Nave’s Topical Bible
Polygamy
47 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- Forbidden
Deuteronomy 17:17; Leviticus 18:18; Malachi 2:14-15; Matthew 19:4-5; Mark 10:2-8; 1 Timothy 3:2,12; Titus 1:6
- Authorized
- Tolerated
- Practiced by
- Lamech
- Abraham
- Esau
- Jacob
- Ashur
- Gideon
- Elkanah
- David
1 Samuel 25:39-44; 2 Samuel 3:2-5; 2 Samuel 5:13; 1 Chronicles 14:3
- Solomon
- Rehoboam
- Abijah
- Jehoram
- Joash
- Ahab
- Jehoiachin
- Belshazzar
- See
- Hosea
- Mosaic law respecting the firstborn in
- Sought by women
- The evil effects of
- Husband's favoritism in
- Jacob's
- Elkanah's
- Rehoboam's
- Domestic unhappiness
- In Abraham's family
- In Jacob's family
- In Elkanah's family
- With Solomon
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Bible verses about “Polygamy”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Deuteronomy 17:17Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
- Leviticus 18:18Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.
- Malachi 2:14Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
- Malachi 2:15And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
- Matthew 19:4And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
- Matthew 19:5And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
- Mark 10:2And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.
- Mark 10:3And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you?
- Mark 10:4And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.
- Mark 10:5And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.
- Mark 10:6But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
- Mark 10:7For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
- Mark 10:8And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
- 1 Timothy 3:2A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
- 1 Timothy 3:12Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
- Titus 1:6If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
- 2 Samuel 12:8And I gave thee thy master’s house, and thy master’s wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things.
- Exodus 21:10If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
- 1 Samuel 1:2And he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
- 2 Chronicles 24:3And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons and daughters.
- Job 27:15Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.
- Genesis 4:19And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
- Genesis 26:34And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
- Genesis 28:9Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife.
- Genesis 29:30And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
- 1 Chronicles 4:5And Ashur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.
- Judges 8:30And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives.
- 1 Samuel 25:39And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the Lord, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for the Lord hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife.
- 1 Samuel 25:40And when the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel, they spake unto her, saying, David sent us unto thee, to take thee to him to wife.
- 1 Samuel 25:41And she arose, and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and said, Behold, let thine handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.
- 1 Samuel 25:42And Abigail hasted, and arose, and rode upon an ass, with five damsels of hers that went after her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.
- 1 Samuel 25:43David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives.
- 1 Samuel 25:44But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David’s wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which was of Gallim.
- 2 Samuel 3:2And unto David were sons born in Hebron: and his firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess;
- 2 Samuel 3:3And 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;
- 2 Samuel 3:4And the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital;
- 2 Samuel 3:5And the sixth, Ithream, by Eglah David’s wife. These were born to David in Hebron.
- 2 Samuel 5:13And David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron: and there were yet sons and daughters born to David.
- 1 Chronicles 14:3And David took more wives at Jerusalem: and David begat more sons and daughters.
- 1 Kings 11:1But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;