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.
He dealt
Dispersed
Every fenced city
Many wives
Bible References
He dealt
2 Chronicles 10:8
But the king rejected the advice which the elders gave him, and consulted with the young men who grew up with him and served him [as advisers].
Luke 16:8 And his master commended the unjust manager [not for his misdeeds, but] because he had acted shrewdly [by preparing for his future unemployment]; for the sons of this age [the non-believers] are shrewder in relation to their own kind [that is, to the ways of the secular world] than are the sons of light [the believers].
Dispersed
2 Chronicles 21:3
Their father gave them many gifts of silver, gold, and valuable things, in addition to fortified cities in Judah; but he gave the kingdom to Jehoram because he was the firstborn.
Genesis 25:6
but to the sons of his concubines [Hagar and Keturah], Abraham gave gifts while he was still living and he sent them to the east country, away from Isaac his son [of promise].
1 Kings 1:5
Then Adonijah the son of [David’s wife] Haggith exalted himself, saying, “I [the eldest living son] will be king.” So [following Absalom’s example] he prepared for himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.
Every fenced city
2 Chronicles 11:11
He strengthened the fortresses and put officers in them, with supplies of food, [olive] oil, and wine.
Many wives
2 Chronicles 11:21
Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter (granddaughter) of Absalom more than all his wives and concubines—for he had taken eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and he fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.