Song of Solomon 6:8
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There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, and maidens without number,
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In colorful garments she is led to the king; her virgin companions are brought before you.
He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines—and his wives turned his heart away.
King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women.
The daughters of kings are among your honored women; the queen stands at your right hand, adorned with the gold of Ophir.
Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than all his wives and concubines. In all, he had eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and he was the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.
After this I looked and saw a multitude too large to count, from every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands.