Marriage According to the Bible

Marriage According to the Bible



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Man + Woman
"Traditional Marriage"
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-Wives are to submit to their husbands
Ephesians 5:22, Colossians 3:18, 1 Peter 3:1

-Inter-faith marriages are forbidden
Deuteronomy 7:3, Ezra 9:1-2

-Marriages are generally arranged

Isaac + Rebekah
Genesis 24:37-38

Jacob + Rachael, Jacob + Leah
Genesis 29:27

-Bride who cannot prove her virginity is to be stoned to death
Deuteronomy 22:13-21



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Man + Brother's Widow
Levirate Marriage
Deuteronomy 25:5-10
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-Onan and Tamar
Genesis 38:6-10

-Boaz and Ruth
Ruth 4



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Man + Wife + Concubine
A concubine is a female who has a lower status than her husband/her husband's other wives.
Functioned as a secondary wife, sex slave, and/or surrogate mother
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-Nahor
Genesis 11:29
Milkah, Wife

Genesis 22:24
Reumah, Concubine

-Abraham
Genesis 12:14
Sarah, Wife

Genesis 16:1-3
Hagar, Concubine

Genesis 25:1-4
Keturah, Concubine

-Jacob (Israel)
Genesis 29:27, 25
Leah, Rachael, Wives

Genesis 30:3, 9
Billhah, Zilpah, Concubines

-Eliphaz
Genesis 36:12
Timma, Concubine

-Gideon
Judges 8:30
"He had many wives", All Unnamed

Judges 9:18
Mother of Abimelech, Concubine

-David
2 Samuel 3:2
Ahnioam, Wife

2 Samuel 3:3-4
Maakah, Wife
Haggith, Wife
Abital, Wife
Eglah, Wife

2 Samuel 25:35
Abigail, Wife

2 Samuel 5:13
Multiple Unnamed Concubines

-Solomon
1 Kings 11:3
700 Wives
300 Concubines

-Caleb
1 Chronicles 2:46-48
Ephah, Concubine
Maakah, Concubine

-Manasseh
1 Chronicles 7:14
Unnamed Wife
Unnamed Aramean Concubine

-Rehaboam
2 Chronicles 11:21
18 Unnamed Wives
60 Unnamed Concubines

-Ahasuerus
Esther 1:9
Multiple Unnamed Concubines

-Xerxes
Esther 2:14
Multiple Unnamed Concubines

-Belshazzar
Daniel 5:2
Multiple Unnamed Concubines



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Man + Woman + Woman + Woman etc...
Polygamy
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-Lamech
Genesis 4:23
Adah
Zillah

-Jacob (Israel)
Genesis 29:27, 25
Leah
Rachael

-Esau
Genesis 36:2
Adhah
Aholibamah
Basemath

-Moses
Exodus 2:21
Zipporah

Numbers 12:1
An Unnamed Ethiopian Woman

-Gideon
Judges 8:30
>1, All Unnamed

-Elkanah
1 Samuel 1:2
Hannah
Peninnah

-David
2 Samuel 3:2-4
Ahinoam
Maakah
Haggith
Abital
Eglah

2 Samuel 25:35
Abigail

-Benhadad
1 Kings 20:3
>1, All Unnamed

-Solomon
1 Kings 11:3
700, All Unnamed

-Ahab
1 Kings 20:3
>1, All Unnamed

-Jeholachin
2 Kings 24:15
>1, All Unnamed

-Jerahmeel
1 Chronicles 2:26
Unnamed Wife, Atarah

-Ashur
1 Chronicles 4:5
Helah, Naarah

-Machir
1 Chronicles 7:15-16
Maachah, Zelophehad

-Shaharaim
1 Chronicles 8:8
Hushim, Baara

-Rehaboam
2 Chronicles 11:18-23
Mahalath, Abihail, Maachah, 15 Other Unnamed Wives

-Abijah
2 Chronnicles 13:21
14, All Unnamed

-Jehoram
2 Chronicles 21:14
>1, All Unnamed

-Joash
2 Chronicles 24:3
2, Both Unnamed

-Zedekiah
Jeremiah 38:23
>1, All Unnamed

-Belshazzar
Daniel 5:2
>1, All Unnamed



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Man Soldier + Female Prisoner of War
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-Numbers 31:9
The Israelites captured the Midianite women and children, all the herds, flocks, and goods, and took them as plunder.

-Deuteronomy 20:10, 122-14
When you march up to attack a city, make its people an offer of peace. If they refuse to make peace and they engage you in battle, lay siege to that city. When the Lord your God delivers the city into your hands, kill all the men in it. As for the women, the children, the livestock, and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves. And you may use the plunder the Lord your God gives you from your enemies.

-Judges 5:30
No doubt they are gathering and dividing the plunder--a girl or two for each man to rape!



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Male Slave + Female Slave
Exodus 21:2-4

If you buy a Hebrew slave, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free, without paying anything. If he comes unmarried, he is to go free alone; but if he has a wife when he comes, she is to go with him. If his slave master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her slave master, and only the man shall go free.
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Male + His Relative
Incest
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-Nahor and Milcah
Genesis 11:29
Uncle and Neice

-Abraham and Sarah
Genesis 20:12
Half Siblings

-Isaac and Rebekah
Genesis 24:15
1st Cousins Once Removed

-Amram and Jochebed
Exodus 6:20
Nephew and Aunt



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Man + Woman + Woman's Slave
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-Abraham
Genesis 12:4
Sarah, Wife

Genesis 16:1-3
Hagar, Sarah's Slave

Jacob (Israel)
Genesis 29:27
Leah, Wife

Genesis 30:9
Zilpah, Leah's Slave

Genesis 29:25
Rachael, Wife

Genesis 30:3
Bilhah, Rachael's Slave



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Rapist + His Victim
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Deuteronomy 22:28-29
If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, he shall pay her father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorcce her as long as he lives.