Judges 8:30
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New International Version (©2011)
He had seventy sons of his own, for he had many wives.

New Living Translation (©2007)
He had seventy sons born to him, for he had many wives.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Now Gideon had seventy sons, his own offspring, for he had many wives.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Now Gideon had seventy sons who were his direct descendants, for he had many wives.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Gideon had 70 sons, his own offspring, since he had many wives.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Gideon raised 70 sons as his direct descendants, since he had many wives.

NET Bible (©2006)
Gideon fathered seventy sons through his many wives.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Gideon had 70 sons because he had many wives.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And Gideon had threescore and ten sons, his own offspring: for he had many wives.

American King James Version
And Gideon had three score and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives.

American Standard Version
And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten; for he had many wives.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he had seventy sons, who came out of his thigh, for he had many wives.

Darby Bible Translation
Now Gideon had seventy sons, his own offspring, for he had many wives.

English Revised Version
And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Gideon had seventy sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives.

World English Bible
Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body; for he had many wives.

Young's Literal Translation
and to Gideon there have been seventy sons, coming out of his loin, for he had many wives;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

8:29-35 As soon as Gideon was dead, who kept the people to the worship of the God of Israel, they found themselves under no restraint; then they went after Baalim, and showed no kindness to the family of Gideon. No wonder if those who forget their God, forget their friends. Yet conscious of our own ingratitude to the Lord, and observing that of mankind in general, we should learn to be patient under any unkind returns we meet with for our poor services, and resolve, after the Divine example, not to be overcome of evil, but to overcome evil with good.

Pulpit Commentary

Verses 30-32. - Gideon had threescore and ten sons, etc. This notice helps us to fill up the picture of Gideon's state after the Midianitish victory, lie had indeed nobly refused the kingdom, as a Pericles would have refused to be tyrant of Athena But he did not return to poverty and obscurity, as L. Q. Cincinnatus, in the Roman legend, returned to his plough after his victory over the Volsciana He was judge over Israel for forty years, with a household and a harem like a great prince, living in his paternal city, with the ephod set up there, himself the centre round which the powers of Church and State gathered; directing the affairs of his country, both civil and ecclesiastical, with eminent success, so that the country was at peace for forty years (a peace as long as that which followed the battle of Water-leo], and the detestable Baal-worship was effectually suppressed. And having lived in wealth and honour, he died in peace, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father at Ophrah in a good old age. He remains to us as one of the most remarkable characters of the Old Testament, not indeed without faults and blemishes, and not wholly unspoiled by prosperity, but still a great man, and an eminent servant of God.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Gideon had seventy sons of his body begotten,.... Not after his victories, for it is plain he had children before; mention is made of Jether, his firstborn, as a youth able to draw a sword, and slay with it, Judges 8:20 but this was the number of all his sons, both before and after, and a large number it was; and the phrase "of his body begotten", or "that went out of his thigh" is used to show that they were his own sons, begotten in wedlock, and not sons that he had taken into his family by adoption, or that he was father-in-law to, having married a woman or women that had sons by a former husband; but these were all his own:

for he had many wives; which, though not agreeable to the original law of marriage, was customary in those times, and even with good men, and was connived at; and this is a reason accounting for his having so many sons.

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Forty Years of Peace
28Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon. 29And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelled in his own house. 30And Gideon had three score and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives.

Judges 8:31 His concubine, who lived in Shechem, also bore him a son, whom he named Abimelek.
Judges 9:2 "Ask all the citizens of Shechem, 'Which is better for you: to have all seventy of Jerub-Baal's sons rule over you, or just one man?' Remember, I am your flesh and blood."
Judges 9:5 He went to his father's home in Ophrah and on one stone murdered his seventy brothers, the sons of Jerub-Baal. But Jotham, the youngest son of Jerub-Baal, escaped by hiding.
Judges 9:18 But today you have revolted against my father's family. You have murdered his seventy sons on a single stone and have made Abimelek, the son of his female slave, king over the citizens of Shechem because he is related to you.