2 Chronicles 11:23
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.
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2 Chronicles 11:23
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.
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Genesis 26:3
Keep in this land, and I will be with you and give you my blessing; for to you and to your seed will I give all these lands, giving effect to the oath which I made to your father Abraham;
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Genesis 26:4
I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and will give them all these lands, and your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth;
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Exodus 1:10
Let us take care for fear that their numbers may become even greater, and if there is a war, they may be joined with those who are against us, and make an attack on us, and go up out of the land.
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Deuteronomy 17:17
And 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.
Judges 8:30
Gideon had seventy sons, the offspring of his body; for he had a number of wives.
2 Samuel 5:13
And David took more women and wives in Jerusalem, after he had come from Hebron: and he had more sons and daughters.
1 Kings 11:3
He had seven hundred wives, daughters of kings, and three hundred other wives; and through his wives his heart was turned away.
1 Chronicles 3:1
Now these were David's sons, whose birth took place in Hebron: the oldest Amnon, by Ahinoam of Jezreel; the second Daniel, by Abigail the Carmelite woman;
1 Chronicles 3:2
The third Absalom, the son of Maacah, the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur; the fourth Adonijah, the son of Haggith;
1 Chronicles 3:3
The fifth Shephatiah, by Abital; the sixth Ithream, by Eglah his wife.
1 Chronicles 3:4
He had six sons in Hebron; he was ruling there for seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem for thirty-three years.
Song of Solomon 6:8
There are sixty queens, and eighty servant-wives, and young girls without number.
Song of Solomon 6:9
My dove, my very beautiful one, is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the dearest one of her who gave her birth. The daughters saw her, and gave her a blessing; yes, the queens and the servant-wives, and they gave her praises.
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Deuteronomy 21:15
If 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:
Deuteronomy 21:16
Then when he gives his property to his sons for their heritage, he is not to put the son of his loved one in the place of the first son, the son of the hated wife:
Deuteronomy 21:17
But he is to give his first son his birthright, and twice as great a part of his property: for he is the first-fruits of his strength and the right of the first son is his.
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2 Samuel 3:2
While David was in Hebron he became the father of sons: the oldest was Amnon, son of Ahinoam of Jezreel;
2 Samuel 3:3
And the second, Chileab, whose mother was Abigail, the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom, son of Maacah, the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur;
2 Samuel 3:4
And the fourth, Adonijah, the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah, the son of Abital;
2 Samuel 3:5
And the sixth, Ithream, whose mother was David's wife Eglah. These were the sons of David, whose birth took place in Hebron.
1 Kings 1:5
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.
1 Kings 1:6
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 Chronicles 21:2
And he had brothers, sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah, Jehiel, Zechariah, Azariah, Michael, and Shephatiah; all these were sons of Jehoshaphat, king of Israel.
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1 Kings 11:43
And Solomon went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in the town of David his father: and Solomon went to rest with his fathers and Rehoboam his son became king in his place.
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1 Kings 13:2
And by the order of the Lord he made an outcry against the altar, saying, O altar, altar, the Lord has said, From the seed of David will come a child, named Josiah, and on you he will put to death the priests of the high places, who are burning offerings on you, and men's bones will be burned on you.
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1 Kings 15:2
For three years he was king in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Maacah, the daughter of Abishalom.
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1 Kings 20:15
Then he got together the servants of all the chiefs who were over the divisions of the land, two hundred and thirty-two of them; and after them, he got together all the people, all the children of Israel, seven thousand.
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1 Chronicles 3:5
And in Jerusalem he had four sons, Shimea and Shobab and Nathan and Solomon, by Bath-shua, the daughter of Ammiel;
1 Chronicles 3:6
And Ibhar and Elishama and Eliphelet
1 Chronicles 3:7
And Nogah and Nepheg and Japhia
1 Chronicles 3:8
And Elishama and Eliada and Eliphelet, nine.
1 Chronicles 3:9
All these were the sons of David, in addition to the sons of his servant-wives; and Tamar was their sister.
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1 Chronicles 13:2
And David said to all the men of Israel who had come together there, If it seems good to you and if it is the purpose of the Lord our God, let us send to all the rest of our brothers, everywhere in the land of Israel, and to the priests and the Levites in their towns and the country round them, and get them to come together here to us;
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2 Chronicles 11:1
And 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.
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2 Chronicles 12:4
And he took the walled towns of Judah, and came as far as Jerusalem.
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2 Chronicles 13:2
He was king in Jerusalem for three years; his mother's name was Maacah, the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.
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2 Chronicles 14:5
And he took away the high places and the sun-images from all the towns of Judah; and the kingdom was quiet under his rule.
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2 Chronicles 17:2
He 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.
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2 Chronicles 17:12
Jehoshaphat became greater and greater, and made strong towers and store-towns in Judah.
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2 Chronicles 34:33
Josiah took away all the disgusting things out of all the lands of the children of Israel, and made all who were in Israel servants of the Lord their God. And as long as he was living they were true to the Lord, the God of their fathers.
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Psalms 45:16
Your children will take the place of your fathers; so that you may make them rulers over all the earth.
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Psalms 116:9
I will go before the Lord in the land of the living.
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2 Chronicles 10:8
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.
2 Chronicles 10:9
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?
2 Chronicles 10:10
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;
2 Chronicles 10:11
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.
2 Chronicles 10:12
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.
2 Chronicles 10:13
And the king gave them a rough answer. So King Rehoboam gave no attention to the suggestion of the old men,
2 Chronicles 10:14
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.
2 Chronicles 10:15
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.
Luke 16:8
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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