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Concubinage » Laws concerning » Practiced by » Abraham
Abram listened to Sarai's suggestion, so Abram's wife Sarai took her Egyptian servant, Hagar, and gave her as a wife to her husband Abram. This took place ten years after Abram had settled in the land of Canaan.
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While he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to his concubines and sent them to the east country in order to keep them away from his son Isaac.
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The descendants born to Keturah, Abraham's mistress, were Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. The descendants of Jokshan were Sheba and Dedan.
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Concubinage » Laws concerning » Practiced by » David
But after arriving in Jerusalem after leaving Hebron, David took more wives and mistresses, and more sons and daughters were born to David.
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So the king left, taking his entire household with him except for ten mistresses, who were to keep the palace in order.
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Concubinage » Laws concerning » Practiced by » Caleb
Caleb's mistress Ephah also bore Haran, Moza, and Gazez. Haran fathered Gazez. Jahdai's descendants were Regem, Jotham, Geshan, Pelet, Ephah, and Shaaph. Caleb's mistress Maacah bore Sheber, Tirhanah,
Concubinage » Laws concerning » Practiced by » Nahor
Bethuel fathered Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight sons to Nahor, Abraham's brother. Also, his concubine Reumah gave birth to Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
Concubinage » Laws concerning » Practiced by » Rehoboam
Rehoboam loved Absalom's daughter Maacah more than he did all of his wives and mistresses. (He married eighteen wives and 60 concubines, fathering 28 sons and 60 daughters.)
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Concubinage » Laws concerning » Practiced by » Abijah
but Abijah continued to grow more powerful. He took fourteen wives for himself and fathered 22 sons and sixteen daughters.
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Concubinage » Laws concerning » Practiced by » Manasseh
Manasseh's descendants included Asriel, whom his Aramean mistress bore, along with Machir, who fathered Gilead.
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Concubinage » Laws concerning » Practiced by » Solomon
He had 700 princess wives and 300 mistresses who turned his heart away from the LORD,
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Concubinage » Laws concerning » Practiced by » Eliphaz
Timnah was a concubine of Esau's son Eliphaz. She bore Amalek to Eliphaz.
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Concubinage » Laws concerning » Practiced by » saul
Meanwhile, Saul had a mistress named Rizpah, who was the daughter of Aiah. Ish-bosheth asked Abner, "Why did you have sex with my father's mistress?"
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Concubinage » Laws concerning » Practiced by » jacob
So Rachel gave Jacob her woman servant Bilhah to be his wife, and Jacob had sex with her.
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Concubinage » Laws concerning » Practiced by » A levite
Now it happened in those days, before there was a king in Israel, that a certain male descendant of Levi, who lived in a remote part of the mountainous region of Ephraim, took a mistress for himself from Bethlehem in the territory of Judah.
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Concubinage » Laws concerning » Practiced by » gideon
His mistress in Shechem bore him a son whom he named Abimelech.
Concubinage » Laws concerning » Practiced by » Belshazzar
Under the influence of wine, Belshazzar ordered that the gold and silver vessels his grandfather Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the Temple in Jerusalem be brought in so the king, his officials, his wives, and his mistresses could drink from them.
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Polygamy » Practiced by
Those who do survive him disease will bury, and his widow won't even weep.
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