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 which the old men gave him and took counsel with the young men that were brought up with him, that stood before him.
Luke 16:8
And the lord commended the unjust steward because he had done discreetly; for the sons of this age are in their generation more prudent than the sons of light.

Dispersed

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

Every fenced city

2 Chronicles 11:11
And he fortified the strong holds, and put captains in them and provisions and wine and oil;

Many wives

2 Chronicles 11:21
But Rehoboam loved Maachah, the daughter of Absalom, above all his wives and his concubines (for he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines and begat twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.)