Thus David recognized that Jehovah had established him as king over Israel, and that He had exalted His kingdom for His people Israel.

And David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, after he came from Hebron. Also more sons and daughters were born to David.

And Rehoboam loved Maachah the granddaughter of Absalom more than all his wives and his concubines; for he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and begot twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

And Gideon had seventy sons proceeding from his loins, for he had many wives.

And his concubine in Shechem also bore him a son, whose name he called Abimelech.

And he went to his father's house at Ophrah and killed his brothers, the seventy sons of Jerubbaal, on one stone. But Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, because he had hidden himself.

And he had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys; they also had thirty towns, which are called Havoth Jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.