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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

Domestic unhappiness

With Solomon—1Ki 11:4-8

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