CONCUBINAGE

Passages on this topic · 44

• Genesis 15:4

  Behold, Yahweh’s word came to him, saying, “This man will not be your heir, but he who will come out of your own body will be your heir.”

• Genesis 16:3

  Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.

• Genesis 21:9

  Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.

• Genesis 21:10

  Therefore she said to Abraham, “Cast out this servant and her son! For the son of this servant will not be heir with my son, Isaac.”

• Genesis 21:11

  The thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight on account of his son.

• Genesis 21:12

  God said to Abraham, “Don’t let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your servant. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac.

• Genesis 21:13

  I will also make a nation of the son of the servant, because he is your child.”

• Genesis 21:14

  Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

• Genesis 22:23

  Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.

• Genesis 22:24

  His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.

• Genesis 25:6

  but to the sons of Abraham’s concubines, Abraham gave gifts. He sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, to the east country.

• Genesis 30:4

  She gave him Bilhah her servant as wife, and Jacob went in to her.

• Genesis 36:12

  Timna was concubine to Eliphaz, Esau’s son; and she bore to Eliphaz Amalek. These are the sons of Adah, Esau’s wife.

• Genesis 37:2

  This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father.

• Exodus 21:7

  “If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do.

• Exodus 21:8

  If she doesn’t please her master, who has married her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her.

• Exodus 21:9

  If he marries her to his son, he shall deal with her as a daughter.

• Exodus 21:10

  If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.

• Exodus 21:11

  If he doesn’t do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money.

• Leviticus 19:20

  “‘If a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave girl, pledged to be married to another man, and not ransomed, or given her freedom; they shall be punished. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free.

• Leviticus 19:21

  He shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, even a ram for a trespass offering.

• Leviticus 19:22

  The priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before Yahweh for his sin which he has committed: and the sin which he has committed shall be forgiven him.

• Deuteronomy 21:10

  When you go out to battle against your enemies, and Yahweh your God delivers them into your hands, and you carry them away captive,

• Deuteronomy 21:11

  and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you have a desire to her, and desire to take her as your wife;

• Deuteronomy 21:12

  then you shall bring her home to your house. She shall shave her head and trim her nails.

• Deuteronomy 21:13

  She shall take the clothing of her captivity off of herself, and shall remain in your house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month. After that you shall go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.

• Deuteronomy 21:14

  It shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she desires; but you shall not sell her at all for money. You shall not deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her.

• Judges 8:31

  His concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.

• Judges 19:1

  In those days, when there was no king in Israel, there was a certain Levite living on the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim, who took for himself a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah.

• Judges 19:3

  Her husband arose, and went after her, to speak kindly to her, to bring her again, having his servant with him, and a couple of donkeys. She brought him into her father’s house; and when the father of the young lady saw him, he rejoiced to meet him.

• Judges 19:4

  His father-in-law, the young lady’s father, kept him there; and he stayed with him three days. So they ate and drank, and stayed there.

• Judges 19:5

  On the fourth day, they got up early in the morning, and he rose up to depart. The young lady’s father said to his son-in-law, “Strengthen your heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward you shall go your way.”

• 2 Samuel 3:7

  Now Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah; and Ishbosheth said to Abner, “Why have you gone in to my father’s concubine?”

• 2 Samuel 5:13

  David 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.

• 2 Samuel 15:16

  The king went out, and all his household after him. The king left ten women, who were concubines, to keep the house.

• 1 Kings 11:3

  He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.

• 1 Chronicles 1:32

  The sons of Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: she bore Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.

• 1 Chronicles 2:46

  Ephah, Caleb’s concubine, bore Haran, Moza, and Gazez; and Haran became the father of Gazez.

• 1 Chronicles 2:47

  The sons of Jahdai: Regem, Jothan, Geshan, Pelet, Ephah, and Shaaph.

• 1 Chronicles 2:48

  Maacah, Caleb’s concubine, bore Sheber and Tirhanah.

• 1 Chronicles 7:14

  The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his concubine the Aramitess bore. She bore Machir the father of Gilead.

• 2 Chronicles 11:21

  Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines; for he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and became the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

• 2 Chronicles 13:21

  But Abijah grew mighty, and took for himself fourteen wives, and became the father of twenty-two sons, and sixteen daughters.

• Daniel 5:2

  Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, might drink from them.