27 Bible Verses about Transferring Wives

They were well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing for his neighbor's wife.

Thus says the LORD, 'Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house. And I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.

But the LORDafflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife; take her, and go."

But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him, "Behold, you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is a man's wife."

and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, 'This is his wife.' Then they will kill me, but they will let you live.

So Abimelech called Isaac and said, "Behold, she is your wife. How then could you say, 'She is my sister'?" Isaac said to him, "Because I thought, 'Lest I die because of her.'"

And Samson's wife was given to his companion, who had been his best man.

And her father said, "I really thought that you utterly hated her, so I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her instead."

Then the Philistines said, "Who has done this?" And they said, "Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his companion." And the Philistines came up and burned her and her father with fire.

Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim.

And Ish-bosheth sent and took her from her husband Paltiel the son of Laish.

Why have you despised the word of the LORD, to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.

Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.'

And I gave you your master's house and your master's wives into your arms and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah. And if this were too little, I would add to you as much more.

And he said, "Please ask King Solomon--he will not refuse you--to give me Abishag the Shunammite as my wife."

'Your silver and your gold are mine; your best wives and children also are mine.'"

The messengers came again and said, "Thus says Ben-hadad: 'I sent to you, saying, "Deliver to me your silver and your gold, your wives and your children."

Their houses shall be turned over to others, their fields and wives together, for I will stretch out my hand against the inhabitants of the land," declares the LORD.

Therefore I will give their wives to others and their fields to conquerors, because from the least to the greatest everyone is greedy for unjust gain; from prophet to priest, everyone deals falsely.

All your wives and your sons shall be led out to the Chaldeans, and you yourself shall not escape from their hand, but shall be seized by the king of Babylon, and this city shall be burned with fire."

Now there were seven brothers among us. The first married and died, and having no children left his wife to his brother.

For it was Herod who had sent and seized John and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, because he had married her.

For John had been saying to Herod, "It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife."

In the resurrection, therefore, of the seven, whose wife will she be? For they all had her."

In the resurrection, when they rise again, whose wife will she be? For the seven had her as wife."

In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had her as wife."