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Polygamy
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1 Kings 11:6So Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD; unlike his father David, he did not follow the LORD completely.1 Kings 11:7At that time on a hill east of Jerusalem, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites.1 Kings 11:8He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.2 Kings 24:15Nebuchadnezzar carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, as well as the king’s mother, his wives, his officials, and the leading men of the land. He took them into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.1 Chronicles 2:8The son of Ethan: Azariah.1 Chronicles 4:5Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.1 Chronicles 14:3And David took more wives in Jerusalem and became the father of more sons and daughters.2 Chronicles 11:18And Rehoboam married Mahalath, who was the daughter of David’s son Jerimoth and of Abihail, the daughter of Jesse’s son Eliab.2 Chronicles 11:19She bore sons to him: Jeush, Shemariah, and Zaham.2 Chronicles 11:20After her, he married Maacah daughter of Absalom, and she bore to him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith.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 11:22Rehoboam appointed Abijah son of Maacah as chief prince among his brothers, intending to make him king.2 Chronicles 11:23Rehoboam also acted wisely by dispersing some of his sons throughout the districts of Judah and Benjamin, and to all the fortified cities. He gave them abundant provisions and sought many wives for them.2 Chronicles 13:21But Abijah grew strong, married fourteen wives, and became the father of twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.2 Chronicles 21:9So Jehoram crossed into Edom with his officers and all his chariots. When the Edomites surrounded him and his chariot commanders, he rose up and attacked by night.2 Chronicles 21:10So to this day Edom has been in rebellion against the hand of Judah. Likewise, Libnah rebelled against his hand at the same time, because Jehoram had forsaken the LORD, the God of his fathers.2 Chronicles 21:11Jehoram had also built high places on the hills of Judah; he had caused the people of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves and had led Judah astray.2 Chronicles 21:12Then a letter came to Jehoram from Elijah the prophet, which stated: “This is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘You have not walked in the ways of your father Jehoshaphat or of Asa king of Judah,2 Chronicles 21:13but you have walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and have caused Judah and the people of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves, just as the house of Ahab prostituted itself. You have also killed your brothers, your father’s family, who were better than you.2 Chronicles 21:14So behold, the LORD is about to strike your people, your sons, your wives, and all your possessions with a serious blow.2 Chronicles 21:15And day after day you yourself will suffer from a severe illness, a disease of your bowels, until it causes your bowels to come out.’”2 Chronicles 21:16Then the LORD stirred against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines and Arabs who lived near the Cushites.2 Chronicles 24:3Jehoiada took for him two wives, and he had sons and daughters.Job 27:15His survivors will be buried by the plague, and their widows will not weep for them.Isaiah 4:1In that day seven women will take hold of one man and say, “We will eat our own bread and provide our own clothes. Just let us be called by your name. Take away our disgrace!”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.Hosea 3:1Then the LORD said to me, “Go show love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an adulteress. Love her as the LORD loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love to offer raisin cakes to idols.”Hosea 3:2So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley.Malachi 2:14Yet you ask, “Why?” It is because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have broken faith, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.Malachi 2:15Has not the LORD made them one, having a portion of the Spirit? And why one? Because He seeks godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith with the wife of your youth.Matthew 19:4Jesus answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’Matthew 19:5and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?Mark 10:2Some Pharisees came to test Him. “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” they inquired.Mark 10:3“What did Moses command you?” He replied.Mark 10:4They answered, “Moses permitted a man to write his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away.”Mark 10:5But Jesus told them, “Moses wrote this commandment for you because of your hardness of heart.Mark 10:6However, from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’Mark 10:7‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,Mark 10:8and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh.1 Timothy 3:2An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,1 Timothy 3:12A deacon must be the husband of but one wife, a good manager of his children and of his own household.Titus 1:6An elder must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, having children who are believers and who are not open to accusation of indiscretion or insubordination.
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