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2 Chronicles 11:21

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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.)
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  1. 1 Kings 11:3Rank 1 from verse 21
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    3And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.

  2. Deuteronomy 17:17Rank 2 from verse 21
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    17Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

  3. Judges 8:30Rank 3 from verse 21
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    30And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives.

  4. 2 Samuel 3:2–5Rank 4 from verse 21
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    2¶ And unto David were sons born in Hebron: and his firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess;

    3And his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;

    4And the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital;

    5And the sixth, Ithream, by Eglah David’s wife. These were born to David in Hebron.

  5. 2 Samuel 5:13Rank 5 from verse 21
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    13¶ And David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron: and there were yet sons and daughters born to David.

  6. 2 Chronicles 11:23Rank 6 from verse 21
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    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.

  7. Song of Solomon 6:8–9Rank 7 from verse 21
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    8There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.

    9My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.

  8. 1 Chronicles 3:1–9Rank 8 from verse 21
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    1NOW these were the sons of David, which were born unto him in Hebron; the firstborn Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; the second Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelitess:

    2The third, Absalom the son of Maachah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur: the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith:

    3The fifth, Shephatiah of Abital: the sixth, Ithream by Eglah his wife.

    4These six were born unto him in Hebron; and there he reigned seven years and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years.

    5And these were born unto him in Jerusalem; Shimea, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, four, of Bath-shua the daughter of Ammiel:

    6Ibhar also, and Elishama, and Eliphelet,

    7And Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia,

    8And Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine.

    9These were all the sons of David, beside the sons of the concubines, and Tamar their sister.

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2 Chronicles 11:21

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loved

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of love, meaning to regard with affection or devotion.

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concubines

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Women held in a recognized secondary marital or household relation to a man, distinct from wives of primary rank.

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for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

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begat

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1. Fathered or brought forth as offspring; in a genealogy, identified a male progenitor in the stated line. 2. Brought forth, formed, or gave life in a spiritual or figurative relation.

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twenty

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The number equal to two tens, following nineteen and preceding twenty-one.

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11:18¶ And Rehoboam took him Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David to wife, and Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse;

11:19Which bare him children; Jeush, and Shamariah, and Zaham.

11:20And after her he took Maachah the daughter of Absalom; which bare him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.

11:21And 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.)

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11:22And Rehoboam made Abijah the son of Maachah the chief, to be ruler among his brethren: for he thought to make him king.

11:23And 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.

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