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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. Verse ConceptsConcubinesTen To Fourteen YearsGiving In Marriagemistress

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. Verse ConceptsGroups Sent Away

The descendants born to Keturah, Abraham's mistress, were Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. The descendants of Jokshan were Sheba and Dedan. Verse ConceptsConcubines

But after arriving in Jerusalem after leaving Hebron, David took more wives and mistresses, and more sons and daughters were born to David. Verse ConceptsConcubinesPolygamyDavid's Wives

So the king left, taking his entire household with him except for ten mistresses, who were to keep the palace in order. Verse ConceptsConcubinesTen People

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,

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.

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.) Verse ConceptsConcubinesEighteenTwenty Some

but Abijah continued to grow more powerful. He took fourteen wives for himself and fathered 22 sons and sixteen daughters. Verse ConceptsPolygamyFourteenTwenty Some

Manasseh's descendants included Asriel, whom his Aramean mistress bore, along with Machir, who fathered Gilead. Verse ConceptsConcubines


Timnah was a concubine of Esau's son Eliphaz. She bore Amalek to Eliphaz. Verse ConceptsConcubines

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?" Verse ConceptsConcubinesSleep, PhysicalExtra Marital Sex Examplesmistress

So Rachel gave Jacob her woman servant Bilhah to be his wife, and Jacob had sex with her. Verse ConceptsMarital SexMarital Sex BetweenGiving In MarriagesexBuilding Relationships

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. Verse ConceptsConcubinesKingship, HumanBethlehemNo King

His mistress in Shechem bore him a son whom he named Abimelech.

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. Verse ConceptsPolygamySilverHoly VesselsSacred VesselsSacrilegeGold TransferredOther Wives

Those who do survive him disease will bury, and his widow won't even weep. Verse ConceptsWidowsActual WidowsNot Mourning

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