Thematic Bible: The evil effects of
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Polygamy » The evil effects of » Jacob's
She said to her, "Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son's mandrakes, also?" Rachel said, "Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son's mandrakes."
He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
Polygamy » The evil effects of » Husband's favoritism in
If a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers who was hated; then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not make the son of the beloved the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the firstborn: but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.
Polygamy » The evil effects of » Rehoboam's
Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter 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.)
Polygamy » The evil effects of » Elkanah's
but to Hannah he gave a double portion; for he loved Hannah, but the LORD had shut up her womb.