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2 Chronicles 13:21

2 Chronicles 13:21 is verse 21 of 2 Chronicles chapter 13, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

But Abijah grew strong, married fourteen wives, and became the father of twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.

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King James Version

But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.

World English Bible

But Abijah grew mighty and took for himself fourteen wives, and became the father of twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.

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2 Chronicles 13:19–22 · Berean Standard Bible

19 Abijah pursued Jeroboam and captured some cities from him: Bethel, Jeshanah, and Ephron, along with their villages.

20 Jeroboam did not again recover his power during the days of Abijah, and the LORD struck him down and he died.

21 But Abijah grew strong, married fourteen wives, and became the father of twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.

22 Now the rest of the acts of Abijah, along with his ways and his words, are written in the Treatise of the Prophet Iddo.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

2 Samuel 5:12

And David realized that the LORD had established him as king over Israel and had exalted his kingdom for the sake of His people Israel.

2 Samuel 5:13

After he had arrived from Hebron, David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, and more sons and daughters were born to him.

2 Chronicles 11:21

Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than all his wives and concubines. In all, he had eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and he was the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

Judges 8:30

Gideon had seventy sons of his own, since he had many wives.

Judges 8:31

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

Judges 9:5

He went to his father’s house in Ophrah, and on one stone murdered his seventy brothers, the sons of Jerubbaal. But Jotham, the youngest son of Jerubbaal, survived, because he hid himself.

Judges 10:4

He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys. And they had thirty towns in the land of Gilead, which to this day are called Havvoth-jair.

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