²¹ But Abijah grew mighty. And he took fourteen wives and had twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.

²¹ Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and concubines (he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters).

¹² And David knew that the Lord had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for the sake of his people Israel.

¹³ And David took more ^(A)concubines and wives from Jerusalem, after he came from Hebron, and more sons and daughters were born to David.

⁴ And he had thirty sons who ^(A)rode on thirty donkeys, and they had thirty cities, called Havvoth-jair to this day, ^(B)which are in the land of Gilead.

⁵ And he went to his father's house at ^(A)Ophrah ^(B)and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy men, on one stone. But Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, for he hid himself.

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