Juízes 8:30

30 Teve setenta filhos, todos gerados por ele, pois tinha muitas mulheres.

Juízes 8:30 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 8:30

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.

Juízes 8:30 In-Context

28 Assim Midiã foi subjugado pelos israelitas, e não tornou a erguer a cabeça. Durante a vida de Gideão a terra desfrutou paz quarenta anos.

29 Jerubaal, filho de Joás, retirou-se e foi para casa, onde ficou morando.

30 Teve setenta filhos, todos gerados por ele, pois tinha muitas mulheres.

31 Sua concubina, que morava em Siquém, também lhe deu um filho, a quem ele deu o nome de Abimeleque.

32 Gideão, filho de Joás, morreu em idade avançada e foi sepultado no túmulo de seu pai, Joás, em Ofra dos abiezritas.