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2 Chronicles 11:21

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NETBible

Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than his other wives and concubines. 1  He had eighteen wives and sixty concubines; he fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

XREF

De 17:17; Jud 8:30; 2Sa 3:2-5; 2Sa 5:13; 1Ki 11:3; 1Ch 3:1-9; 2Ch 11:23; So 6:8,9

NET © Notes

sn Concubines were slave women in ancient Near Eastern societies who were the legal property of their master, but who could have legitimate sexual relations with their master. A concubine’s status was more elevated than a mere servant, but she was not free and did not have the legal rights of a free wife. The children of a concubine could, in some instances, become equal heirs with the children of the free wife. After the period of the Judges concubines may have become more of a royal prerogative (2 Sam 21:10-14; 1 Kgs 11:3).



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