Nehemiæ 13:21

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Igitur Abia, confortato imperio suo, accepit uxores quatuordecim: procreavitque viginti duos filios, et sedecim filias.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Igitur Abia, confortato imperio suo, accepit uxores quatuordecim : procreavitque viginti duos filios, et sedecim filias.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Abia autem confortatus est et accepit sibi uxores quattuordecim procreavitque viginti duos filios et sedecim filias.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

waxed: 2 Samuel 5:12, 2 Samuel 5:13

fourteen wives: 2 Chronicles 11:21

begat: Judges 8:30, Judges 8:31, Judges 9:5, Judges 10:4

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 14:31 - Abijam 1 Kings 15:7 - the rest

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But Abijah waxed mighty,.... In his kingdom, increasing in riches and numbers, power and authority, and in his family:

and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons and sixteen daughters; not after the above battle, nor since he began to reign; for he reigned but three years; but he, no doubt, married wives and had children before he came to the throne, as he might have others after.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 13:21. Married fourteen wives — Probably he made alliances with the neighbouring powers, by taking their daughters to him for wives.