TOPICAL BIBLE
Concubinage
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Genesis 15:4And lo, the word of Jehovah is unto him, saying, ‘This one doth not heir thee; but he who cometh out from thy bowels, he doth heir thee;’Genesis 16:3And Sarai, Abram’s wife, taketh Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, at the end of the tenth year of Abram’s dwelling in the land of Canaan, and giveth her to Abram her husband, to him for a wife,Genesis 21:9and Sarah seeth the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she hath borne to Abraham, mocking,Genesis 21:10and she saith to Abraham, ‘Cast out this handmaid and her son; for the son of this handmaid hath no possession with my son—with Isaac.’Genesis 21:11And the thing is very wrong in the eyes of Abraham, for his son’s sake;Genesis 21:12and God saith unto Abraham, ‘Let it not be wrong in thine eyes because of the youth, and because of thy handmaid: all that Sarah saith unto thee—hearken to her voice, for in Isaac is a seed called to thee.Genesis 21:13As to the son of the handmaid also, for a nation I set him, because he is thy seed.’Genesis 21:14And Abraham riseth early in the morning, and taketh bread, and a bottle of water, and giveth unto Hagar (placing it on her shoulder), also the lad, and sendeth her out; and she goeth on, and goeth astray in the wilderness of Beer-Sheba;Genesis 22:23and Bethuel hath begotten Rebekah;’ these eight hath Milcah borne to Nahor, Abraham’s brother;Genesis 22:24and his concubine, whose name is Reumah, she also hath borne Tebah, and Gaham, and Tahash, and Maachah.Genesis 25:6and to the sons of the concubines whom Abraham hath, Abraham hath given gifts, and sendeth them away from Isaac his son (in his being yet alive) eastward, unto the east country.Genesis 30:4and she giveth to him Bilhah her maid-servant for a wife, and Jacob goeth in unto her;Genesis 36:12and Timnath hath been concubine to Eliphaz son of Esau, and she beareth to Eliphaz, Amalek; these are sons of Adah wife of Esau.Genesis 37:2These are births of Jacob: Joseph, a son of seventeen years, hath been enjoying himself with his brethren among the flock, (and he is a youth,) with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives, and Joseph bringeth in an account of their evil unto their father.Exodus 21:7‘And when a man selleth his daughter for a handmaid, she doth not go out according to the going out of the men-servants;Exodus 21:8if evil in the eyes of her lord, so that he hath not betrothed her, then he hath let her be ransomed; to a strange people he hath not power to sell her, in his dealing treacherously with her.Exodus 21:9‘And if to his son he betroth her, according to the right of daughters he doth to her.Exodus 21:10If another woman he take for him, her food, her covering, and her habitation, he doth not withdraw;Exodus 21:11and if these three he do not to her, then she hath gone out for nought, without money.Leviticus 19:20And when a man lieth with a woman with seed of copulation, and she a maid-servant, betrothed to a man, and not really ransomed, or freedom hath not been given to her, an investigation there is; they are not put to death, for she is not free.Leviticus 19:21And he hath brought in his guilt-offering to Jehovah, unto the opening of the tent of meeting, a ram for a guilt-offering,Leviticus 19:22and the priest hath made atonement for him with the ram of the guilt-offering before Jehovah, for his sin which he hath sinned, and it hath been forgiven him because of his sin which he hath sinned.Deuteronomy 21:10‘When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and Jehovah thy God hath given them into thy hand, and thou hast taken captive its captivity,Deuteronomy 21:11and hast seen in the captivity a woman of fair form, and hast delighted in her, and hast taken to thee for a wife,Deuteronomy 21:12then thou hast brought her in unto the midst of thy household, and she hath shaved her head, and prepared her nails,Deuteronomy 21:13and turned aside the raiment of her captivity from off her, and hath dwelt in thy house, and bewailed her father and her mother a month of days, and afterwards thou dost go in unto her and hast married her, and she hath been to thee for a wife:Deuteronomy 21:14‘And it hath been—if thou hast not delighted in her, that thou hast sent her away at her desire, and thou dost not at all sell her for money; thou dost not tyrannize over her, because that thou hast humbled her.Judges 8:31and his concubine, who is in Shechem, hath born to him—even she—a son, and he appointeth his name Abimelech.Judges 19:1And it cometh to pass, in those days, when there is no king in Israel, that there is a man a Levite, a sojourner in the sides of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he taketh to him a wife, a concubine, out of Beth-Lehem-Judah;Judges 19:3And her husband riseth and goeth after her, to speak unto her heart, to bring her back, and his young man is with him, and a couple of asses; and she bringeth him into the house of her father, and the father of the young woman seeth him, and rejoiceth to meet him.Judges 19:4And keep hold on him doth his father-in-law, father of the young woman, and he abideth with him three days, and they eat and drink, and lodge there.Judges 19:5And it cometh to pass, on the fourth day, that they rise early in the morning, and he riseth to go, and the father of the young woman saith unto his son-in-law, ‘Support thy heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward ye go on.’2 Samuel 3:7and Saul hath a concubine, and her name is Rizpah daughter of Aiah, and Ish-Bosheth saith unto Abner, ‘Wherefore hast thou gone in unto the concubine of my father?’2 Samuel 5:13And David taketh again concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after his coming from Hebron, and there are born again to David sons and daughters.2 Samuel 15:16And the king goeth out, and all his household at his feet, and the king leaveth ten women—concubines—to keep the house.1 Kings 11:3And he hath women, princesses, seven hundred, and concubines three hundred; and his wives turn aside his heart.1 Chronicles 1:32And sons of Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: she bare Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. And sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.1 Chronicles 2:46And Ephah concubine of Caleb bare Haran, and Moza, and Gazez; and Haran begat Gazez.1 Chronicles 2:47And sons of Jahdai: Regem, and Jotham, and Geshem, and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph.1 Chronicles 2:48The concubine of Caleb, Maachah, bare Sheber and Tirhanah;1 Chronicles 7:14Sons of Manasseh: Ashriel, whom Jaladah his Aramaean concubine bare, with Machir father of Gilead.2 Chronicles 11:21And Rehoboam loveth Maachah daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines—for eighteen wives he hath taken, and sixty concubines—and he begetteth twenty and eight sons, and sixty daughters.2 Chronicles 13:21And Abijah strengtheneth himself, and taketh to him fourteen wives, and begetteth twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters,Daniel 5:2Belshazzar hath said—while tasting the wine—to bring in the vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken from the temple that is in Jerusalem, that drink with them may the king, and his great men, his wives, and his concubines.
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