Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.

Fourteen wives

General references

Bible References

Waxed

2 Samuel 5:12
And David perceived that Jehovah had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom because of his people Israel.

Fourteen wives

2 Chronicles 11:21
And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines; for he had taken eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and he begot twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

Begat

Judges 8:30
Now Gideon had seventy sons, his own offspring, for he had many wives.
Judges 9:5
And he went to his father's house at Ophrah, and slew his brothers the sons of Jerubba'al, seventy men, upon one stone; but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubba'al was left, for he hid himself.
Judges 10:4
And he had thirty sons who rode on thirty asses; and they had thirty cities, called Hav'voth-ja'ir to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.

General references

2 Samuel 5:13
And David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he had come from Hebron; and there were yet sons and daughters born to David.