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).
1 Kings 11:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Among his wives were seven hundred princesses and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned away his heart. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition He had 700 wives, princesses, and 300 concubines, and his wives turned away his heart from God. American Standard Version (1901) And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart. Common English Bible He had seven hundred royal wives and three hundred secondary wives. They turned his heart. Catholic Public Domain Version And for him, there were seven hundred wives, as if they were queens, and three hundred concubines. And the women turned aside his heart. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And he had seven hundred wives as queens, and three hundred concubines. And the women turned away his heart. |
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).
This very day the noble ladies of Persia and Media who have heard of the queen’s behavior will rebel against the king’s officials, and there will be no end of contempt and wrath!
I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and of the provinces; I got singers, both men and women, and delights of the flesh, many concubines.
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.
There are sixty queens and eighty concubines and maidens without number.
My dove, my perfect one, is the only one, the darling of her mother, flawless to her who bore her. The maidens saw her and called her happy; the queens and concubines praised her.
And he must not acquire many wives for himself or else his heart will turn away; also silver and gold he must not acquire in great quantity for himself.
and they took their daughters as wives for themselves, and their own daughters they gave to their sons, and they served their gods.
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.