1 Kings 11:3
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3 Among his wives were seven hundred princesses and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned away his heart.
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Ecclesiastes 7:28
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28 which my mind has sought repeatedly, but I have not found. One man among a thousand I found, but a woman among all these I have not found.
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2 Samuel 5:13-16
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13 In Jerusalem, after he came from Hebron, David took more concubines and wives, and more sons and daughters were born to David.(A) 14 These are the names of those who were born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,(B) 15 Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia, 16 Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet.
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2 Chronicles 11:21
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21 Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than all his other wives and concubines (he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines and became the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters).(A)
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2 Samuel 3:2-5
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2 Sons were born to David at Hebron: his firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam of Jezreel;(A) 3 his second was Chileab, of Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel; the third was Absalom son of Maacah, daughter of King Talmai of Geshur;(B) 4 the fourth was Adonijah son of Haggith; the fifth was Shephatiah son of Abital;(C) 5 and the sixth was Ithream, of David’s wife Eglah. These were born to David in Hebron.
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Judges 9:5
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5 He went to his father’s house at Ophrah and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy men, on one stone, but Jotham, the youngest son of Jerubbaal, survived, for he hid himself.(A)
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Judges 8:30-31
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30 Now Gideon had seventy sons, his own offspring, for he had many wives.(A) 31 His concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.(B)
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