2 Chronicles 11:21

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

General references

Deuteronomy 21:16

2 Samuel 5:13

Song of Songs 6:8

Bible References

Eighteen wives

He dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his sons throughout all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, to every fortified city: and he gave them food in abundance. He sought [for them] many wives.

Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body; for he had many wives.

To David were sons born in Hebron: and his firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess;

David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron; and there were yet sons and daughters born to David.

He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.

Now these were the sons of David, who were born to him in Hebron: the firstborn, Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; the second, Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelitess;

There are sixty queens, eighty concubines, and virgins without number.

General references

then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not make the son of the beloved the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the firstborn:

David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron; and there were yet sons and daughters born to David.

There are sixty queens, eighty concubines, and virgins without number.