Quotes about Polygamy
And Lamech married two women, one named Adah and the other Zillah.
- Genesis 4:19
Now Abraham had taken another wife, named Keturah,
- Genesis 25:1
So Rachel gave Jacob her servant Bilhah as a wife, and he slept with her,
- Genesis 30:4
When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.
- Genesis 30:9
If he takes another wife, he must not reduce the food, clothing, or marital rights of his first wife.
- Exodus 21:10
If a man has two wives, one beloved and the other unloved, and both bear him sons, but the unloved wife has the firstborn son,
- Deuteronomy 21:15
Gideon had seventy sons of his own, since he had many wives.
- Judges 8:30
He had two wives, one named Hannah and the other Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had none.
- 1 Samuel 1:2
David had also married Ahinoam of Jezreel. So she and Abigail were both his wives.
- 1 Samuel 25:43
After he had arrived from Hebron, David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, and more sons and daughters were born to him.
- 2 Samuel 5:13
He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines—and his wives turned his heart away.
- 1 Kings 11:3
He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
- 1 Kings 11:8