Thematic Bible: Illegitimate
Thematic Bible
Children » Illegitimate » Had no inheritance
So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and gave her the boy, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered about in the wilderness of Beersheba.
Therefore she said to Abraham, “Drive out this maid and her son, for the son of this maid shall not be an heir with my son Isaac.”
Children » Illegitimate » Excluded from the congregation
No one of illegitimate birth shall enter the assembly of the Lord; none of his descendants, even to the tenth generation, shall enter the assembly of the Lord.
Children » Illegitimate » Sometimes sent away with gifts
but to the sons of his concubines, Abraham gave gifts while he was still living, and sent them away from his son Isaac eastward, to the land of the east.
Children » Illegitimate » Not cared for by the father
But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.
Children » Illegitimate » Despised by their brethren
Gilead’s wife bore him sons; and when his wife’s sons grew up, they drove Jephthah out and said to him, “You shall not have an inheritance in our father’s house, for you are the son of another woman.”