Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
but Abijah continued to grow more powerful. He took fourteen wives for himself and fathered 22 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.
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.
Bible in Basic English
But Abijah became great, and had fourteen wives, and became the father of 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 Jeroboam never recovered his strength for the rest of Abijah's life. The LORD struck Jeroboam, and he died, 21 but Abijah continued to grow more powerful. He took fourteen wives for himself and fathered 22 sons and sixteen daughters. 22 The rest of Abijah's accomplishments, his lifestyle and his memoirs are recorded in the Midrash of the Prophet Iddo.
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Judges 8:30-31
Gideon raised 70 sons as his direct descendants, since he had many wives.
Judges 9:5
to his father's house in Ophrah. There he murdered his own brothers, Jerubbaal's sons all 70 of them in one place. But Jerubbaal's youngest son Jotham survived by hiding himself.
Judges 10:4
His 30 sons rode on 30 donkeys, controlling 30 cities in the territory of Gilead named Havvoth-jair to this day.
2 Samuel 5:12-13
So David concluded that the LORD had established him as king over Israel and that he had exalted his kingdom in order to benefit his people Israel.
2 Chronicles 11:21
Rehoboam loved Absalom's daughter Maacah more than he did all of his wives and mistresses. (He married eighteen wives and 60 concubines, fathering 28 sons and 60 daughters.)