Jueces 8:30

30 Le nacieron setenta hijos varones, porque tuvo muchas esposas.

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 Esa es la historia de cómo el pueblo de Israel derrotó a Madián, y este nunca se recuperó. Y hubo paz en la tierra durante el resto de la vida de Gedeón, unos cuarenta años más.

29 Luego Gedeón,
hijo de Joás, volvió a su casa.

30 Le nacieron setenta hijos varones, porque tuvo muchas esposas.

31 Además tuvo una concubina en Siquem que le dio un hijo, a quien él llamó Abimelec.

32 Gedeón murió muy anciano, y fue enterrado en la tumba de su padre Joás, en Ofra, en la tierra del clan de Abiezer.