Bastard
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Bastard in the Bible Dictionary
- (An illegitimate child)
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Excluded from the congregation
Deut 23:2
2 A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.
Deuteronomy 23:2 - Instances of
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Ishmael
Gen 16:3, 15; Gal 4:22
3 And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.
Genesis 16:315 And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son's name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael.
Genesis 16:1522 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
Galatians 4:22 -
Moab and Ammon
Gen 19:36, 37
36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.
Genesis 19:3637 And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.
Genesis 19:37 -
Jephthah
Judg 11:1
1 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah.
Judges 11:1 -
David’s child by Bath-sheba
2 Sam 11:2–5
2 And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon. 3 And David sent and enquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite? 4 And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house. 5 And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am with child.
2 Samuel 11:2 -
Figurative
Zech 9:6; Heb 12:8
6 And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
Zechariah 9:68 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
Hebrews 12:8
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
