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So, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, and gave her to Abram her husband as a wife. Verse ConceptsConcubinesTen To Fourteen YearsGiving In Marriagemistress

But to the sons of his concubines Abraham gave gifts, and while he was still living he sent them away from his son Isaac, eastward to the east country. Verse ConceptsGroups Sent Away

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

And David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, after he came from Hebron, and more sons and daughters were born to David. Verse ConceptsConcubinesPolygamyDavid's Wives

So the king went out, and all his household after him. And the king left ten concubines to keep the house. Verse ConceptsConcubinesTen People

Ephah also, Caleb's concubine, bore Haran, Moza, and Gazez; and Haran fathered Gazez. The sons of Jahdai: Regem, Jotham, Geshan, Pelet, Ephah, and Shaaph. Maacah, Caleb's concubine, bore Sheber and Tirhanah.

(Bethuel fathered Rebekah.) These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother. Moreover, his concubine, whose name was Reumah, bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.

Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and concubines (he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters). Verse ConceptsConcubinesEighteenTwenty Some

But Abijah grew mighty. And he took fourteen wives and had twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters. Verse ConceptsPolygamyFourteenTwenty Some

The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his Aramean concubine bore; she bore Machir the father of Gilead. Verse ConceptsConcubines


(Timna was a concubine of Eliphaz, Esau's son; she bore Amalek to Eliphaz.) These are the sons of Adah, Esau's wife. Verse ConceptsConcubines

Now Saul had a concubine whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah. And Ish-bosheth said to Abner, "Why have you gone in to my father's concubine?" Verse ConceptsConcubinesSleep, PhysicalExtra Marital Sex Examplesmistress

So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her. Verse ConceptsMarital SexMarital Sex BetweenGiving In MarriagesexBuilding Relationships

In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was sojourning in the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, who took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah. Verse ConceptsConcubinesKingship, HumanBethlehemNo King

And his concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he called his name Abimelech.

Belshazzar, when he tasted the wine, commanded that the vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem be brought, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them. Verse ConceptsPolygamySilverHoly VesselsSacred VesselsSacrilegeGold TransferredOther Wives

Those who survive him the pestilence buries, and his widows do not weep. Verse ConceptsWidowsActual WidowsNot Mourning

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