Jueces 8:30

30 Y tuvo Gedeón setenta hijos que fueron sus descendientes directos, porque tuvo muchas mujeres.

Jueces 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.

Jueces 8:30 In-Context

28 Así fue subyugado Madián delante de los hijos de Israel, y ya no volvieron a levantar cabeza. Y el país tuvo descanso por cuarenta años en los días de Gedeón.

29 Entonces Jerobaal, hijo de Joás, fue y habitó en su casa.

30 Y tuvo Gedeón setenta hijos que fueron sus descendientes directos, porque tuvo muchas mujeres.

31 La concubina que tenía en Siquem también le dio un hijo, y le puso por nombre Abimelec.

32 Y murió Gedeón, hijo de Joás, a una edad avanzada y fue sepultado en el sepulcro de su padre Joás, en Ofra de los abiezeritas.