Rehoboam loved Maacah the granddaughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines; for he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and became the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.
Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah to be chief, the prince among his brothers, for he intended to make him king.
He dealt wisely, and dispersed some of his sons throughout all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, to every fortified city.
He gave them food in abundance; and he sought many wives for them.