¹⁸ And Rehoboam took him a wife, Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David, ^[a]and of Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse; ¹⁹ and she bare him sons: Jeush, and Shemariah, and Zaham. ²⁰ And after her he took ^[b]Maacah the daughter of Absalom; and she bare him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith. ²¹ And Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines, and begat twenty and eight sons and threescore daughters). ²² And Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah to be chief, even the prince among his brethren; for he was minded to make him king. ²³ And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his sons throughout all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, unto every fortified city: and he gave them victuals in abundance. And he ^[c]sought for them many wives.