Judges 8:30

World English Bible (2000)

Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body; for he had many wives.

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  • Judg 9:2 : 2 "Please speak in the ears of all the men of Shechem, 'Is it better for you that all the sons of Jerubbaal, who are seventy persons, rule over you, or that one rule over you?' Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh."
  • Judg 9:5 : 5 He went to his father's house at Ophrah, and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, being seventy persons, on one stone: but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.
  • Judg 10:4 : 4 He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkey colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havvoth Jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.
  • Judg 12:9 : 9 He 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.
  • Judg 12:14 : 14 He had forty sons and thirty sons' sons, who rode on seventy donkey colts: and he judged Israel eight years.
  • 2 Sam 3:2-5 : 2 To David were sons born in Hebron: and his firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; 3 and his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur; 4 and the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital; 5 and the sixth, Ithream, of Eglah, David's wife. These were born to David in Hebron.
  • 2 Sam 5:13-16 : 13 David 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. 14 These are the names of those who were born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, 15 and Ibhar, and Elishua, and Nepheg, and Japhia, 16 and Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet.
  • 1 Kgs 11:3 : 3 He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.
  • 2 Kgs 10:1 : 1 Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, even the elders, and to those who brought up [the sons of] Ahab, saying,
  • Mal 2:15 : 15 Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
  • Matt 19:5-8 : 5 and said, 'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?' 6 So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don't let man tear apart." 7 They asked him, "Why then did Moses command us to give her a bill of divorce, and divorce her?" 8 He said to them, "Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.
  • Eph 5:31-33 : 31 "For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh." 32 This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly. 33 Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
  • Gen 2:24 : 24 Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
  • Gen 7:7 : 7 Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, because of the waters of the flood.
  • Gen 46:26 : 26 All the souls who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his direct descendants, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were sixty-six.
  • Exod 1:5 : 5 All the souls who came out of Jacob's body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already.
  • Deut 17:17 : 17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

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  • Judg 8:31-33
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    76%

    31 His concubine who was in Shechem, she also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.

    32 Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

    33 It happened, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and played the prostitute after the Baals, and made Baal Berith their god.

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

  • Judg 12:9
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    9 He 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.

  • Judg 8:29
    71%

    29 Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and lived in his own house.

  • Judg 9:4-5
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    4 They gave him seventy [pieces] of silver out of the house of Baal Berith, with which Abimelech hired vain and light fellows, who followed him.

    5 He went to his father's house at Ophrah, and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, being seventy persons, on one stone: but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.

  • 1 Chr 7:4
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    4 With 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.

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

  • Judg 10:4
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    4 He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkey colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havvoth Jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.

  • Judg 12:14
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    14 He had forty sons and thirty sons' sons, who rode on seventy donkey colts: and he judged Israel eight years.

  • Judg 11:1-2
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    69%

    1 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor, and he was the son of a prostitute: and Gilead became the father of Jephthah.

    2 Gilead's wife bore him sons; and when his wife's sons grew up, they drove out Jephthah, and said to him, "You shall not inherit in our father's house; for you are the son of another woman."

  • Judg 8:21-22
    2 verses
    69%

    21 Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, "Rise and fall on us; for as the man is, so is his strength." Gideon arose, and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and took the crescents that were on their camels' necks.

    22 Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, "Rule over us, both you, and your son, and your son's son also; for you have saved us out of the hand of Midian."

  • Judg 9:18
    69%

    18 and you have risen up against my father's house this day, and have slain his sons, seventy persons, on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his female servant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother);

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

  • Judg 7:1-2
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    69%

    1 Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people who were with him, rose up early, and encamped beside the spring of Harod: and the camp of Midian was on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.

    2 Yahweh said to Gideon, "The people who are with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, 'My own hand has saved me.'

  • Judg 8:13-14
    2 verses
    68%

    13 Gideon the son of Joash returned from the battle from the ascent of Heres.

    14 He caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and inquired of him: and he described for him the princes of Succoth, and its elders, seventy-seven men.

  • Judg 9:56
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    56 Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father, in killing his seventy brothers;

  • Judg 6:27
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    27 Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as Yahweh had spoken to him: and it happened, because he feared his father's household and the men of the city, so that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night.

  • 2 Chr 11:21
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    21 Rehoboam 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.)

  • 2 Sam 5:13
    68%

    13 David 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.

  • Job 42:13
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    13 He had also seven sons and three daughters.

  • 1 Chr 7:14
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    14 The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his concubine the Aramitess bore: she bore Machir the father of Gilead:

  • 1 Kgs 11:3
    67%

    3 He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.

  • 1 Chr 8:8-9
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    67%

    8 Shaharaim became the father of children in the field of Moab, after he had sent them away; Hushim and Baara were his wives.

    9 He became the father of Hodesh his wife, Jobab, and Zibia, and Mesha, and Malcam,

  • Job 1:2
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    2 There were born to him seven sons and three daughters.

  • Judg 9:24
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    24 that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and that their blood might be laid on Abimelech their brother, who killed them, and on the men of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.

  • 1 Chr 8:29-30
    2 verses
    66%

    29 In Gibeon there lived the father of Gibeon, [Jeiel], whose wife's name was Maacah;

    30 and his firstborn son Abdon, and Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Nadab,

  • Hos 1:3
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    3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived, and bore him a son.

  • Judg 8:10-11
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    66%

    10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of all the army of the children of the east; for there fell one hundred twenty thousand men who drew sword.

    11 Gideon went up by the way of those who lived in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and struck the army; for the army was secure.

  • 2 Chr 24:3
    66%

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

  • Mark 12:20
    66%

    20 There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying left no offspring.

  • Jer 29:6
    66%

    6 Take 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.

  • Judg 6:34
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    34 But the Spirit of Yahweh came on Gideon; and he blew a trumpet; and Abiezer was gathered together after him.

  • 1 Chr 8:3
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    3 Bela had sons: Addar, and Gera, and Abihud,

  • 2 Chr 11:23
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    23 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.

  • 1 Chr 7:17
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    17 The sons of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.

  • Song 6:8
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    8 There are sixty queens, eighty concubines, and virgins without number.

  • Num 31:35
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    35 and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of the women who had not known man by lying with him.