But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.
Ver. 21. And married fourteen wives.] Some of them before he came to the kingdom. Junius well readeth it, He had married fourteen wives. This was against an express law, Deu 17:17 besides the utter unlawfulness of polygamy, whereof before. But many great men make little of laws; it is plea sufficient for their offence that it is -
“ facinus maioris abollae. ”