2 Chronicles 13:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²¹ But Abijah strengthened himself. He took fourteen wives and became the father of twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ But Abijah became mighty. He married fourteen wives and had twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ But Abijah waxed mighty, and took unto himself fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.

Common English Bible

²¹ Abijah, however, grew strong. He married fourteen wives; he had twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ And so Abijah, having been strengthened in his authority, took fourteen wives. And he procreated twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.

2 Chronicles 13:21 Cross References

2 Chronicles 11:21

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).

Judges 10:4

He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys, and they had thirty towns, which are in the land of Gilead and are called Havvoth-jair to this day.

Judges 9:5

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.

1 Kings 15:7

The rest of the acts of Abijam and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Judah? There was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.

2 Chronicles 13:20

Jeroboam did not recover his power in the days of Abijah; the Lord struck him down, and he died.

2 Chronicles 13:22

The rest of the acts of Abijah, his behavior and his deeds, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo.