Judges 8:30

Modern English Version

Gideon had seventy sons, for he had many wives.

Cross References

Genesis 2:24

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother and be joined to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

Genesis 46:26

All those who came with Jacob to Egypt, who were direct descendants, besides the wives of Jacob’s sons, were sixty-six in all.

Genesis 7:7

And Noah went with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives into the ark, because of the floodwaters.

1 Kings 11:3

He had seven hundred wives who were princesses and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart away.

2 Kings 10:1

Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria to the captains of Jezreel, to the elders, and to the guardians of the sons of Ahab, saying,

Exodus 1:5

All the people who came from the seed of Jacob were seventy people, but Joseph was in Egypt already.

Malachi 2:15

Did He not make them one, having a remnant of the Spirit? And why one? He seeks godly offspring. So take heed to your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously.

Deuteronomy 17:17

He shall not acquire many wives for himself, lest his heart turn away; nor shall he acquire for himself excess silver and gold.

Judges 10:4

He had thirty sons who rode thirty donkeys and owned thirty cities that are in the land of Gilead. They are called Havvoth Jair to this day.

Judges 12:14

He had forty sons and thirty grandsons who rode seventy donkeys. He judged Israel for eight years.

Judges 12:9

He had thirty sons, and he gave thirty daughters in marriage outside his clan; and he brought thirty daughters from outside for his sons. He judged Israel for seven years.

Judges 8:31

His concubine who lived in Shechem also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.

Judges 9:1

Abimelech son of Jerub-Baal went to Shechem, to his mother’s brothers. He spoke to them and to the house of his mother’s father saying,

Judges 9:18

Yet you have taken a stand against my father’s family today. You killed his seventy sons, each on a single stone. You made Abimelech, son of his slave woman, king over the leaders of Shechem because he is your brother.

Judges 9:2

“Please say in the hearing of all of the leaders of Shechem, ‘Which is better for you, to have all seventy sons of Jerub-Baal rule over you, or for one man to rule over you? Remember that I am your own flesh and bone.’ ”

Judges 9:5

He went to his father’s house at Ophrah and killed his brothers, the seventy sons of Jerub-Baal, on a single stone. Yet Jotham, the youngest son of Jerub-Baal, survived because he hid himself.