She bore him sons: Jeush, Shemariah, and Zaham.
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She bore him sons: Jeush, Shemariah, and Zaham.
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Which bare him children; Jeush, and Shamariah, and Zaham.
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and she bore him sons: Jeush, and Shemariah, and Zaham.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above…
And Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines, &c. Who is called Michaiah, the daughter of Uriel, Ch2 13:2,
for he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines; led thereunto by the example of his father Solomon, contrary to the command of God, Deu 17:17.
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and begat twenty eight sons and sixty daughters; to have many children was reckoned a great blessing, but it was not honourable to have them in such a way.
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (19) Which bare.—And she (i.e., Mahalath) bare.
(19) Which bare.—And she (i.e., Mahalath) bare.
Shamariah.—Shemariah. These sons of Rehoboam occur here only.
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain (See last note.) If previous verse speaks of two…
(See last note.) If previous verse speaks of two wives of Rehoboam, of which wife (our Hebrew text being not "which bare," but "and she bare") were Jeush, Shamariah, and Zaham the children? or of which respectively, if they express the children of both? As the words now stand, it can only be supposed, with all lexicons, that Abihail is mother of the three children on the two-wife supposition.
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.