New Revised Standard Version
But Abijah grew strong. He took fourteen wives, and became the father of twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.

Contemporary English Version
Abijah had a total of 14 wives, 22 sons, and 16 daughters.

New American Bible
while Abijah continued to grow stronger. He married fourteen wives and fathered twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But Abia, being strengthened in his kingdom, took fourteen wives: and begot two and twenty sons, and sixteen daughters.

But Abia, being strengthened in his kingdom, took fourteen wives: and begot two and twenty sons, and sixteen daughters.

waxed

2 Samuel 5:12,13 And David knew that the Lord had confirmed him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom over his people Israel. . . .

fourteen wives

2 Chronicles 11:21 And Roboam loved Maacha the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and concubines: for he had married eighteen wives, and threescore concubines: and he begot eight and twenty sons, and threescore daughters.

begat

Judges 8:30,31 And he had seventy sons, who came out of his thigh, for he had many wives. . . .

Judges 9:5 And he came to his father's house in Ephra, and slew his brethren, the sons of Jerobaal, seventy men, upon one stone: and there remained only Joatham, the youngest son of Jerobaal, who was hidden.

Judges 10:4 Having thirty sons, that rode on thirty ass colts, and were princes of thirty cities, which from his name were called Havoth Jair, that is, the towns of Jair, until this present day, in the land of Galaad.