Verse 21

But Roboam loued Maecha the doughter of Absalom better then all his wyues & concubynes: for he had eightene wyues and thre score cocubynes, and begat eight & twentye sonnes, and thre score doughters.

Referenced Verses

• Deut 17:17 : 17 He shall not haue many wyues also, that his hert be not turned awaye. Nether shal he gather him syluer and golde to moch.
• 2 Sam 3:2-5 : 2 And vnto Dauid were children borne at Hebron. His firstborne sonne Ammon of Ahinoam the Iesraelitisse: 3 the seconde Chileab of Abigail the wyfe of Nabal of Carmel: the thirde Absalon the sonne of Maacha the doughter of Thalmai kynge of Gessur: 4 the fourth Adonia the sonne of Hagith: the fyfth Saphatia the sonne of Abital: 5 ye sixte Ierhream of Egla Dauids wife. These were borne vnto Dauid at Hebron.
• 2 Sam 5:13 : 13 And Dauid toke yet mo wyues and concubynes at Ierusalem, after he was come from Hebron, and there were yet mo sonnes & doughters borne vnto him.
• 1 Kgs 11:3 : 3 And he had seuen hundreth wemen to wyues, and thre hundreth concubynes, and his wyues turned his hert asyde.
• 1 Chr 3:1-9 : 1 These are the childre of Dauid, which were borne vnto him in Hebron. The first sonne, Amnon of Ahinoam the Iesraelitisse: the seconde, Daniel of Abigail the Carmelitisse: 2 the thirde, Absalom ye sonne of Maecha ye doughter of Thalmai kynge of Gesur: the fourth, Adonias the sonne of Hagith: 3 the fifth, Saphathia of Abital: the sixte, Iethream of his wife Egla. 4 These sixe were borne vnto him at Hebron, for he reigned there vij. yeare & sixe monethes. But at Ierusale reigned he thre & thirtie yeare. 5 And these were borne vnto him at Ierusalem: Simea, Sobab, Nathan, Salomo: these foure of Bethseba ye doughter of Ammiel. 6 And Iebear, Elisama, Eliphalet, 7 Noga, Nepheg, Iapia, 8 Elisama, Eliada, Eliphelet, these nyne. 9 These all are ye children of Dauid, besyde those yt were the childre of ye cocubynes. And Thamar was their sister.
• 2 Chr 11:23 : 23 for he was wyse, & more mightie then all his sonnes in all the countrees of Iuda & Ben Iamin, and in all the stronge cities. And he gaue them plenteousnes of fode, and desyred many wyues.
• Song 6:8-9 : 8 There are thre score quenes, foure score concubynes, and yonge weme without nombre. 9 But one is my doue, my derlynge. She is the onely beloued of hir mother, & deare vnto her that bare her. Wha the daughters sawe her, they sayde she was blessed: Yee the quenes and concubines praysed her.
• Judg 8:30 : 30 And Gedeon Had thre score & ten sonnes, which were come out of his thye: for he had many wyues.