'Wives' in the Bible
And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines; for he had taken eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and he begot twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.
And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his sons throughout all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, to all the fortified cities; and he gave them food in abundance. And he desired for them a multitude of wives.
But Abijah strengthened himself, and took fourteen wives, and begot twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.
And all Judah stood before Jehovah, with their little ones, their wives, and their sons.
behold, Jehovah will smite with a great stroke thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy substance,
and they came up into Judah, and broke into it, and carried away all the substance that was found in the king's house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was no son left him, except Jehoahaz the youngest of his sons.
And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begot sons and daughters.
And behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
and to all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, the whole congregation of those entered in the register; for in their trust they hallowed themselves to be holy.