TOPICAL BIBLE
Polygamy
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1 Kings 11:6Solomon did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and didn’t go fully after Yahweh, as did David his father.1 Kings 11:7Then 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 11:8So he did for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed to their gods.2 Kings 24:15He carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon; and the king’s mother, and the king’s wives, and his officers, and the chief men of the land, carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.1 Chronicles 2:8The sons of Ethan: Azariah.1 Chronicles 4:5Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.1 Chronicles 14:3David took more wives at Jerusalem; and David became the father of more sons and daughters.2 Chronicles 11:18Rehoboam took him a wife, Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David, and of Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse;2 Chronicles 11:19and she bore him sons: Jeush, and Shemariah, and Zaham.2 Chronicles 11:20After her he took Maacah the daughter of Absalom; and she bore him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.2 Chronicles 11:21Rehoboam 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 11:22Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah to be chief, the prince among his brothers; for he intended to make him king.2 Chronicles 11:23He dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his sons throughout all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, to every fortified city: and he gave them food in abundance. He sought for them many wives.2 Chronicles 13:21But Abijah grew mighty, and took to himself fourteen wives, and became the father of twenty-two sons, and sixteen daughters.2 Chronicles 21:9Then Jehoram passed over with his captains, and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and struck the Edomites who surrounded him, along with the captains of the chariots.2 Chronicles 21:10So 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 21:11Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and made the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the prostitute, and led Judah astray.2 Chronicles 21:12A letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, “Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your father, ‘Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,2 Chronicles 21:13but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the prostitute, like the house of Ahab did, and also have slain your brothers of your father’s house, who were better than yourself:2 Chronicles 21:14behold, Yahweh will strike with a great plague your people, and your children, and your wives, and all your substance;2 Chronicles 21:15and you shall have great sickness by disease of your bowels, until your bowels fall out by reason of the sickness, day by day.’”2 Chronicles 21:16Yahweh stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians who are beside the Ethiopians:2 Chronicles 24:3Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he became the father of sons and daughters.Job 27:15Those who remain of him shall be buried in death. His widows shall make no lamentation.Isaiah 4:1Seven 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 5:2Belshazzar, 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 3:1Yahweh 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 3:2So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley.Malachi 2:14Yet 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 2:15Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.Matthew 19:4He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,Matthew 19:5and 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 10:2Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”Mark 10:3He answered, “What did Moses command you?”Mark 10:4They said, “Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her.”Mark 10:5But Jesus said to them, “For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment.Mark 10:6But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.Mark 10:7For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,Mark 10:8and the two will become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.1 Timothy 3:2The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;1 Timothy 3:12Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.Titus 1:6if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.
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