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2 Chronicles 11:21 KJV
2 Chronicles · chapter 11 · verse 21
And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore daughters.)2 Chronicles 11:21 · King James Version
2 Chronicles 11:21 in context
19Which bare him children; Jeush, and Shamariah, and Zaham.
20And after her he took Maachah the daughter of Absalom; which bare him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.
21And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore daughters.)
22And Rehoboam made Abijah the son of Maachah the chief, to be ruler among his brethren: for he thought to make him king.
23And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his children throughout all the countries of Judah and Benjamin, unto every fenced city: and he gave them victual in abundance. And he desired many wives.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- concubinespîylegesha concubineH6370 →
- RehoboamRᵉchabʻâmRechabam, an Israelite kingH7346 →
- daughterbatha daughterH1323 →
- eighteenshᵉmôneha cardinal number, eightH8083 →
- eighteenʻâsârtenH6240 →
- MaachahMaʻăkâhMaakah , the name of a place in Syria, also of a Mesopotamian, of three Israelites, and…H4601 →
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See here, I. How Rehoboam was strengthened by the accession of the priests and Levites, and all the devout and pious Israelites, to him, even all that were true to their God and their religion. 1.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 13-23