Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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 retained no more strength in the days of Abijah: and Jehovah will smite him and he will die. 21 And Abijah will be strengthened, and he will take to him fourteen wives, and he will beget twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters. 22 And the rest of the words of Abijah, and his ways, and his words, being written in the commentary of the prophet Iddo.
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Cross References
Judges 8:30-31
And to Gideon were seventy sons going out of his thigh: for many women were to him.
Judges 9:5
And he will come to his father's house at Ophrah, and will kill his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy men upon one stone: and Jotham the young son of Jerubbaal will be left, for he was hid.
Judges 10:4
And to him will be thirty sons riding upon thirty young asses, and thirty cities to them; and they will call them the villages of Jair even to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.
2 Samuel 5:12-13
And David knew that Jehovah prepared him for king over Israel, and that he lifted up his kingdom for sake of his people Israel
2 Chronicles 11:21
And Rehoboam will love Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: for he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines; and he will beget twenty and eight sons, and sixty daughters.