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 knew that the Lord had established him as king over Israel, and that He had exalted his kingdom for His people Israel’s sake.

Fourteen 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.

Begat

Judges 8:30
Now Gideon had seventy sons born to him, because he had many wives.
Judges 9:5
Then he went to his father’s house at Ophrah and murdered his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy men, [in a public execution] on one stone. But Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left alive, because he had hidden himself.
Judges 10:4
He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys, and they had thirty towns in the land of Gilead that are called Havvoth-jair (towns of Jair) to this day.

General references

2 Samuel 5:13
David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, after he came from Hebron; and more sons and daughters were born to him.