And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.

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28 Which my soul still seeks but I cannot find:
(A)One man among a thousand I have found,
But a woman among all these I have not found.

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13 And (A)David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, after he had come from Hebron. Also more sons and daughters were born to David. 14 Now (B)these are the names of those who were born to him in Jerusalem: [a]Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, (C)Solomon, 15 Ibhar, [b]Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia, 16 Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 5:14 Shimea, 1 Chr. 3:5
  2. 2 Samuel 5:15 Elishama, 1 Chr. 3:6

21 Now Rehoboam loved Maachah the granddaughter of Absalom more than all his (A)wives and his concubines; for he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and begot twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

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Sons of David

Sons were born (A)to David in Hebron: His firstborn was Amnon (B)by Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; his second, [a]Chileab, by Abigail the widow of Nabal the Carmelite; the third, (C)Absalom the son of Maacah, the daughter of Talmai, king (D)of Geshur; the fourth, (E)Adonijah the son of Haggith; the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital; and the sixth, Ithream, by David’s wife Eglah. These were born to David in Hebron.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 3:3 Daniel, 1 Chr. 3:1

Then he went to his father’s house (A)at Ophrah and (B)killed his brothers, the seventy sons of Jerubbaal, on one stone. But Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, because he hid himself.

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30 Gideon had (A)seventy sons who were his own offspring, for he had many wives. 31 (B)And his concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, whose name he called Abimelech.

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