But Abijah grew mighty. And he took fourteen wives and had twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.
We do not find that Jeroboam offered to make any answer at all to Abijah's speech. Though it was much to the purpose, he resolved not to heed it, and therefore he heard it as though he heard it not. He came to fight, not to dispute. The longest sword, he thought, would determine the matter, not the better cause.
Commenting on 2 Chronicles 13:13-22
And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings,.... Not only his warlike actions, and his course of life, but some remarkable sayings of his, he being a man of wisdom and eloquence, as his above speech shows: are written in the story of the prophet Iddo; who might write the history of his own times; see Kg1 15:7. Next: 2 Chronicles Chapter 14
Married fourteen wives - Probably he made alliances with the neighboring powers, by taking their daughters to him for wives.