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2 Chronicles 13:21 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 21. 21But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.
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Role in This Section
This verse advances the thought unit through its next action, speech, or consequence: “But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Abijah gains towns and dies.”
Read It With
- 2 Chronicles 13:19–22
Read 2 Chronicles 13:21 with 13:19–22. The selected wording supplies one step in the thought unit through its next action, speech, or consequence; the surrounding verses supply the causes, responses, and outcome summarized here: Abijah takes Bethel and other towns, Jeroboam never recovers strength, Abijah's household grows, and prophetic records are cited at his death.
Why It Needs Context
2 Chronicles 13:21 depends on 13:19–22; isolating “But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters” would detach a supporting action, quotation, name, number, object, or transition from “Abijah gains towns and dies.”
Read 2 Chronicles 13:19–22 together
Why these verses belong together: 2 Chronicles 13:19–22 forms the complete movement “Abijah gains towns and dies”: Abijah takes Bethel and other towns, Jeroboam never recovers strength, Abijah's household grows, and prophetic records are cited at his death.
Verse 19. 19 And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Beth-el with the towns thereof, and Jeshanah with the towns thereof, and Ephrain with the towns thereof.
Verse 20. 20 Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and the LORD struck him, and he died.
Verse 21. 21 But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.
Verse 22. 22 And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo.
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Biblical text
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Exact location: 2 Chronicles 13:19–22, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
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Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 2 Chronicles
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