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The NET Bible®

1 Chronicles 14:3

In Jerusalem David married more wives and fathered more sons and daughters.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Polygamy;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Tyre or Tyrus;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - David;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - David;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
David took more wives in Jerusalem, and he became the father of more sons and daughters.
Hebrew Names Version
David took more wives at Yerushalayim; and David became the father of more sons and daughters.
King James Version
And David took more wives at Jerusalem: and David begat more sons and daughters.
English Standard Version
And David took more wives in Jerusalem, and David fathered more sons and daughters.
New Century Version
David married more women in Jerusalem and had more sons and daughters.
Amplified Bible
Then David took more wives at Jerusalem, and he became the father of more sons and daughters.
New American Standard Bible
Then David took more wives in Jerusalem, and David fathered more sons and daughters.
World English Bible
David took more wives at Jerusalem; and David became the father of more sons and daughters.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Also Dauid tooke moe wiues at Ierusalem, and Dauid begate moe sonnes and daughters.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then David took more wives at Jerusalem, and David became the father of more sons and daughters.
Berean Standard Bible
And David took more wives in Jerusalem and became the father of more sons and daughters.
Contemporary English Version
After David moved to Jerusalem, he married more women and had more sons and daughters.
Complete Jewish Bible
David took more concubines and wives in Yerushalayim, and David became father of more sons and daughters.
Darby Translation
And David took more wives at Jerusalem: and David begot more sons and daughters.
Easy-to-Read Version
David married more women in the city of Jerusalem and had more sons and daughters.
George Lamsa Translation
And David took more wives in Jerusalem, after he had come from Hebron, and there were born to him more sons and daughters.
Good News Translation
There in Jerusalem, David married more wives and had more sons and daughters.
Lexham English Bible
And David took more wives in Jerusalem, and David fathered more sons and daughters.
Literal Translation
And David again took wives in Jerusalem. And David again fathered sons and daughters.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Dauid toke yet mo wyues at Ierusalem, & begat yet mo sonnes & doughters.
American Standard Version
And David took more wives at Jerusalem; and David begat more sons and daughters.
Bible in Basic English
And while he was living in Jerusalem, David took more wives and became the father of more sons and daughters.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Dauid toke yet mo wyues at Hierusalem, and begat mo sonnes and daughters.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And David took more wives at Jerusalem; and David begot more sons and daughters.
King James Version (1611)
And Dauid tooke moe wiues at Ierusalem: and Dauid begate moe sonnes and daughters.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And David took more wives in Jerusalem: and there were born to David more sons and daughters.
English Revised Version
And David took more wives at Jerusalem: and David begat more sons and daughters.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Dauid took othere wyues in Jerusalem, and gendride sones and douytris.
Update Bible Version
And David took more wives at Jerusalem; and David begot more sons and daughters.
Webster's Bible Translation
And David took more wives at Jerusalem: and David begat more sons and daughters.
New King James Version
Then David took more wives in Jerusalem, and David begot more sons and daughters.
New Living Translation
Then David married more wives in Jerusalem, and they had more sons and daughters.
New Life Bible
Then David took more wives at Jerusalem. He became the father of more sons and daughters.
New Revised Standard
David took more wives in Jerusalem, and David became the father of more sons and daughters.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And David took more wives, in Jerusalem, - and David begat more sons and daughters.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And David took other wives in Jerusalem: and he begot sons, and daughters.
Revised Standard Version
And David took more wives in Jerusalem, and David begot more sons and daughters.
Young's Literal Translation
And David taketh again wives in Jerusalem, and David begetteth again sons and daughters;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then David took more wives at Jerusalem, and David became the father of more sons and daughters.

Contextual Overview

1 King Hiram of Tyre sent messengers to David, along with cedar logs, stonemasons, and carpenters to build a palace for him. 2 David realized that the Lord had established him as king over Israel and that he had elevated his kingdom for the sake of his people Israel. 3 In Jerusalem David married more wives and fathered more sons and daughters. 4 These are the names of children born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, 5 Ibhar, Elishua, Elpelet, 6 Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia, 7 Elishama, Beeliada, and Eliphelet.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

took: 1 Chronicles 3:1-4, Deuteronomy 17:17, 2 Samuel 5:13, 1 Kings 11:3, Proverbs 5:18, Proverbs 5:19, Ecclesiastes 7:26-29, Ecclesiastes 9:9, Malachi 2:14, Matthew 19:4, Matthew 19:5, Matthew 19:8

more: Heb. yet

Cross-References

Genesis 19:24
Then the Lord rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah. It was sent down from the sky by the Lord .
Numbers 34:12
Then the border will continue down the Jordan River and its direction will be to the Salt Sea. This will be your land by its borders that surround it.'"
Deuteronomy 3:17
The Arabah and the Jordan River were also a border, from the sea of Kinnereth to the sea of the Arabah (that is, the Salt Sea), beneath the watershed of Pisgah to the east.
Joshua 3:16
the water coming downstream toward them stopped flowing. It piled up far upstream at Adam (the city near Zarethan); there was no water at all flowing to the sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea). The people crossed the river opposite Jericho.
Psalms 107:34
and a fruitful land into a barren place, because of the sin of its inhabitants.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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