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
David realized that Yahweh had established him as king over Israel and that he had exalted his kingdom because of his people Israel.

Fourteen wives

2 Chronicles 11:21
And Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom more than all his wives and concubines (for he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and he fathered 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 he killed his brothers, the sons of Jerub-Baal, seventy men, on one stone. But Jotham the youngest son of Jerub-Baal survived, because he hid himself.
Judges 10:4
And he had thirty sons who would ride on thirty donkeys, and they had thirty towns that [are] in the land of Gilead that they called Havvoth Jair until 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.