10 Now Aʹhab had seventy+ sons in Sa·marʹi·a.+ Therefore Jeʹhu wrote letters and sent them to Sa·marʹi·a to the princes+ of Jezʹre·el, the older men+ and the caretakers of Aʹhab,* saying:

21 And Re·ho·boʹam was more in love with Maʹa·cah the granddaughter of Abʹsa·lom than all his other wives+ and his concubines; for there were eighteen wives that he had taken, also sixty concubines, so that he became father to twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.