Rechav`am loved Ma`akhah the daughter of Avshalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and sixty concubines, and became the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.)
1 Kings 11:3 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition He had 700 wives, princesses, and 300 concubines, and his wives turned away his heart from God. American Standard Version (1901) And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart. Common English Bible He had seven hundred royal wives and three hundred secondary wives. They turned his heart. Catholic Public Domain Version And for him, there were seven hundred wives, as if they were queens, and three hundred concubines. And the women turned aside his heart. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And he had seven hundred wives as queens, and three hundred concubines. And the women turned away his heart. |
Rechav`am loved Ma`akhah the daughter of Avshalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and sixty concubines, and became the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.)
Today, the princesses of Paras and Madai who have heard of the queen's deed will tell all the king's princes. This will cause much contempt and wrath.
I also gathered silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men--musical instruments, and that of all sorts.
which my soul still seeks; but I have not found: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
There are sixty queens, eighty concubines, and virgins without number.
My dove, my perfect one, is unique. She is her mother's only daughter. She is the favorite one of her who bore her. The daughters saw her, and called her blessed; the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.
Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.
He went to his father's house at Ofrat, and killed his brothers the sons of Yerubba`al, being seventy persons, on one stone: but Yotam the youngest son of Yerubba`al was left; for he hid himself.