Charles Ellicott Commentary 2 Chronicles 11:21

"And Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines, and begat twenty and eight sons and threescore daughters.)" — 2 Chronicles 11:21 (ASV)

Loved Maachah. —She probably inherited her mother’s and grandfather’s beauty.

For he took — Nâsâ’, as in 2 Chronicles 13:21; a later usage instead of lâqah.

And sixty concubines. —Josephus (in the place cited) says, “thirty,” and the difference in Hebrew is only of one letter. The recurrence of the same number immediately (“sixty daughters”) is also suspicious.