Thematic Bible: Bastard


Thematic Bible



So Hagar gave birth to Abram’s son; and Abram named his son, to whom Hagar gave birth, Ishmael (God hears). Verse ConceptsGod Pays AttentionPeople With Apt Names

After Abram had lived in the land of Canaan ten years, Abram’s wife Sarai took Hagar the Egyptian [maid], and gave her to her husband Abram to be his [secondary] wife. Verse ConceptsConcubinesTen To Fourteen YearsGiving In Marriagemistress

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman [Hagar] and one by the free woman [Sarah]. Verse ConceptsAbraham, Testing And VictoryAbraham, New Testament ReferencesTwo Sons


And a mongrel race will live in Ashdod,
And I will put an end to the pride and arrogance of the Philistines.
Verse ConceptsIllegitimate ChildrenMixing PeopleGod Opposes The ProudRace

Now if you are exempt from correction and without discipline, in which all [of God’s children] share, then you are illegitimate children and not sons [at all]. Verse Conceptsdiscipline, divineIllegitimate ChildrenChastisementDiscipline Child

Thus both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father. The older bore a son, and named him Moab [of a father]; he is the father of the Moabites to this day.

One evening David arose from his couch and was walking on the roof of the king's house, when from there he saw a woman bathing; and she was very lovely to behold. David sent and inquired about the woman. One said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite? And David sent messengers and took her. And she came in to him, and he lay with her -- "for she was purified from her uncleanness. Then she returned to her house. read more.
And the woman became pregnant and sent and told David, I am with child.

Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a brave warrior, but he was the son of a prostitute. Gilead was the father of Jephthah. Verse ConceptsIllegitimate ChildrenHarlots

A person of illegitimate birth shall not enter the assembly of the Lord; none of his descendants, even to the tenth generation. Verse ConceptsIllegitimate ChildrenDescendants ofSex Before MarriageInfidelitySexual Purityinterracialmatrimonypremarital