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.
And he came to his father's house in Ephra, and slew his brethren the sons of Jerobaal, seventy men, upon one stone. And there remained only Joatham the youngest son of Jerobaal, who was hidden.
One is my dove, my perfect one is but one, she is the only one of her mother, the chosen of her that bore her. The daughters saw her, and declared her most blessed: the queens and concubines, and they praised her.
I heaped together for myself silver and gold, and the wealth of kings, and provinces: I made me singing men, and singing women, and the delights of the sons of men, cups and vessels to serve to pour out wine: