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Only these wives with their children are mentioned by name, though besides these Rehoboam had a number of wives, 18 wives and 60 (according to Josephus, 30) concubines, who bore him twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters. Rehoboam trod in his father's footsteps in this not quite praise-worthy point. The eldest son of Maachah he made head (לָרֹאשׁ), i.e., prince, among his brethren; לְהַמְלִיכֹו כִּי, for to make him king, scil. was his intention. The infin. with לְ is here used in the swiftness of speech in loose connection to state with what further purpose he had appointed him נָגִיד; cf. Ew. §351, c, at the end.