstborn will be Amnon to Ahinoam the Jezreelitess.
2 Samuel 5:13
And David will take yet concubines and wives from Jerusalem after his coming from Hebron, and there will be yet born to David sons and daughters.
1 Kings 11:3
And there will be to him seven hundred chief wives, and three hundred concubines: and his wives will turn his heart
1 Chronicles 3:1
And these were the sons of David which were born to him in Hebron: the first-born Amnon to Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; the second, Daniel to Abigail the Carmelitess:
Song of Songs 6:8
They are sixty queens, and eighty concubines, and maidens no number.
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Deuteronomy 21:16
And it was in the day of his causing his sons to inherit what shall be to him, he shall, not be able to make the son of the loved first-born before the son of the hated, the first-born:
2 Samuel 5:13
And David will take yet concubines and wives from Jerusalem after his coming from Hebron, and there will be yet born to David sons and daughters.
Song of Songs 6:8
They are sixty queens, and eighty concubines, and maidens no number.