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Bible in Basic English
But Abijah became great, and had fourteen wives, and became the father of twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.
New American Standard Bible
But Abijah became powerful; and took fourteen wives to himself, and became the father of twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.
King James Version
But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.
Holman Bible
However, Abijah grew strong, acquired 14 wives, and fathered 22 sons and 16 daughters.
International Standard Version
but Abijah continued to grow more powerful. He took fourteen wives for himself and fathered 22 sons and sixteen daughters.
A Conservative Version
But Abijah grew mighty, and took to himself fourteen wives, and begot twenty-two sons, and sixteen daughters.
American Standard Version
But Abijah waxed mighty, and took unto himself fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.
Amplified
But Abijah became powerful. He took fourteen wives for himself and fathered twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.
Darby Translation
But Abijah strengthened himself, and took fourteen wives, and begot twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.
Julia Smith Translation
And Abijah will be strengthened, and he will take to him fourteen wives, and he will beget twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.
King James 2000
But Abijah grew mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begot twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.
Lexham Expanded Bible
But Abijah became strong, and he took to himself fourteen wives and fathered twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.
Modern King James verseion
And Abijah became mighty, and married fourteen wives, and fathered twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And Abijah waxed mighty, and took him fourteen wives, and begat twenty two sons and sixteen daughters.
NET Bible
Abijah's power grew; he had fourteen wives and fathered twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.
New Heart English Bible
But Abijah grew mighty, and took to himself fourteen wives, and became the father of twenty-two sons, and sixteen daughters.
The Emphasized Bible
And Abijah strengthened himself, and took him, fourteen wives, - and begat twenty-two sons, and sixteen daughters.
Webster
But Abijah became mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.
World English Bible
But Abijah grew mighty, and took to himself fourteen wives, and became the father of twenty-two sons, and sixteen daughters.
Youngs Literal Translation
And Abijah strengtheneth himself, and taketh to him fourteen wives, and begetteth twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters,
Interlinear
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Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in 2 Chronicles 13:21
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Abijah And Civil War
20 And Jeroboam did not get back his power again in the life-time of Abijah; and the Lord sent death on him. 21 But Abijah became great, and had fourteen wives, and became the father of twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters. 22 And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways and his sayings, are recorded in the account of the prophet Iddo.
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Judges 8:30-31
Gideon had seventy sons, the offspring of his body; for he had a number of wives.
Judges 9:5
Then he went to his father's house at Ophrah, and put his brothers, the seventy sons of Jerubbaal, to death on the same stone; however, Jotham, the youngest, kept himself safe by going away to a secret place.
Judges 10:4
And he had thirty sons, who went on thirty young asses; and they had thirty towns in the land of Gilead, which are named Havvoth-Jair to this day.
2 Samuel 5:12-13
And David saw that the Lord had made his position safe as king over Israel, and that he had made his kingdom great because of his people Israel.
2 Chronicles 11:21
Maacah, the daughter of Absalom, was dearer to Rehoboam than all his wives and his servant-wives: (for he had eighteen wives and sixty servant-wives, and was the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.)