Polygamy

• ForbiddenDeu 17:17Lev 18:18Mal 2:14Mal 2:15Mat 19:4Mat 19:5Mrk 10:2–81Ti 3:21Ti 3:12Tit 1:6
• Authorized2Sa 12:8
• ToleratedExo 21:101Sa 1:22Ch 24:3
• Practiced byJob 27:15
• LamechGen 4:19
• AbrahamGen 16
• EsauGen 26:34Gen 28:9
• JacobGen 29:30
• Ashur1Ch 4:5
• GideonJdg 8:30
• Elkanah1Sa 1:2
• David1Sa 25:39–442Sa 3:2–52Sa 5:131Ch 14:3
• Solomon1Ki 11:1–8
• Rehoboam2Ch 11:18–23
• Abijah2Ch 13:21
• Jehoram2Ch 21:14
• Joash2Ch 24:3
• Ahab2Ki 10
• Jehoiachin2Ki 24:15
• BelshazzarDan 5:2
• HoseaHos 3:1Hos 3:2
• Mosaic law respecting the firstborn inDeu 21:15–17
• Sought by womenIsa 4:1
• The evil effects of
• Husband' s favoritism inDeu 21:15–17
• Jacob' sGen 29:30Gen 30:15
• Elkanah' s1Sa 1:5
• Rehoboam' s2Ch 11:21
• Domestic unhappiness
• In Abraham' s familyGen 16Gen 21:9–16
• In Jacob' s familyGen 29:30–34Gen 30:1–23
• In Elkanah' s family1Sa 1:4–7
• With Solomon1Ki 11:4–8

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