40 Bible Verses about Concubines

And there will be to him seven hundred chief wives, and three hundred concubines: and his wives will turn his heart

And to Gideon were seventy sons going out of his thigh: for many women were to him. And his concubine which is in Shechem, she will bear to him a son, and she will set his name Abimelech.

And David will take yet concubines and wives from Jerusalem after his coming from Hebron, and there will be yet born to David sons and daughters.

And Joab will come to the king, to the house, and say, Thou shamedst this day the faces of all thy servants saving thy soul this day, and the soul of thy sons and thy daughters, and the soul of thy wives, and the soul of thy concubines;

And Rehoboam will love Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: for he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines; and he will beget twenty and eight sons, and sixty daughters.

Belshazzar said, in tasting the wine, to bring in for the vessels of gold and silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father brought forth from the temple that was in Jerusalem; and in them the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines, will drink. At that time they brought the vessels of gold that were brought forth from the temple of the house of God which was in Jerusalem; and in them they drank, the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines.

And Sarai, Abram's wife, will take Hagar the Egyptian, her maid servant, at the end of ten years of Abram's resting in the land of Canaan, and will give her to Abram her husband, to him for a wife.

And Abraham will add and take a wife; and her name Keturah.

And it will be in those days, and no king in Israel; and it will be a man, a Levite, sojourning in the sides of mount Ephraim, and he will take to him a wife, a concubine, from the House of Bread, of Judah. And his concubine will commit fornication against him, and she will go from him to the house of her father, to the House of Bread, of Judah, and she will be there the days of four months. And her husband will rise and go after her to speak to her heart, to turn it back; and his young man with him and a pair of asses: and she will bring him into her father's house; and the father of the girl will see him and will rejoice at his meeting.read more.
And his father-in-law, the girl's father, will hold fast upon him, and he will dwell with, him three days: and they will eat and drink and lodge there.

And the child will become great, and shall be weaned; and Abraham will make a great drinking in the day of weaning Isaak. And Sarah will see the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she brought forth to Abraham, laughing. And she will say to Abraham, Cast out this maid-servant and her son; for the son of this maid-servant shall not inherit with my son, with Isaak.read more.
And the word was greatly evil in the eyes of Abraham, on account of his son. And God will say to Abraham, It shall not be evil in thine eyes concerning the boy, and concerning thy maidservant; all which Sarah shall say to thee, hear to her voice; for in Isaak the seed shall be called to thee. And also the son of this maid-servant, I will make him into a nation, for he is thy seed. And Abraham will rise early in the morning, and take food, and a leathern bottle of water, and give to Hagar (putting upon her shoulder), and the child, and will send her away: and she will go forth and wander in the desert to the well of the oath.

And if a man shall sell his daughter for a maid, she shall not go forth as the servants went forth. If evil in the eyes of her lord, he did not betroth her and he ransomed her: to a strange people he shall not have power to sell her, in his acting deceitfully by her. And if to a son he shall betroth her, according to the judgment of daughters he shall do to her.read more.
If he shall take to him another, her food and her covering and her cohabitation he shall not take away. And if he shall not do these three to her, she shall go forth gratuitously without silver.

And she will say, Behold my maid Bilhah; go in to her, and she shall bring forth upon my knees, and I also shall be built from her. And she will give to him Bilhah her maid for a wife, and Jacob will go in to her. And Bilhah will conceive and will bear to Jacob a son.read more.
And Rachel will say, God judged me and also heard my voice, and he will give to me a son; for this she called his name Dan.

And Leah will see that she stood from bringing forth, and she will take Zilpah her maid and will give her to Jacob for a wife.

And Sarai, Abram's wife, brought not forth to him; and to her a maid servant, an Egyptian, and her name Hagar. And Sarai will say to Abram, Behold now, Jehovah restrained me from bringing forth; go now to my maid servant; perhaps I shall have children from her. And Abram will listen to the voice of Sarai.

For it has been written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the bondmaid, and one by the free. But he truly of the bondmaid was born according to the flesh; and he of the free through the promise.

And Abram will go in to Hagar, and she will conceive, and she will see that she conceived; and her mistress will be despised in her eyes. And Sarai will say to Abram, My wrong upon thee: I gave my maid servant into thy bosom, and she will see that she conceived, and I shall be despised in her eyes. Jehovah will judge between me and between thee. And Abram will say to Sarai, Behold thy maid servant in thy hand; do to her the good in thine eyes. And Sarai shall afflict her, and she will flee from her face.

And Sarah will see the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she brought forth to Abraham, laughing.

For a hated woman when she shall be married and a maid when she shall inherit to her mistress.

But as then he born according to the flesh drove out him according to the Spirit, so also now.

And she will say to Abraham, Cast out this maid-servant and her son; for the son of this maid-servant shall not inherit with my son, with Isaak. And the word was greatly evil in the eyes of Abraham, on account of his son. And God will say to Abraham, It shall not be evil in thine eyes concerning the boy, and concerning thy maidservant; all which Sarah shall say to thee, hear to her voice; for in Isaak the seed shall be called to thee.

And Abraham will give all which is to him to Isaak. And to the sons of the concubines which were to Abraham, Abraham gave gifts, and he will send them away from Isaak his son (in his yet living) from the east to the east land.

And ye rose up against the house of my father this day, and ye will kill his sons, seventy men, upon one stone; and ye will make Abimelech, son of his maid, king over the lords of Shechem, because he is your brother:)

Neither that the seed of Abraham, are all children: but, In Isaac shall the seed be called to thee.

But what says the writing? Cast out the bondmaid and her son; for the son of the bondmaid shall not inherit with the son of the free.

To whom it was spoken, That in Isaac shall seed be called to thee:

And it will be in the dwelling of Israel in that land, and Reuben will go, and will lie with Bilhah, his father's concubine: and Israel will hear. And the sons of Jacob will be twelve.

Reuben, my first-born, thou my strength, and the beginning of my strength, the abundance of elevation, and the abundance of might Vain glorious as water, thou shalt not be preeminent; for thou didst go up out of thy father's. bed; then didst thou defile, going up to my couch.

And the sons of Reuben the first-born of Israel, (for he the firstborn; and in his defiling his father's bed, the birth-right was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; and not to be enrolled for the birthright

And to Saul a concubine, and her name Rizpah, daughter of Aiah: and he will say to Abner, Wherefore wentest thou in to my father's concubine?

And I will give thee the house of thy lord and thy lord's wives into thy bosom, and I will give to thee the house of Israel and Judah; and if little, I will add to thee according to these and according to these.

And Ahithophel will say to Absalom, Come in to thy father's concubines which he left to watch the house; and all Israel hearing that thou madest thy father loathsome, and the hands of all that are with thee were strengthened. And they will stretch out a tent for Absalom upon the roof, and Absalom will go in to his father's concubines before the eyes of all Israel.

And she will say, Give Abishag the Shunamite to Adonijah thy brother for wife. And king Solomon will answer, and say to his mother, And wherefore didst thou ask Abishag the Shunamite for Adonijah? And ask for him the kingdom, for he my brother, the great above me; and for him Abiathar the priest., and Joab son of Zeruiah.

And Bethuel will beget Rebekah: these eight, Milcah will bring forth to Nahor, Abraham's brother. And his concubine, and her name Reumah, and she will bare Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachab.

And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz, Esau's son; and she will bear to Eliphaz, Amalek; these the sons of Adah, Esau's wife.

And it will be in those days, and no king in Israel; and it will be a man, a Levite, sojourning in the sides of mount Ephraim, and he will take to him a wife, a concubine, from the House of Bread, of Judah.

And the king will go forth, and all his house at his feet. And the king will leave ten women, concubines, to watch the house.

And the sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine: she brought forth Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan; Sheba, and Dedan.

And Ephah, Caleb's concubine, bare Haran, and Moza, and Gazez: and Haran begat Gazez. And the sons of Jahdai: Regem and Jotham, and Gesham, and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph. Caleb's concubine, Maachah, bare Sheber and Tirhanah.

The sons of Manasseh: Ashriel which she bare: (his concubine the Ammitess bare Machir the father of Gilead.

And against the Lord of the heavens thou didst lift up thyself; and for the vessels of his house they brought before thee, and thou and thy nobles, and thy wives, and thy concubines, drinking wine in them; and to the gods of silver and gold, brass, iron, wood, and stone, who see not, and hear not, and know not, thou didst praise: and to the God whom thy breath in his hand, and all thy ways to him, thou didst not honor.