Judges 12:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

He 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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Judg 10:4 : 4 And he had thirty sons, who went on thirty young asses; and they had thirty towns in the land of Gilead, which are named Havvoth-Jair to this day.
  • Judg 12:14 : 14 He had forty sons and thirty sons' sons who went on seventy young asses; and he was judge of Israel for eight years.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 84%

    13 And after him, Abdon, the son of Hillel, the Pirathonite, was judge of Israel.

    14 He had forty sons and thirty sons' sons who went on seventy young asses; and he was judge of Israel for eight years.

  • Judg 12:7-8
    2 verses
    78%

    7 Now Jephthah was judge of Israel for six years. And Jephthah the Gileadite came to his death, and his body was put to rest in his town, Mizpeh of Gilead.

    8 And after him, Ibzan of Beth-lehem was judge of Israel.

  • Judg 10:2-4
    3 verses
    73%

    2 He was judge over Israel for twenty-three years; and at his death his body was put to rest in the earth in Shamir.

    3 And after him came Jair the Gileadite, who was judge over Israel for twenty-two years.

    4 And he had thirty sons, who went on thirty young asses; and they had thirty towns in the land of Gilead, which are named Havvoth-Jair to this day.

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

  • 31 Then his brothers and his father's people came down and took him up and put his body to rest in the earth between Zorah and Eshtaol in the resting-place of Manoah his father. And he had been judge of Israel for twenty years.

  • 71%

    10 And Ibzan came to his death and his body was put to rest at Beth-lehem.

    11 And after him, Elon the Zebulonite was judge of Israel; and he was judge of Israel for ten years.

  • 13 And he had seven sons and three daughters.

  • 2 And he had seven sons and three daughters.

  • 20 And he was judge of Israel in the days of the Philistines for twenty years.

  • 32 And Heber was the father of Japhlet and Shomer and Hotham and Shua, their sister.

  • 10 And the sons of Jediael: Bilhan; and the sons of Bilhan: Jeush and Benjamin and Ehud and Chenaanah and Zethan and Tarshish and Ahishahar.

  • 1 Sam 8:1-2
    2 verses
    68%

    1 Now when Samuel was old, he made his sons judges over Israel.

    2 The name of his first son was Joel and the name of his second Abijah: they were judges in Beer-sheba.

  • 4 He had six sons in Hebron; he was ruling there for seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem for thirty-three years.

  • 67%

    16 From year to year he went in turn to Beth-el and Gilgal and Mizpah, judging Israel in all those places.

    17 And his base was at Ramah, where his house was; there he was judge of Israel and there he made an altar to the Lord.

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

  • 6 The sons of Benjamin: Bela and Becher and Jediael, three.

  • 8 And he had them numbered in Bezek: the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.

  • 4 And 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.

  • 9 ... the son of Deker in Makaz and Shaalbim and Beth-shemesh and Elonbeth-hanan;

  • 36 And Abdon his oldest son, and Zur and Kish and Baal and Ner and Nadab

  • 23 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.

  • 30 And his oldest son Abdon, and Zur and Kish and Baal and Ner and Nadab

  • 5 Then he went to his father's house at Ophrah, and put his brothers, the seventy sons of Jerubbaal, to death on the same stone; however, Jotham, the youngest, kept himself safe by going away to a secret place.

  • 27 And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his brothers had only a small number of children, and their family was not as fertile as the children of Judah.

  • 11 And he took thirty friends, and they were with him.

  • 15 (And Gilead took a wife, whose name was Maacah, and his sister's name was Hammoleketh;) and the name of his brother was Zelophehad, who was the father of daughters.

  • 7 What are we to do about wives for those who are still living? For we have taken an oath by the Lord that we will not give them our daughters for wives.

  • 9 And made him king over Gilead and the Asherites and over Jezreel and Ephraim and Benjamin, that is, over all Israel.

  • 30 The sons of Asher: Imnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah and Serah, their sister.

  • 23 The king of Dor on the hill of Dor, one; the king of Goiim in Gilgal, one;

  • 24 And his daughter was Sheerah, the builder of Beth-horon the lower and the higher, and Uzzen-sheerah.

  • 18 And you have gone against my father's family this day, and have put to death his sons, even seventy men on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his servant-wife, king over the townsmen of Shechem because he is your brother;)

  • 19 And the spirit of the Lord came rushing on him, and he went down to Ashkelon and, attacking thirty men there, took their clothing from them, and gave it to the men who had given the answer to his hard question. Then, full of wrath, he went back to his father's house.

  • 12 Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Beth-lehem-judah named Jesse, who had eight sons; and he was an old man in Saul's day, and far on in years.

  • 21 And after that, Hezron had connection with the daughter of Machir, the father of Gilead, whom he took as his wife when he was sixty years old; and she had Segub by him.

  • 14 And with him they sent ten chiefs, one for every tribe of the children of Israel, every one of them the head of his house among the families of Israel.