He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines,(A) and his wives led him astray.(B)

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28     while I was still searching
    but not finding—
I found one upright man among a thousand,
    but not one upright woman(A) among them all.

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13 After he left Hebron, David took more concubines and wives(A) in Jerusalem, and more sons and daughters were born to him. 14 These are the names of the children born to him there:(B) Shammua, Shobab, Nathan,(C) Solomon, 15 Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia, 16 Elishama, Eliada and Eliphelet.

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21 Rehoboam loved Maakah daughter of Absalom more than any of his other wives and concubines. In all, he had eighteen wives(A) and sixty concubines, twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

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Sons were born to David in Hebron:

His firstborn was Amnon(A) the son of Ahinoam(B) of Jezreel;

his second, Kileab the son of Abigail(C) the widow of Nabal of Carmel;

the third, Absalom(D) the son of Maakah daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;(E)

the fourth, Adonijah(F) the son of Haggith;

the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital;

and the sixth, Ithream the son of David’s wife Eglah.

These were born to David in Hebron.

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He went to his father’s home in Ophrah and on one stone murdered his seventy brothers,(A) the sons of Jerub-Baal. But Jotham,(B) the youngest son of Jerub-Baal, escaped by hiding.(C)

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30 He had seventy sons(A) of his own, for he had many wives. 31 His concubine,(B) who lived in Shechem, also bore him a son, whom he named Abimelek.(C)

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