Verse 21
(21) 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 threescore concubines.—Josephus (l.c.) says, “thirty,” and the difference in Hebrew is only of one letter. The recurrence of the same number immediately (“threescore daughters”) is also suspicious.
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