Thematic Bible: Concubinage


Thematic Bible



"If a man sell his daughter to be a servant: she shall not go out as the menservants do. If she please not her master, so that he hath given her to no man to wife, then shall he let her go free: to sell her unto a strange nation shall he have no power, because he despised her. If he have promised her unto his son to wife, he shall deal with her as men do with their daughters. read more.
If he take him another wife, yet her food, raiment and duty of marriage shall he not minish. If he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free and pay no money.

"'When a man lieth with a woman and hath to do with her, which is a bondwoman and hath been meddled withal of another man; but not loosed out nor hath obtained freedom, it shall be punished: but they shall not suffer death, because she was not free. And he shall bring for his trespass offering unto the LORD, even unto the door of the tabernacle of witness: a ram for a trespass offering. And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before the LORD, for his sin which he hath done: and it shall be forgiven him, as concerning the sin which he hath done.

When thou goest to war against thine enemies and the LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands and thou hast taken them captive, and seest among the captives a beautiful woman and hast a fantasy unto her that thou wouldest have her to thy wife; then bring her home to thine house and let her shave her head and pare her nails read more.
and put her raiment that she was taken in from her, and let her remain in thine house and beweep her father and her mother a month long and after that go in unto her and marry her and let her be thy wife. And if thou have no favour unto her, then let her go whither she lusteth: for thou mayest not sell her for money nor make chevisance of her, because thou hast humbled her.

Then Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar her maid the Egyptian - after Abram had dwelled ten years in the land of Canaan - and gave her to her husband Abram, to be his wife. Verse ConceptsConcubinesTen To Fourteen YearsGiving In Marriagemistress

And unto the sons of his concubines he gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son - while he yet lived - eastward, unto the east country. Verse ConceptsGroups Sent Away

The sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine: she bare Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbok and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan. Verse ConceptsConcubines

And these are the generations of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he kept sheep with his brethren, and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah and of Zilpah his father's wives. And he brought unto their father an evil saying that was of them. Verse ConceptsThose Who Kept StockHalf brothersParents Being Wrong

And her husband arose and went after her, to speak friendly unto her, and to bring her home again; and his lad with him and a couple of asses. And she brought him unto her father's house, and when the father of the damsel saw him, he rejoiced of his coming. And his father-in-law, the damsel's father, kept him that he abode with him three days and so they ate and drank and lodged there. The fourth day they arose early in the morning, and the man stood up to depart. But the damsel's father said unto his son-in-law, "Comfort thine heart with a morsel of bread and then go your way."

And David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron, and more sons and daughters were yet born to David. Verse ConceptsConcubinesPolygamyDavid's Wives

And the king and all his household departed afoot. And he left behind him ten wives that were his concubines, to keep the house. Verse ConceptsConcubinesTen People

Then she said unto Abraham, "Put away this bondmaid and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son Isaac." Verse ConceptsInheritance, MaterialFamilyQuarrelsOld Testament People As Typessarah

And behold, the word of the LORD spake unto Abram saying, "He shall not be thine heir, but one that shall come out of thine own body shall be thine heir." Verse ConceptsGod, Faithfulness OfAbrahamBody

And Ephah, a concubine of Caleb's, bare Haran, Moza and Gazez: and Haran begat Gazez. The sons of Jahdai were: Regem, Jotham, Geshan, Pelet, Ephah and Shaaph. And Maacah, another concubine of Caleb's, bare Sheber and Tirhanah.

And Bethuel begat Rebekah. These eight did Milcah bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother. And his concubine called Reuma she bare also Tebah, Gaham, Tahash and Maacha.

Sara saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had borne unto Abraham, a mocking. Then she said unto Abraham, "Put away this bondmaid and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son Isaac." But the word seemed very grievous in Abraham's sight, because of his son. read more.
Then the LORD said unto Abraham, "Let it not be grievous unto thee, because of the lad and of thy bondmaid: But in all that Sara hath said unto thee, hear her voice, for in Isaac shall thy seed be called. Moreover of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed." And Abraham rose up early in the morning and took bread and a bottle with water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulders with the lad also, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered up and down in the wilderness of Beersheba.

But Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and concubines for he took eighteen wives and three score concubines, and begat three score daughters and twenty eight sons. Verse ConceptsConcubinesEighteenTwenty Some

And Abijah waxed mighty, and took him fourteen wives, and begat twenty two sons and sixteen daughters. Verse ConceptsPolygamyFourteenTwenty Some

The sons of Manasseh: Asriel which Aramea his concubine bare: she bare also Machir the father of Gilead. Verse ConceptsConcubines


And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz, Esau's son, and bare unto Eliphaz, Amalek. And these be the sons of Adah, Esau's wife. Verse ConceptsConcubines

And Saul had a concubine named Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah. And Ishbosheth said to Abner, "Wherefore liest thou with my father's concubine?" Verse ConceptsConcubinesSleep, PhysicalExtra Marital Sex Examplesmistress

And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife. And Jacob went in unto her: Verse ConceptsMarital SexMarital Sex BetweenGiving In MarriagesexBuilding Relationships

It chanced in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that a certain Levite dwelling on the side of mount Ephraim, took to wife a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah: Verse ConceptsConcubinesKingship, HumanBethlehemNo King

And his concubine that dwelt in Shechem bare him a son also, whose name he called Abimelech.

and when he was drunken with wine, he commanded to bring him the golden and silver vessels, which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple at Jerusalem: that the king and his lords with his queen and concubines might drink thereout. Verse ConceptsPolygamySilverHoly VesselsSacred VesselsSacrilegeGold TransferredOther Wives