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