2 Chronicles 11:23

World English Bible (2000)

He dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his sons throughout all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, to every fortified city: and he gave them food in abundance. He sought [for them] many wives.

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  • Gen 25:6 : 6 but to the sons of Abraham's concubines, Abraham gave gifts. He sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, to the east country.
  • 1 Kgs 1:5-6 : 5 Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, "I will be king." Then he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him. 6 His father had not displeased him at any time in saying, "Why have you done so?" and he was also a very handsome man; and he was born after Absalom.
  • 2 Chr 10:8-9 : 8 But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him. 9 He said to them, "What counsel do you give, that we may return answer to this people, who have spoken to me, saying, 'Make the yoke that your father did put on us lighter?'" 10 The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, "Thus you shall tell the people who spoke to you, saying, 'Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter on us;' thus you shall say to them, 'My little finger is thicker than my father's waist. 11 Now whereas my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I [will chastise you] with scorpions.'" 12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king asked, saying, "Come to me again the third day." 13 The king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men, 14 and spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, "My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions." 15 So the king didn't listen to the people; for it was brought about of God, that Yahweh might establish his word, which he spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
  • 2 Chr 21:3 : 3 Their father gave them great gifts, of silver, and of gold, and of precious things, with fortified cities in Judah: but the kingdom gave he to Jehoram, because he was the firstborn.
  • Luke 16:8 : 8 "His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.

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  • 2 Chr 11:17-22
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    17So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong, three years; for they walked three years in the way of David and Solomon.

    18Rehoboam took him a wife, Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David, [and of] Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse;

    19and she bore him sons: Jeush, and Shemariah, and Zaham.

    20After her he took Maacah the daughter of Absalom; and she bore him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.

    21Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and sixty concubines, and became the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.)

    22Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah to be chief, [even] the prince among his brothers; for [he was minded] to make him king.

  • 2 Chr 13:21
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    21But Abijah grew mighty, and took to himself fourteen wives, and became the father of twenty-two sons, and sixteen daughters.

  • 1 Kgs 11:3-4
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    3He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.

    4For it happened, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as was the heart of David his father.

  • 2 Chr 11:5
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    5Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem, and built cities for defense in Judah.

  • 2 Chr 11:11-13
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    11He fortified the strongholds, and put captains in them, and stores of food, and oil and wine.

    12In every city [he put] shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong. Judah and Benjamin belonged to him.

    13The priests and the Levites who were in all Israel resorted to him out of all their border.

  • Judg 21:22-23
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    22It shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, 'Grant them graciously to us, because we didn't take for each man his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them, otherwise you would now be guilty.'"

    23The children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of those who danced, whom they carried off. They went and returned to their inheritance, built the cities, and lived in them.

  • 2 Chr 10:17
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    17But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.

  • 2 Chr 11:1
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    1When Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, one hundred eighty thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.

  • 1 Kgs 12:17
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    17But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.

  • 2 Sam 5:13
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    13David 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.

  • Ezra 10:44
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    44All these had taken foreign wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

  • 1 Chr 14:3
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    3David took more wives at Jerusalem; and David became the father of more sons and daughters.

  • 2 Chr 12:16
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    16Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his place.

  • Jer 29:6
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    6Take wives, and father sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply there, and don't be diminished.

  • 1 Kgs 12:21
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    21When Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.

  • 2 Chr 24:3
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  • Deut 17:17
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    17Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

  • 1 Kgs 12:23
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    23"Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people, saying,

  • 1 Kgs 11:1
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    1Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;

  • Judg 12:9
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    9He had thirty sons; and thirty daughters he sent abroad, and thirty daughters he brought in from abroad for his sons. He judged Israel seven years.

  • 2 Chr 11:3
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    3"Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,

  • Judg 8:30
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    30Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body; for he had many wives.

  • 2 Chr 32:29
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    29Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance; for God had given him very much substance.

  • Judg 21:14
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    14Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh Gilead: and yet so they weren't enough for them.

  • 2 Sam 20:3
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    3David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in custody, and provided them with sustenance, but didn't go in to them. So they were shut up to the day of their death, living in widowhood.

  • 1 Kgs 14:21
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    21Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

  • 1 Kgs 14:31
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    31Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess. Abijam his son reigned in his place.

  • 2 Chr 17:2
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    2He placed forces in all the fortified cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.

  • 1 Kgs 11:8
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    8So did he for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed to their gods.

  • 2 Sam 15:16
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  • Neh 13:26
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  • 1 Chr 7:4
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    4With them, by their generations, after their fathers' houses, were bands of the army for war, thirty-six thousand; for they had many wives and sons.

  • Judg 21:16
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  • 2 Chr 21:17
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    17and they came up against Judah, and broke into it, and carried away all the substance that was found in the king's house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was never a son left him, except Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.

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    1Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king.