Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his children throughout all the countries of Judah and Benjamin, unto every fenced city: and he gave them victual in abundance. And he desired many wives.

Every fenced city

Many wives

Bible References

He dealt

2 Chronicles 10:8
But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men that grew up with him, who stood before him.
Luke 16:8
And his lord commended the unrighteous manager because he did shrewdly. Because the sons of this age are shrewder in their own generation than the sons of the light.

Dispersed

2 Chronicles 21:3
And their father gave them great gifts, of silver, and of gold, and of precious things, with fortified cities in Judah. But the kingdom he gave to Jehoram, because he was the first-born.
Genesis 25:6
But to the sons of the concubines, that Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts. And he sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, to the east country.
1 Kings 1:5
Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king. And he prepared chariots for him, and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.

Every fenced city

2 Chronicles 11:11
And he fortified the strongholds, and put captains in them, and stores of victuals, and oil and wine.

Many wives

2 Chronicles 11:21
And Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines. For he took eighteen wives, and thirty concubines, and begot twenty-eight sons and thirty daughters.