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Concubinage » Laws concerning » Practiced by » Abraham
So after Abram had been living for ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai took Hagar, her Egyptian servant, and gave her to Abram for his wife.
But to the sons of his other women he gave offerings, and sent them away, while he was still living, into the east country.
And the sons of Keturah, Abraham's servant-wife: she was the mother of Zimran and Jokshan and Medan and Midian and Ishbak and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.
Concubinage » Laws concerning » Practiced by » David
And David took more women and wives in Jerusalem, after he had come from Hebron: and he had more sons and daughters.
So the king went out, taking with him all the people of his house, but for ten of his women, who were to take care of the house.
Concubinage » Laws concerning » Practiced by » Caleb
And Ephah, Caleb's servant-wife, had Haran and Moza and Gazez; and Haran was the father of Gazez. And the sons of Jahdai: Regem and Jotham and Geshan and Pelet and Ephah and Shaaph. Maacah, Caleb's servant-wife, was the mother of Sheber and Tirhanah,
Concubinage » Laws concerning » Practiced by » Nahor
Bethuel was the father of Rebekah: these eight were the children of Milcah and Nahor, Abraham's brother. And his servant Reumah gave birth to Tebah and Gaham and Tahash and Maacah.
Concubinage » Laws concerning » Practiced by » Rehoboam
Maacah, the daughter of Absalom, was dearer to Rehoboam than all his wives and his servant-wives: (for he had eighteen wives and sixty servant-wives, and was the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.)
Concubinage » Laws concerning » Practiced by » Abijah
But Abijah became great, and had fourteen wives, and became the father of twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.
Concubinage » Laws concerning » Practiced by » Manasseh
The sons of Manasseh by his servant-wife, the Aramaean woman: she gave birth to Machir, the father of Gilead;
Concubinage » Laws concerning » Practiced by » Solomon
He had seven hundred wives, daughters of kings, and three hundred other wives; and through his wives his heart was turned away.
Concubinage » Laws concerning » Practiced by » Eliphaz
And Eliphaz, the son of Esau, had connection with a woman named Timna, who gave birth to Amalek: all these were the children of Esau's wife Adah.
Concubinage » Laws concerning » Practiced by » saul
Now Saul had among his wives a woman named Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah: and Ish-bosheth said to Abner, Why have you taken my father's wife?
Concubinage » Laws concerning » Practiced by » jacob
So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.
Concubinage » Laws concerning » Practiced by » A levite
Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was living in the inmost parts of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he got for himself a servant-wife from Beth-lehem-judah.
Concubinage » Laws concerning » Practiced by » gideon
And the servant-wife he had in Shechem had a son by him, to whom he gave the name Abimelech.
Concubinage » Laws concerning » Practiced by » Belshazzar
Belshazzar, while he was overcome with wine, gave orders for them to put before him the gold and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar, his father, had taken from the Temple in Jerusalem; so that the king and his lords, his wives and his other women, might take their drink from them.
Polygamy » Practiced by
When those of his house who are still living come to their end by disease, they are not put into the earth, and their widows are not weeping for them.