POLYGAMY

Passages on this topic · 102

• Genesis 4:19

  Lamech took two wives: the name of the first one was Adah, and the name of the second one was Zillah.

• Genesis 26:34

  When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.

• Genesis 28:9

  Esau went to Ishmael, and took, besides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.

• Genesis 29:30

  He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

• Genesis 29:31

  Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

• Genesis 29:32

  Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, “Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction. For now my husband will love me.”

• Genesis 29:33

  She conceived again, and bore a son, and said, “Because Yahweh has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also.” She named him Simeon.

• Genesis 29:34

  She conceived again, and bore a son. Said, “Now this time will my husband be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons.” Therefore his name was called Levi.

• Genesis 30:1

  When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”

• Genesis 30:2

  Jacob’s anger burned against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”

• Genesis 30:3

  She said, “Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her.”

• Genesis 30:4

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

• Genesis 30:5

  Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.

• Genesis 30:6

  Rachel said, “God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son.” Therefore called she his name Dan.

• Genesis 30:7

  Bilhah, Rachel’s servant, conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son.

• Genesis 30:8

  Rachel said, “I have wrestled with my sister with mighty wrestlings, and have prevailed.” She named him Naphtali.

• Genesis 30:9

  When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her servant, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

• Genesis 30:10

  Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore Jacob a son.

• Genesis 30:11

  Leah said, “How fortunate!” She named him Gad.

• Genesis 30:12

  Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore Jacob a second son.

• Genesis 30:13

  Leah said, “Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy.” She named him Asher.

• Genesis 30:14

  Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother, Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

• Genesis 30:15

  She said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes, also?” Rachel said, “Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son’s mandrakes.”

• Genesis 30:16

  Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, “You must come in to me; for I have surely hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” He lay with her that night.

• Genesis 30:17

  God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.

• Genesis 30:18

  Leah said, “God has given me my hire, because I gave my servant to my husband.” She named him Issachar.

• Genesis 30:19

  Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.

• Genesis 30:20

  Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons.” She named him Zebulun.

• Genesis 30:21

  Afterwards, she bore a daughter, and named her Dinah.

• Genesis 30:22

  God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.

• Genesis 30:23

  She conceived, bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”

• Exodus 21:10

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

• Leviticus 18:18

  “‘You shall not take a wife to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is yet alive.

• Deuteronomy 17:17

  He shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

• Deuteronomy 21:15

  If a man has two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son is hers who was hated;

• Deuteronomy 21:16

  then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not give the son of the beloved the rights of the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the firstborn;

• Deuteronomy 21:17

  but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his.

• Judges 8:30

  Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body, for he had many wives.

• 1 Samuel 1:2

  He had two wives. The name of one was Hannah, and the name of other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.

• 1 Samuel 1:4

  When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions;

• 1 Samuel 1:5

  but to Hannah he gave a double portion, for he loved Hannah, but Yahweh had shut up her womb.

• 1 Samuel 1:6

  Her rival provoked her severely, to irritate her, because Yahweh had shut up her womb.

• 1 Samuel 1:7

  As he did so year by year, when she went up to Yahweh’s house. Her rival provoked her; therefore she wept, and didn’t eat.

• 1 Samuel 25:39

  When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed is Yahweh, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil. Yahweh has returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head.” David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to himself as wife.

• 1 Samuel 25:40

  When David’s servants had come to Abigail to Carmel, they spoke to her, saying, “David has sent us to you, to take you to him as wife.”

• 1 Samuel 25:41

  She arose, and bowed herself with her face to the earth, and said, “Behold, your servant is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.”

• 1 Samuel 25:42

  Abigail hurried, and arose, and rode on a donkey, with five ladies of hers who followed her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.

• 1 Samuel 25:43

  David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they both became his wives.

• 1 Samuel 25:44

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

• 2 Samuel 3:2

  Sons were born to David in Hebron. His firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess;

• 2 Samuel 3:3

  and his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;

• 2 Samuel 3:4

  and the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital;

• 2 Samuel 3:5

  and the sixth, Ithream, of Eglah, David’s wife. These were born to David in Hebron.

• 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 12:8

  I gave you your master’s house, and your master’s wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that would have been too little, I would have added to you many more such things.

• 1 Kings 11:1

  Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;

• 1 Kings 11:2

  of the nations concerning which Yahweh said to the children of Israel, “You shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon joined to these in love.

• 1 Kings 11:3

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

• 1 Kings 11:4

  When Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father was.

• 1 Kings 11:5

  For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

• 1 Kings 11:6

  Solomon did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and didn’t go fully after Yahweh, as David his father did.

• 1 Kings 11:7

  Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the mountain that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.

• 1 Kings 11:8

  So he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

• 2 Kings 24:15

  He carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, with the king’s mother, the king’s wives, his officers, and the chief men of the land. He carried them into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

• 1 Chronicles 2:8

  The son of Ethan: Azariah.

• 1 Chronicles 4:5

  Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.

• 1 Chronicles 14:3

  David took more wives at Jerusalem, and David became the father of more sons and daughters.

• 2 Chronicles 11:18

  Rehoboam took a wife for himself, Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David and of Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse.

• 2 Chronicles 11:19

  She bore him sons: Jeush, Shemariah, and Zaham.

• 2 Chronicles 11:20

  After her, he took Maacah the daughter of Absalom; and she bore him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith.

• 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 11:22

  Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah to be chief, the prince among his brothers; for he intended to make him king.

• 2 Chronicles 11:23

  He dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his sons throughout all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, to every fortified city. He gave them food in abundance and he sought many wives for them.

• 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.

• 2 Chronicles 21:9

  Then Jehoram went there with his captains and all his chariots with him. He rose up by night and struck the Edomites who surrounded him, along with the captains of the chariots.

• 2 Chronicles 21:10

  So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah to this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time from under his hand, because he had forsaken Yahweh, the God of his fathers.

• 2 Chronicles 21:11

  Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and made the inhabitants of Jerusalem play the prostitute, and led Judah astray.

• 2 Chronicles 21:12

  A letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, “Yahweh, the God of David your father, says, ‘Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,

• 2 Chronicles 21:13

  but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the prostitute like Ahab’s house did, and also have slain your brothers of your father’s house, who were better than yourself,

• 2 Chronicles 21:14

  behold, Yahweh will strike your people with a great plague, including your children, your wives, and all your posessions;

• 2 Chronicles 21:15

  and you will have great sickness with a disease of your bowels, until your bowels fall out by reason of the sickness, day by day.’”

• 2 Chronicles 21:16

  Yahweh stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians who are beside the Ethiopians;

• 2 Chronicles 24:3

  Jehoiada took for him two wives, and he became the father of sons and daughters.

• Job 27:15

  Those who remain of him shall be buried in death. His widows shall make no lamentation.

• Isaiah 4:1

  Seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing: only let us be called by your name. Take away our reproach.”

• 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.

• Hosea 3:1

  Yahweh said to me, “Go again, love a woman loved by another, and an adulteress, even as Yahweh loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins.”

• Hosea 3:2

  So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley.

• Malachi 2:14

  Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.

• Malachi 2:15

  Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

• Matthew 19:4

  He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,

• Matthew 19:5

  and 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?’

• Mark 10:2

  Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

• Mark 10:3

  He answered, “What did Moses command you?”

• Mark 10:4

  They said, “Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her.”

• Mark 10:5

  But Jesus said to them, “For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment.

• Mark 10:6

  But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.

• Mark 10:7

  For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,

• Mark 10:8

  and the two will become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.

• 1 Timothy 3:2

  The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

• 1 Timothy 3:12

  Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

• Titus 1:6

  if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.