Judges 8:30

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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 cleaves 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 Jacob's sons' wives, were sixty-six persons in all;

Genesis 7:7

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

1 Kings 11:3

He had seven hundred wives, 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

All the offspring of Jacob were seventy persons; Joseph was already in Egypt.

Malachi 2:15

Has not the one God made and sustained for us the spirit of life? And what does he desire? Godly offspring. So take heed to yourselves, and let none be faithless to the wife of his youth.

Deuteronomy 17:17

And he shall not multiply wives for himself, lest his heart turn away; nor shall he greatly multiply for himself silver and gold.

Judges 10:4

And he had thirty sons who rode on thirty asses; and they had thirty cities, called Havvoth-jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.

Judges 12:14

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

Judges 12:9

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

Judges 8:31

And his concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he called his name Abimelech.

Judges 9:1

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

Judges 9:18

and you have risen up against my father's house this day, and have slain his sons, seventy men on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the citizens of Shechem, because he is your kinsman—

Judges 9:2

“Say in the ears of all the citizens 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

And he went to his father's house at Ophrah, and slew his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy men, upon one stone; but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, for he hid himself.