2 Chronicles 11:22 References

22 aRehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah as head and leader among his brothers, for he intended to make him king.

a Deuteronomy 21:15-17

Deuteronomy 21

15 "If a man has two wives, the one loved and athe other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have borne him sons, if the firstborn son belongs to the unloved,

16 then it shall be in the day he wills what he has to his sons, he cannot make the son of the loved the firstborn before the son of the unloved, who is the firstborn.

17 "But he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the unloved, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the abeginning of his strength; bto him belongs the right of the firstborn.