2 Chronicles 13:21
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But Abia, being strengthened in his kingdom, took fourteen wives: and begot two and twenty sons, and sixteen daughters.

waxed

2 Samuel 5:12,13 And David knew that the Lord had confirmed him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom over his people Israel. . . .

fourteen wives

2 Chronicles 11:21 And Roboam loved Maacha the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and concubines: for he had married eighteen wives, and threescore concubines: and he begot eight and twenty sons, and threescore daughters.

begat

Judges 8:30,31 And he had seventy sons, who came out of his thigh, for he had many wives. . . .

Judges 9:5 And he came to his father's house in Ephra, and slew his brethren, the sons of Jerobaal, seventy men, upon one stone: and there remained only Joatham, the youngest son of Jerobaal, who was hidden.

Judges 10:4 Having thirty sons, that rode on thirty ass colts, and were princes of thirty cities, which from his name were called Havoth Jair, that is, the towns of Jair, until this present day, in the land of Galaad.

Context
Civil War Against Jeroboam
20And Jeroboam was not able to resist any more, in the days of Abia: and the Lord struck him, and he died. 21But Abia, being strengthened in his kingdom, took fourteen wives: and begot two and twenty sons, and sixteen daughters.22And the rest of the acts of Abia, and of his ways and works, are written diligently in the book of Addo the prophet.…
Cross References
1 Kings 15:7
And the rest of the words of Abiam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda? And there was war between Abiam and Jeroboam.

2 Chronicles 13:20
And Jeroboam was not able to resist any more, in the days of Abia: and the Lord struck him, and he died.

2 Chronicles 13:22
And the rest of the acts of Abia, and of his ways and works, are written diligently in the book of Addo the prophet.

Lexicon
But Abijah
אֲבִיָּ֔הוּ (’ă·ḇî·yā·hū)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 29: Abijah -- 'Yah is my father', an Israelite name

grew strong,
וַיִּתְחַזֵּ֣ק (way·yiṯ·ḥaz·zêq)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hitpael - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2388: To fasten upon, to seize, be strong, obstinate, to bind, restrain, conquer

married
וַיִּ֨שָּׂא־ (way·yiś·śā-)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5375: To lift, carry, take

fourteen
אַרְבַּ֣ע (’ar·ba‘)
Number - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 702: Four

wives,
נָשִׁ֖ים (nā·šîm)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 802: Woman, wife, female

and became the father
וַיּ֗וֹלֶד (way·yō·w·leḏ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage

of twenty-two
עֶשְׂרִ֤ים (‘eś·rîm)
Number - common plural
Strong's Hebrew 6242: Twenty, twentieth

sons
בָּנִ֔ים (bā·nîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1121: A son

and sixteen
וְשֵׁ֥שׁ (wə·šêš)
Conjunctive waw | Number - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8337: Six (a cardinal number)

daughters.
בָּנֽוֹת׃ (bā·nō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1323: A daughter


Additional Translations
But Abijah grew strong, married fourteen wives, and became the father of twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.

But Abijah waxed mighty, and took unto himself fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.

But Abia strengthened himself, and took to himself fourteen wives, and he begot twenty-two sons, and sixteen daughters.

But Abijah strengthened himself, and took fourteen wives, and begot twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.

But Abijah waxed mighty, and took unto himself fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.

But Abijah became mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.

But Abijah grew mighty, and took to himself fourteen wives, and became the father of twenty-two sons, and sixteen daughters.

And Abijah strengtheneth himself, and taketh to him fourteen wives, and begetteth twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters,
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