Concubinage
24 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
18 sections
- Laws Concerning
- Laws Concerning: A Levite
- Laws Concerning: Abijah
- Laws Concerning: Abraham
- Laws Concerning: Belshazzar
- Laws Concerning: Caleb
- Laws Concerning: Called Wives
- Laws Concerning: Children of, not Heirs
- Laws Concerning: Concubines Might be Dismissed
- Laws Concerning: David
- Laws Concerning: Eliphaz
- Laws Concerning: Gideon
- Laws Concerning: Jacob
- Laws Concerning: Manasseh
- Laws Concerning: Nahor
- Laws Concerning: Rehoboam
- Laws Concerning: Saul
- Laws Concerning: Solomon
Laws Concerning
- Exodus 21:7–11 And if a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as the menservants do. …
- Leviticus 19:20–22 If a man lies carnally with a slave girl promised to another man but who has not been redeemed or given her freedom, there must be due punishment. But they are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed. …
- Deuteronomy 21:10–14 When you go to war against your enemies and the LORD your God delivers them into your hand and you take them captive, …
Laws Concerning: A Levite
- Judges 19:1 Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a Levite who lived in the remote hill country of Ephraim took for himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.
Laws Concerning: Abijah
- 2 Chronicles 13:21 But Abijah grew strong, married fourteen wives, and became the father of twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.
Laws Concerning: Abraham
- Genesis 16:3 So after he had lived in Canaan for ten years, his wife Sarai took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to Abram to be his wife.
- Genesis 25:6 But while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east.
- 1 Chronicles 1:32 The sons born to Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.
Laws Concerning: Belshazzar
- Daniel 5:2 Under 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, …
Laws Concerning: Caleb
- 1 Chronicles 2:46–48 Caleb’s concubine Ephah was the mother of Haran, Moza, and Gazez. Haran was the father of Gazez. …
Laws Concerning: Called Wives
- Genesis 37:2 This is the account of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flock with his brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and he brought their father a bad report about them.
- Judges 19:3–5 her husband got up and went after her to speak kindly to her and bring her back, taking his servant and a pair of donkeys. So the girl brought him into her father’s house, and when her father saw him, he gladly welcomed him. …
Laws Concerning: Children of, not Heirs
- Genesis 15:4 Then the word of the LORD came to Abram, saying, “This one will not be your heir, but one who comes from your own body will be your heir.”
- Genesis 21:10 and she said to Abraham, “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac!”
Laws Concerning: Concubines Might be Dismissed
- Genesis 21:9–14 But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking her son, …
Laws Concerning: David
- 2 Samuel 5:13 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 15:16 Then the king set out, and his entire household followed him. But he left behind ten concubines to take care of the palace.
Laws Concerning: Eliphaz
- Genesis 36:12 Additionally, Timna, a concubine of Esau’s son Eliphaz, gave birth to Amalek. These are the grandsons of Esau’s wife Adah.
Laws Concerning: Gideon
- Judges 8:31 His concubine, who dwelt in Shechem, also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.
Laws Concerning: Jacob
- Genesis 30:4 So Rachel gave Jacob her servant Bilhah as a wife, and he slept with her,
Laws Concerning: Manasseh
- 1 Chronicles 7:14 The descendants of Manasseh: Asriel through his Aramean concubine. She also gave birth to Machir the father of Gilead.
Laws Concerning: Nahor
- Genesis 22:23–24 And Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight sons to Abraham’s brother Nahor. …
Laws Concerning: Rehoboam
- 2 Chronicles 11:21 Rehoboam 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.
Laws Concerning: Saul
- 2 Samuel 3:7 Now Saul had a concubine named Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah. So Ish-bosheth questioned Abner, “Why did you sleep with my father’s concubine?”
Laws Concerning: Solomon
- 1 Kings 11:3 He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines — and his wives turned his heart away.
Related topics
Cruelty of Sarah to HagarDivorce of Captives, Regulated by LawDivorce of Servants, Regulated by Law
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.