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Darby's French Translation

Juges 8:30

Et Gédéon eut soixante-dix fils, issus de ses reins, car il eut beaucoup de femmes.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Gideon;   Joash;   Polygamy;   Thompson Chain Reference - Foes of the Home;   Gideon;   Home;   Jerubbaal;   Polygamy;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Marriage;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Judges, Book of;   Thigh;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Gideon;   Judges (1);   Levi;   Midian, Mtdianites;   Ophrah;   Thigh;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Numbers (2);   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Gideon;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Gid'eon;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Body;   Gideon;   Number;   Thigh;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Marriage;   Polygamy;  

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Or Gédéon eut soixante et dix fils, qui naquirent de lui, car il eut plusieurs femmes.
Louis Segond (1910)
Gédéon eut soixante-dix fils, issus de lui, car il eut plusieurs femmes.
La Bible David Martin (1744)
Or Gédeon eut soixante et dix fils, sortis de sa hanche, parce qu'il eut plusieurs femmes.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

threescore: Judges 9:2, Judges 9:5, Judges 10:4, Judges 12:9, Judges 12:14, Genesis 46:26, Exodus 1:5, 2 Kings 10:1

of his body begotten: Heb. going out of his thigh

many wives: Genesis 2:24, Genesis 7:7, Deuteronomy 17:17, 2 Samuel 3:2-5, 2 Samuel 5:13-16, 1 Kings 11:3, Malachi 2:15, Matthew 19:5-8, Ephesians 5:31-33

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 1:2 - two 2 Chronicles 11:21 - eighteen wives 2 Chronicles 13:21 - begat

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Gideon had seventy sons of his body begotten,.... Not after his victories, for it is plain he had children before; mention is made of Jether, his firstborn, as a youth able to draw a sword, and slay with it, Judges 8:20 but this was the number of all his sons, both before and after, and a large number it was; and the phrase "of his body begotten", or "that went out of his thigh" is used to show that they were his own sons, begotten in wedlock, and not sons that he had taken into his family by adoption, or that he was father-in-law to, having married a woman or women that had sons by a former husband; but these were all his own:

for he had many wives; which, though not agreeable to the original law of marriage, was customary in those times, and even with good men, and was connived at; and this is a reason accounting for his having so many sons.


 
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