Judges 8:30

Gideon has seventy sons by his many wives.

Cross-references · 17

• Judg 9:2“Please speak in the ears of all the men of Shechem, ‘Is it better for you that all the sons of Jerubbaal, who are seventy persons, rule over you, or that one rule over you?’ Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.”
• Judg 9:5He went to his father’s house at Ophrah, and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, being seventy persons, on one stone: but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.
• Deut 17:17He shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
• 1 Kgs 11:3He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.
• Exod 1:5All the souls who came out of Jacob’s body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already.
• Eph 5:31–33“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”
• Judg 10:4He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkey colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havvoth Jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.
• 2 Sam 5:13–16David took more concubines and wives for himself out of Jerusalem, after he had come from Hebron; and more sons and daughters were born to David.
• Judg 12:9He had thirty sons; and thirty daughters he sent outside his clan, and thirty daughters he brought in from outside his clan for his sons. He judged Israel seven years.
• Gen 46:26All the souls who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his direct offspring, besides Jacob’s sons’ wives, all the souls were sixty-six.
• Judg 12:14He had forty sons and thirty sons’ sons, who rode on seventy donkey colts. He judged Israel eight years.
• Gen 2:24Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
• 2 Kgs 10:1Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, even the elders, and to those who brought up Ahab’s sons, saying,
• Gen 7:7Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, because of the floodwaters.
• Matt 19:5–8and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’
• Mal 2:15Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
• 2 Sam 3:2–5Sons were born to David in Hebron. His firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess;

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