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

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

See CONCUBINAGE

See MARRIAGE