Polygamy
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Polygamy’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
Showing 1–24 of 46 verses grouped under this topic.
Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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He shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
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“ ‘You shall not take a wife in addition to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is still alive.
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Malachi 2:14 OT
Yet 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.
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Malachi 2:15 OT
Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
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Matthew 19:4 NT
He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,
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Matthew 19:5 NT
and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’
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Mark 10:2-8 NT
Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” He answered, “What did Moses command you?” They said, “Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her.” But Jesus…
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The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
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Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
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Titus 1:6 NT
if 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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I gave you your master’s house, and your master’s wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that would have been too little, I would have added to you many more such things.
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Exodus 21:10 OT
If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.
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1 Samuel 1:2 OT
He had two wives. The name of one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
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Jehoiada took for him two wives, and he became the father of sons and daughters.
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Job 27:15 OT
Those who remain of him will be buried in death. His widows will make no lamentation.
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Genesis 4:19 OT
Lamech took two wives: the name of the first one was Adah, and the name of the second one was Zillah.
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Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. Sarai said to Abram, “See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my servant. It may be that I will obtain children by…
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When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
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Genesis 28:9 OT
Esau went to Ishmael, and took, in addition to the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.
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He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him seven more years.
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Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.
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Judges 8:30 OT
Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body, for he had many wives.
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When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed is Yahweh, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil. Yahweh has returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head.” David…
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Sons were born to David in Hebron. His firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; and his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;…