THEOSIS2 Chronicles 11:21Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And Roboam loved Maacha the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and concubines: for he had married eighteen wives, and threescore concubines: and he begot eight and twenty sons, and threescore daughters.
וַיֶּאֱהַ֨ב רְחַבְעָ֜ם אֶת־מַעֲכָ֣ה בַת־אַבְשָׁל֗וֹם מִכָּל־נָשָׁיו֙ וּפִ֣ילַגְשָׁ֔יו כִּ֠י נָשִׁ֤ים שְׁמוֹנֶֽה־עֶשְׂרֵה֙ נָשָׂ֔א וּפִֽילַגְשִׁ֖ים שִׁשִּׁ֑ים וַיּ֗וֹלֶד עֶשְׂרִ֧ים וּשְׁמוֹנָ֛ה בָּנִ֖ים וְשִׁשִּׁ֥ים בָּנֽוֹת׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Deut 17:17He shall not have many wives, that may allure his mind, nor immense sums of silver and gold.
- Judg 8:30And he had seventy sons, who came out of his thigh, for he had many wives.
- 2 Sam 5:13And David took more concubines and wives of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron: and there were born to David other sons also and daughters:
- 2 Sam 3:2And sons were born to David in Hebron: and his firstborn was Ammon of Achinoam the Jezrahelitess:
- 2 Sam 3:5And the sixth Jethraam of Egla the wife of David: these were born to David In Hebron.
- Song 6:8One is my dove, my perfect one is but one, she is the only one of her mother, the chosen of her that bore her. The daughters saw her, and declared her most blessed: the queens and concubines, and they praised her.
- Song 6:9Who is she that cometh forth as the morning rising, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, terrible as an army set in array?
- 2 Chr 11:23Because he was wiser and mightier than all his sons, and in all the countries of Juda, and of Benjamin, and in all the walled cities: and he gave them provisions in abundance, and he sought many wives.