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2 Chronicles 13:21
21But Abijah strengthened himself, and took fourteen wives, and begot twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.
2 Chronicles 13:21 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.
- New International Version (NIV)But Abijah grew in strength. He married fourteen wives and had twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.
- English Standard Version (ESV)But Abijah grew mighty. And he took fourteen wives and had twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.
- New King James Version (NKJV)But Abijah grew mighty, married fourteen wives, and begot twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.
Context of 2 Chronicles 13:21
19And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him: Bethel with its dependent villages, and Jeshanah with its dependent villages, and Ephron with its dependent villages. 20And Jeroboam did not recover strength again in the days of Abijah; and Jehovah smote him, and he died. But Abijah strengthened himself, and took fourteen wives, and begot twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters. 22And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways and his sayings, are written in the treatise of the prophet Iddo.
Read all of 2 Chronicles 132 Chronicles 13:21 word by word
וַיִּתְחַזֵּ֣ק אֲבִיָּ֔הוּ וַיִּ֨שָּׂא־ל֔וֹ נָשִׁ֖ים אַרְבַּ֣ע עֶשְׂרֵ֑ה וַיּ֗וֹלֶד עֶשְׂרִ֤ים וּשְׁנַ֙יִם֙ בָּנִ֔ים וְשֵׁ֥שׁ עֶשְׂרֵ֖ה בָּנֽוֹת׃ סRead the interlinear
Cross-references for 2 Chronicles 13:21
- 2 Samuel 5:12And David perceived that Jehovah had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom because of his people Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 11:21And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines; for he had taken eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and he begot twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.
- Judges 8:30Now Gideon had seventy sons who had come out of his loins, for he had many wives.
- Judges 9:5And he came to his father's house, to Ophrah, and slew his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy persons upon one stone; but there remained Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal; for he had hid himself.
- Judges 10:4And he had thirty sons who rode on thirty ass colts; and they had thirty cities, which are called the villages of Jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.
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- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
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