'Wives' in the Bible
Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom more than all his other wives and concubines. For he had taken eighteen wives and sixty concubines and fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.
He acted wisely and distributed some of his sons through all the territories of Judah and Benjamin to all the fortified cities, and he gave them food in abundance. And he sought many wives for them.
But Abijah became powerful; and took fourteen wives to himself, and became the father of twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.
All Judah was standing before the Lord, with their infants, their wives and their children.
behold, the Lord is going to strike your people, your sons, your wives and all your possessions with a great calamity;
and they came against Judah and invaded it, and carried away all the possessions found in the king’s house together with his sons and his wives, so that no son was left to him except Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.
Jehoiada took two wives for him, and he became the father of sons and daughters.
For behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
The genealogical enrollment included all their little children, their wives, their sons and their daughters, for the whole assembly, for they consecrated themselves faithfully in holiness.