2 Chronicles 11:18-23

Rehoboam Reigns over Judah and Builds Cities

¹⁸Then Rehoboam married Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David and of Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse, ¹⁹and she bore to him sons: Jeush, Shemariah, and Zaham. ²⁰After her he married Maacah the daughter of Absalom, and she bore to him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith. ²¹Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom more than all his other wives and concubines. For he had taken eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters. ²²Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah as head and leader among his brothers, for he intended to make him king. ²³He acted wisely and distributed some of his sons through all the territories of Judah and Benjamin to all the fortified cities, and he gave them plenty of provisions. And he sought many wives for them.