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Polygamy
34 lines · 51 passages
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Forbidden
Deut 17:17; Lev 18:18; Mal 2:14, 15; Matt 19:4, 5; Mark 10:2–8; 1 Tim 3:2, 12; Titus 1:6
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Authorized
2 Sam 12:8
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Tolerated
Ex 21:10; 1 Sam 1:2; 2 Chr 24:3
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Practiced by
Job 27:15
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Lamech
Gen 4:19
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Abraham
Gen 16
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Esau
Gen 26:34; 28:9
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Jacob
Gen 29:30
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Ashur
1 Chr 4:5
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Gideon
Judg 8:30
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Elkanah
1 Sam 1:2
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David
1 Sam 25:39–44; 2 Sam 3:2–5; 5:13; 1 Chr 14:3
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Solomon
1 Kgs 11:1–8
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Rehoboam
2 Chr 11:18–23
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Abijah
2 Chr 13:21
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Jehoram
2 Chr 21:14
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Joash
2 Chr 24:3
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Ahab
2 Kgs 10
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Jehoiachin
2 Kgs 24:15
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Belshazzar
Dan 5:2
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See
1 Chr 2:8
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Hosea
Hos 3:1, 2
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Mosaic law respecting the firstborn in
Deut 21:15–17
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Sought by women
Isa 4:1
- The evil effects of
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Husband’s favoritism in
Deut 21:15–17
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Jacob’s
Gen 29:30; 30:15
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Elkanah’s
1 Sam 1:5
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Rehoboam’s
2 Chr 11:21
- Domestic unhappiness
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In Abraham’s family
Gen 16; 21:9–16
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In Jacob’s family
Gen 29:30–34; 30:1–23
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In Elkanah’s family
1 Sam 1:4–7
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With Solomon
1 Kgs 11:4–8
- See Concubinage
- See Marriage
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.