2 Chronicles 11:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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).

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ And Rehoboam loved Maachah 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.)

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ And Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter [granddaughter] of Absalom more than all his wives and concubines–for he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and he had twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

American Standard Version (1901)

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).

Common English Bible

²¹ Rehoboam loved Absalom’s daughter Maacah more than all his wives and secondary wives. In all, he had eighteen wives and sixty secondary wives, twenty-eight sons, and sixty daughters.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ But Rehoboam loved Maacah, the daughter of Absalom, above all his wives and concubines. For he had taken eighteen wives and sixty concubines. And he conceived twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ And Roboam loved Maacha the daughter of Absalom, above all his wives and concubines. For he had married eighteen wives, and threescore concubines. And he begot eight and twenty sons, and threescore daughters.

2 Chronicles 11:21 Cross References

Genesis 22:24

Moreover, his concubine, whose name was Reumah, bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.

2 Samuel 5:13

In Jerusalem, after he came from Hebron, David took more concubines and wives, and more sons and daughters were born to David.

1 Kings 11:3

Among his wives were seven hundred princesses and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned away his heart.

1 Kings 15:2

He reigned for three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah daughter of Abishalom.

2 Chronicles 11:23

He dealt wisely and distributed some of his sons through all the districts of Judah and Benjamin, in all the fortified cities; he gave them abundant provisions and found many wives for them.

Deuteronomy 17:17

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.

Deuteronomy 21:16

then on the day when he wills his possessions to his sons, he is not permitted to treat the son of the loved as the firstborn in preference to the son of the disliked, who is the firstborn.

Judges 8:30

Now Gideon had seventy sons, his own offspring, for he had many wives.