TOPICAL BIBLE
Concubinage
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Genesis 15:4Then the word of the LORD came to Abram, saying, “This one will not be your heir, but one who comes from your own body will be your heir.”Genesis 16:3So after he had lived in Canaan for ten years, his wife Sarai took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to Abram to be his wife.Genesis 21:9But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking her son,Genesis 21:10and she said to Abraham, “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac!”Genesis 21:11Now this matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son Ishmael.Genesis 21:12But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed about the boy and your maidservant. Listen to everything that Sarah tells you, for through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.Genesis 21:13But I will also make a nation of the slave woman’s son, because he is your offspring.”Genesis 21:14Early in the morning, Abraham got up, took bread and a skin of water, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her away with the boy. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.Genesis 22:23And Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight sons to Abraham’s brother Nahor.Genesis 22:24Moreover, Nahor’s concubine, whose name was Reumah, bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.Genesis 25:6But while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east.Genesis 30:4So Rachel gave Jacob her servant Bilhah as a wife, and he slept with her,Genesis 36:12Additionally, Timna, a concubine of Esau’s son Eliphaz, gave birth to Amalek. These are the grandsons of Esau’s wife Adah.Genesis 37:2This is the account of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flock with his brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and he brought their father a bad report about them.Exodus 21:7And if a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as the menservants do.Exodus 21:8If she is displeasing in the eyes of her master who had designated her for himself, he must allow her to be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, since he has broken faith with her.Exodus 21:9And if he chooses her for his son, he must deal with her as with a daughter.Exodus 21:10If he takes another wife, he must not reduce the food, clothing, or marital rights of his first wife.Exodus 21:11If, however, he does not provide her with these three things, she is free to go without monetary payment.Leviticus 19:20If a man lies carnally with a slave girl promised to another man but who has not been redeemed or given her freedom, there must be due punishment. But they are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed.Leviticus 19:21The man, however, must bring a ram to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting as his guilt offering to the LORD.Leviticus 19:22The priest shall make atonement on his behalf before the LORD with the ram of the guilt offering for the sin he has committed, and he will be forgiven the sin he has committed.Deuteronomy 21:10When you go to war against your enemies and the LORD your God delivers them into your hand and you take them captive,Deuteronomy 21:11if you see a beautiful woman among them, and you desire her and want to take her as your wife,Deuteronomy 21:12then you shall bring her into your house. She must shave her head, trim her nails,Deuteronomy 21:13and put aside the clothing of her captivity. After she has lived in your house a full month and mourned her father and mother, you may have relations with her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.Deuteronomy 21:14And if you are not pleased with her, you are to let her go wherever she wishes. But you must not sell her for money or treat her as a slave, since you have dishonored her.Judges 8:31His concubine, who dwelt in Shechem, also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.Judges 19:1Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a Levite who lived in the remote hill country of Ephraim took for himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.Judges 19:3her husband got up and went after her to speak kindly to her and bring her back, taking his servant and a pair of donkeys. So the girl brought him into her father’s house, and when her father saw him, he gladly welcomed him.Judges 19:4His father-in-law, the girl’s father, persuaded him to stay, so he remained with him three days, eating, drinking, and lodging there.Judges 19:5On the fourth day, they got up early in the morning and prepared to depart, but the girl’s father said to his son-in-law, “Refresh your heart with a morsel of bread, and then you can go.”2 Samuel 3:7Now Saul had a concubine named Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah. So Ish-bosheth questioned Abner, “Why did you sleep with my father’s concubine?”2 Samuel 5:13After he had arrived from Hebron, David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, and more sons and daughters were born to him.2 Samuel 15:16Then the king set out, and his entire household followed him. But he left behind ten concubines to take care of the palace.1 Kings 11:3He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines—and his wives turned his heart away.1 Chronicles 1:32The sons born to Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.1 Chronicles 2:46Caleb’s concubine Ephah was the mother of Haran, Moza, and Gazez. Haran was the father of Gazez.1 Chronicles 2:47The sons of Jahdai: Regem, Jotham, Geshan, Pelet, Ephah, and Shaaph.1 Chronicles 2:48Caleb’s concubine Maacah was the mother of Sheber and Tirhanah.1 Chronicles 7:14The descendants of Manasseh: Asriel through his Aramean concubine. She also gave birth to Machir the father of Gilead.2 Chronicles 11:21Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than all his wives and concubines. In all, he had eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and he was the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.2 Chronicles 13:21But Abijah grew strong, married fourteen wives, and became the father of twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.Daniel 5:2Under the influence of the wine, Belshazzar gave orders to bring in the gold and silver vessels that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king could drink from them, along with his nobles, his wives, and his concubines.
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