David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they both became his wives.
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- KJV David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives.
- BSB David had also married Ahinoam of Jezreel. So she and Abigail were both his wives.
- NKJV David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel, and so both of them were his wives.
- NASB David had also taken Ahinoam of Jezreel, and they both became his wives.
- NLT David also married Ahinoam from Jezreel, making both of them his wives.
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Cross-references · 8
- Josh 15:56Jezreel, Jokdeam, Zanoah,
- 1 Sam 30:5David’s two wives were taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
- 1 Sam 27:3David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal’s wife.
- 2 Sam 3:2Sons were born to David in Hebron. His firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess;
- 2 Sam 5:13–16David took more concubines and wives for himself out of Jerusalem, after he had come from Hebron; and more sons and daughters were born to David.
- Gen 2:24Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
- Matt 19:5and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’
- Matt 19:8He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.
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