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After Abram lived in Canaan ten years, Sarai, his wife, gave her Egyptian maidservant Hagar to her husband to be his wife. Verse ConceptsConcubinesTen To Fourteen YearsGiving In Marriagemistress

While Abraham was still alive, he gave gifts to the sons of Hagar and Keturah. He also sent their sons to live in the east far from his son Isaac. Verse ConceptsGroups Sent Away

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

David left Hebron and moved to Jerusalem. He married many women from Jerusalem, and he had a lot of children. Verse ConceptsConcubinesPolygamyDavid's Wives

The king left on foot. His whole household followed him. The king left ten concubines behind to take care of the palace. Verse ConceptsConcubinesTen People

Caleb's concubine Ephah was the mother of Haran, Moza and Gazez. Haran was the father of Gazez. The sons of Jahdai: Regem, Jotham, Geshan, Pelet, Ephah and Shaaph. Caleb's concubine Maacah was the mother of Sheber and Tirhanah.

Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These are the eight children Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother. His concubine, Reumah, also bore Tebah and Gaham and Tahash and Maacah.

Rehoboam loved Maacah, Absalom's granddaughter, more than all his other wives and concubines. He had eighteen wives and sixty concubines. He fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters. Verse ConceptsConcubinesEighteenTwenty Some

Abijah became strong. He married fourteen wives and fathered twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters. Verse ConceptsPolygamyFourteenTwenty Some

The descendants of Manasseh: Asriel was his descendant through his Aramean concubine. She gave birth to Makir the father of Gilead. Verse ConceptsConcubines


Timna was the concubine of Eliphaz, Esau's son, and she bore Amalek to Eliphaz. These were the sons of Adah, Esau's wife. Verse ConceptsConcubines

Saul had a concubine named Rizpah. She was Aiah's daughter. Ishbosheth asked Abner: Why did you have sex with my father's concubine? Verse ConceptsConcubinesSleep, PhysicalExtra Marital Sex Examplesmistress

Then Rachel let Jacob marry Bilhah. Jacob slept with Bilhah. Verse ConceptsMarital SexMarital Sex BetweenGiving In MarriagesexBuilding Relationships

There was still no king in Israel. There was a Levite who lived in the remote area of Mount Ephraim. He took for himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah. Verse ConceptsConcubinesKingship, HumanBethlehemNo King

He also kept a concubine in Shechem. She bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.

While he tasted the wine, Belshazzar commanded to bring the gold and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the Temple in Jerusalem. This way the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, might drink from them. Verse ConceptsPolygamySilverHoly VesselsSacred VesselsSacrilegeGold TransferredOther Wives

The plague will bury those who survive him. Their widows will not weep for them. Verse ConceptsWidowsActual WidowsNot Mourning