Judges 8:30

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Genesis 2:24

Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh.

Genesis 46:26

All the persons belonging to Jacob who came into Egypt who were his own offspring, not including the wives of his sons, were sixty-six persons in all.

Genesis 7:7

And Noah with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives went into the ark to escape the waters of the flood.

1 Kings 11:3

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

2 Kings 10:1

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

Exodus 1:5

The total number of people born to Jacob was seventy. (Joseph was already in Egypt.)

Malachi 2:15

Did God not make them one, flesh with spirit in it? And what does the one desire? Godly offspring. So look to yourselves, and do not let anyone be faithless to the wife of his youth.

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.

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 12:14

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

Judges 12:9

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

Judges 8:31

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

Judges 9:1

Now Abimelech son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother’s kinsfolk and said to them and to the whole clan of his mother’s family,

Judges 9:18

but you have risen up against my father’s house this day and have killed his sons, seventy men on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his slave woman, king over the lords of Shechem, because he is your kinsman—

Judges 9:2

“Say in the hearing of all the lords of Shechem, ‘Which is better for you, that all seventy of the sons of Jerubbaal rule over you or that one rule over you?’ Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.”

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.