71 Bible Verses about Polygamy
Want to know what the Bible says about Polygamy? Here are 71 Bible verses about Polygamy from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.
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2 Chronicles 24:3 NIV
Jehoiada chose two wives for him, and he had sons and daughters.
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2 Samuel 5:13 NIV
After he left Hebron, David took more concubines and wives in Jerusalem, and more sons and daughters were born to him.
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1 Chronicles 4:5 NIV
Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.
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Genesis 30:9 NIV
When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she took her servant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
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Numbers 12:1 NIV
Miriam and Aaron began to talk against Moses because of his Cushite wife, for he had married a Cushite.
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Genesis 30:4 NIV
So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife. Jacob slept with her,
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1 Kings 11:1-4 NIV
11 King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh’s daughter—Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites. 2 They were from nations about which the Lord had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, because they will surely turn your hearts after their gods.” Nevertheless, Solomon held fast to them in love. 3 He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines, and his wives led him astray. 4 As Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully devoted to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father had been.
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1 Samuel 1:1-2 NIV
1 There was a certain man from Ramathaim, a Zuphite from the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite. 2 He had two wives; one was called Hannah and the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had none.
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Titus 1:5-8 NIV
5 The reason I left you in Crete was that you might put in order what was left unfinished and appoint elders in every town, as I directed you. 6 An elder must be blameless, faithful to his wife, a man whose children believe and are not open to the charge of being wild and disobedient. 7 Since an overseer manages God’s household, he must be blameless—not overbearing, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not pursuing dishonest gain. 8 Rather, he must be hospitable, one who loves what is good, who is self-controlled, upright, holy and disciplined.
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Matthew 19:4-6 NIV
4 “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’ ? 6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
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