Bible Cross References
made Abijah
Deuteronomy 21:15-17
15
" If a man has two wives, one loved and the other unloved, and they have borne him children, [both] the loved and the unloved, and [if] the firstborn son is of her who is unloved,
16
"then it shall be, on the day he bequeaths his possessions to his sons, [that] he must not bestow firstborn status on the son of the loved wife in preference to the son of the unloved, the [true] firstborn.
17
"But he shall acknowledge the son of the unloved wife [as] the firstborn by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he [is] the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn [is] his.
1 Chronicles 5:1
Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel -- he [was] indeed the firstborn, but because he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph, the son of Israel, so that the genealogy is not listed according to the birthright;
1 Chronicles 5:2
yet Judah prevailed over his brothers, and from him [came] a ruler, although the birthright was Joseph's --
1 Chronicles 29:1
Furthermore King David said to all the assembly: "My son Solomon, whom alone God has chosen, [is] young and inexperienced; and the work [is] great, because the temple [is] not for man but for the LORD God.