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2 Chronicles 11:23 KJV
2 Chronicles · chapter 11 · verse 23
And 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.2 Chronicles 11:23 · King James Version
2 Chronicles 11:23 in context
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)
- dispersedpâratsto break outH6555 →
- countriesʼeretsthe earthH776 →
- childrenbêna son , in the widest sense , etc.)H1121 →
- BenjaminBinyâmîynBinjamin, youngest son of JacobH1144 →
- victualmâzôwnfoodH4202 →
- wiselybîynto separate mentallyH995 →
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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