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Polygamy

 

POLYGAMY ;

Forbidden - De 17:17; Le 18:18; Mal 2:14,15; Mt 19:4,5; Mr 10:2-8; 1Ti 3:2,12; Tit 1:6

Authorized - 2Sa 12:8

Tolerated - Ex 21:10; 1Sa 1:2; 2Ch 24:3

Practiced by - Job 27:15

Lamech - Ge 4:19

Abraham - Ge 16

Esau - Ge 26:34; 28:9

Jacob - Ge 29:30

Ashur - 1Ch 4:5

Gideon - Jud 8:30

Elkanah - 1Sa 1:2

David - 1Sa 25:39-44; 2Sa 3:2-5; 5:13; 1Ch 14:3

Solomon - 1Ki 11:1-8

Rehoboam - 2Ch 11:18-23

Abijah - 2Ch 13:21

Jehoram - 2Ch 21:14

Joash - 2Ch 24:3

Ahab - 2Ki 10

Jehoiachin - 2Ki 24:15

Belshazzar - Da 5:2

See - 1Ch 2:8

Hosea - Ho 3:1,2

Mosaic law respecting the firstborn in - De 21:15-17

Sought by women - Isa 4:1

The evil effects of

• Husband's favoritism in
- De 21:15-17
• Jacob's
- Ge 29:30; 30:15
• Elkanah's
- 1Sa 1:5
• Rehoboam's
- 2Ch 11:21

Domestic unhappiness

• In Abraham's family
- Ge 16; 21:9-16
• In Jacob's family
- Ge 29:30-34; 30:1-23
• In Elkanah's family
- 1Sa 1:4-7

With Solomon - 1Ki 11:4-8

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