2 Chronicles 11:23

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And in his wisdom he had his sons stationed in every walled town through all the lands of Judah and Benjamin; and he gave them a great store of food, and took wives for them.

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  • Gen 25:6 : 6 But to the sons of his other women he gave offerings, and sent them away, while he was still living, into the east country.
  • 1 Kgs 1:5-6 : 5 Then Adonijah, the son of Haggith, lifting himself up in pride, said, I will become king; and he made ready his carriages of war and his horsemen, with fifty runners to go before him. 6 Now all his life his father had never gone against him or said to him, Why have you done so? and he was a very good-looking man, and younger than Absalom.
  • 2 Chr 10:8-9 : 8 But he gave no attention to the opinion of the old men, but went to the young men of his generation who were waiting before him. 9 And he said to them, What is your opinion? What answer are we to give to this people who have said to me, Make less the weight of the yoke which your father put on us? 10 And the young men of his generation said to him, This is the answer to give to the people who came to you saying, Your father put a hard yoke on us, but will you make it less; say to them, My little finger is thicker than my father's body; 11 If my father put a hard yoke on you, I will make it harder: my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give you blows with snakes. 12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had given orders, saying, Come to me again on the third day. 13 And the king gave them a rough answer. So King Rehoboam gave no attention to the suggestion of the old men, 14 But gave them the answer put forward by the young men, saying, My father made your yoke hard, but I will make it harder; my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give it with snakes. 15 So the king did not give ear to the people; for this came about by the purpose of God, so that the Lord might give effect to his word which he had said by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam, the son of Nebat.
  • 2 Chr 21:3 : 3 And their father gave them much silver and gold and things of great value, as well as walled towns in Judah; but the kingdom he gave to Jehoram, because he was the oldest.
  • Luke 16:8 : 8 And his lord was pleased with the false servant, because he had been wise; for the sons of this world are wiser in relation to their generation than the sons of light.

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  • 2 Chr 11:17-22
    6 verses
    76%

    17So they went on increasing the power of the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, strong for three years; and for three years they went in the ways of David and Solomon.

    18And Rehoboam took as his wife Mahalath, the daughter of Jerimoth, the son of David and of Abihail, the daughter of Eliab, the son of Jesse;

    19And she had sons by him, Jeush, Shemariah, and Zaham.

    20And after her he took Maacah, the daughter of Absalom; and she had Abijah and Attai and Ziza and Shelomith by him.

    21Maacah, the daughter of Absalom, was dearer to Rehoboam than all his wives and his servant-wives: (for he had eighteen wives and sixty servant-wives, and was the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.)

    22Rehoboam made Abijah, the son of Maacah, chief and ruler among his brothers, for it was his purpose to make him king.

  • 2 Chr 13:21
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    21But Abijah became great, and had fourteen wives, and became the father of twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.

  • 1 Kgs 11:3-4
    2 verses
    71%

    3He had seven hundred wives, daughters of kings, and three hundred other wives; and through his wives his heart was turned away.

    4For it came about that when Solomon was old, his heart was turned away to other gods by his wives; and his heart was no longer true to the Lord his God as the heart of his father David had been.

  • 2 Chr 11:5
    71%

    5Now Rehoboam kept in Jerusalem, building walled towns in Judah.

  • 2 Chr 11:11-13
    3 verses
    70%

    11And he made the walled towns strong, and he put captains in them and stores of food, oil, and wine.

    12And in every town he put stores of body-covers and spears, and made them very strong. And Judah and Benjamin were his.

    13And the priests and Levites who were in all Israel came together to him from every part of their country.

  • Judg 21:22-23
    2 verses
    69%

    22And when their fathers or their brothers come and make trouble, you are to say to them, Give them to us as an act of grace; for we did not take them as wives for ourselves in war; and if you yourselves had given them to us you would have been responsible for the broken oath.

    23So the men of Benjamin did this, and got wives for themselves for every one of their number, taking them away by force from the dance; then they went back to their heritage, building up their towns and living in them.

  • 2 Chr 10:17
    69%

    17But Rehoboam was still king over those of the children of Israel who were living in the towns of Judah.

  • 2 Chr 11:1
    68%

    1And Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, and got together the men of Judah and Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand of his best fighting-men, to make war against Israel and get the kingdom back for Rehoboam.

  • 1 Kgs 12:17
    68%

    17(But Rehoboam was still king over those of the children of Israel who were living in the towns of Judah.)

  • 2 Sam 5:13
    68%

    13And David took more women and wives in Jerusalem, after he had come from Hebron: and he had more sons and daughters.

  • Ezra 10:44
    68%

    44All these had taken strange wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had offspring.

  • 1 Chr 14:3
    67%

    3And while he was living in Jerusalem, David took more wives and became the father of more sons and daughters.

  • 2 Chr 12:16
    67%

    16And Rehoboam went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in the town of David; and Abijah his son became king in his place.

  • Jer 29:6
    67%

    6Take wives and have sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may have sons and daughters; and be increased in number there and do not become less.

  • 1 Kgs 12:21
    67%

    21When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he got together all the men of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand of his best fighting-men, to make war against Israel and get the kingdom back for Rehoboam, the son of Solomon.

  • 2 Chr 24:3
    67%

    3And Jehoiada took two wives for him, and he became the father of sons and daughters.

  • Deut 17:17
    67%

    17And he is not to have a great number of wives, for fear that his heart may be turned away; or great wealth of silver and gold.

  • 1 Kgs 12:23
    67%

    23Say to Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the men of Judah and Benjamin and the rest of the people:

  • 1 Kgs 11:1
    67%

    1Now a number of strange women were loved by Solomon, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites:

  • Judg 12:9
    67%

    9He had thirty sons, and thirty daughters whom he sent to other places, and he got thirty wives from other places for his sons. And he was judge of Israel for seven years.

  • 2 Chr 11:3
    67%

    3Say to Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin,

  • Judg 8:30
    66%

    30Gideon had seventy sons, the offspring of his body; for he had a number of wives.

  • 2 Chr 32:29
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    29And he made towns for himself, and got together much property in flocks and herds: for God had given him great wealth.

  • Judg 21:14
    66%

    14Then Benjamin came back; and they gave them the women whom they had kept from death among the women of Jabesh-gilead: but still there were not enough for them.

  • 2 Sam 20:3
    66%

    3And David came to his house at Jerusalem: and the king took the ten women to whom he had given the care of the house, and had them shut up, and gave them the necessaries of life, but did not go near them. So they were shut up till the day of their death, living as widows.

  • 1 Kgs 14:21
    66%

    21And Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, was king in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he was king for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the town which the Lord had made his out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there; his mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonite woman.

  • 1 Kgs 14:31
    65%

    31And Rehoboam went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth with his fathers in the town of David; his mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonite woman. And Abijam his son became king in his place.

  • 2 Chr 17:2
    65%

    2He put forces in all the walled towns of Judah, and responsible chiefs in the land of Judah and in the towns of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.

  • 1 Kgs 11:8
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    8And so he did for all his strange wives, who made offerings with burning of perfumes to their gods.

  • 2 Sam 15:16
    65%

    16So the king went out, taking with him all the people of his house, but for ten of his women, who were to take care of the house.

  • Neh 13:26
    65%

    26Was it not in these things that Solomon, king of Israel, did wrong? among a number of nations there was no king like him, and he was dear to his God, and God made him king over all Israel: but even he was made to do evil by strange women.

  • 1 Chr 7:4
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    4And with them, recorded in generations by their families, were bands of fighting-men, thirty-six thousand of them, for they had a great number of wives and sons.

  • Judg 21:16
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    16Then the responsible men of the meeting said, What are we to do about wives for the rest of them, seeing that the women of Benjamin are dead?

  • 2 Chr 21:17
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    17And they came up against Judah, forcing a way into it, and took away all the goods in the king's house, as well as his sons and his wives; so that he had no son but only Jehoahaz, the youngest.

  • 2 Chr 12:12-13
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    65%

    12And when he made himself low, the wrath of the Lord was turned back from him, and complete destruction did not come on him, for there was still some good in Judah.

    13So King Rehoboam made himself strong in Jerusalem and was ruling there. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he was ruling for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the town which the Lord had made his out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there; and his mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonite woman.

  • Deut 21:15
    64%

    15If a man has two wives, one greatly loved and the other hated, and the two of them have had children by him; and if the first son is the child of the hated wife:

  • 1 Kgs 12:1
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    1And Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had come together to make him king,