Thematic Bible: Bastard


Thematic Bible



So Hagar gave birth to Abram’s son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son Hagar had.

So Abram’s wife Sarai took Hagar, her Egyptian slave, and gave her to her husband Abram as a wife for him. This happened after Abram had lived in the land of Canaan 10 years.

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave and the other by a free woman.


A mongrel people will live in Ashdod,
and I will destroy the pride of the Philistines.

But if you are without discipline—which all receive—then you are illegitimate children and not sons.


So both of Lot's daughters became pregnant by their father. The firstborn gave birth to a son and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites of today.


One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing-a very beautiful woman. So David sent someone to inquire about her, and he reported, "This is Bathsheba, daughter of Eliam and wife of Uriah the Hittite." David sent messengers to get her, and when she came to him, he slept with her. Now she had just been purifying herself from her uncleanness. Afterwards, she returned home. read more.
The woman conceived and sent word to inform David: "I am pregnant."


Jephthah the Gileadite was a great warrior, but he was the son of a prostitute, and Gilead was his father.


No one of illegitimate birth may enter the Lord’s assembly; none of his descendants, even to the tenth generation, may enter the Lord’s assembly.


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