Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.
Waxed
Fourteen wives
Begat
General references
Bible References
Waxed
2 Samuel 5:12
David realized that the Lord had established him as king over Israel and that he had elevated his kingdom for the sake of his people Israel.
Fourteen wives
2 Chronicles 11:21
Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than his other wives and concubines. He had eighteen wives and sixty concubines; he fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.
Begat
Judges 8:30
Gideon fathered seventy sons through his many wives.
Judges 9:5
He went to his father's home in Ophrah and murdered his half-brothers, the seventy legitimate sons of Jerub-Baal, on one stone. Only Jotham, Jerub-Baal's youngest son, escaped, because he hid.
Judges 10:4
He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys and possessed thirty cities. To this day these towns are called Havvoth Jair -- they are in the land of Gilead.
General references
2 Samuel 5:13
David married more concubines and wives from Jerusalem after he arrived from Hebron. Even more sons and daughters were born to David.