And 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 fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters).
And this day the princesses of Persia and Media who have heard the queen’s word shall say the same to all the king’s rulers and there shall be contempt and strife.
I also gathered to me silver and gold, and the treasure of kings and of provinces. I made ready men to sing and women to sing for myself; and the delights of the sons of men, a concubine, and concubines.
But My dove, My perfect one is one alone. She is the only one to her mother; she is pure to the one who bore her. The daughters saw her and called her blessed; the queens and the concubines saw her, and they praised her.
And he went into 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, was left; for he had hidden.