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According to the biblical account, Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines. The wives were described as foreign princesses, including Pharaoh's daughter and women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, Sidon and of the Hittites.
Despite these nuances to the biblical perspective on polygamy, many important figures had more than one wife, such as Esau (Gen 26:34; 28:6-9), Jacob (Gen 29:15-28), Elkanah (1 Samuel 1:1-8), David (1 Samuel 25:39-44; 2 Samuel 3:2-5; 5:13-16), and Solomon (1 Kings 11:1-3).
8 Sarah had been married seven times, but the evil demon, Asmodeus, killed each husband before the marriage could be consummated. The servant woman said to Sarah, "You husband killer! Look at you! You've already had seven husbands, but not one of them lived long enough to give you a son.
Miriam and Aaron were jealous because Moses had two wives and because more of his attention would have been taken by the newly married woman. It is not unusual in an African setting for relatives and friends to be jealous when husbands are too occupied with two or three wives.
"Christian tradition has long held that Jesus was not married, even though no reliable historical evidence exists to support that claim," King said in a press release.
Abijah married fourteen wives, and had 22 sons and 16 daughters.
Article. Solomon, third king of Israel (reigned c. 968–928 B.C.E.), is said to have had a harem that included 700 wives and 300 concubines (1 Kgs 11:3). His wives were to have included the daughter of Pharaoh, as well as women of Moabite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite origins (1 Kgs 7:8; 11:1).
Modern understandings of John 4 often depict the Samaritan woman as an adulteress. One commentary refers to her as “this immoral woman of Samaria.”1 The author notes that the woman had been married to and divorced from five husbands.
There was no other woman made for Adam but Eve, which is why she is called the “mother of all living” things (Genesis 3:20). Therefore, we have absolute proof there never was any Lilith, nor does she exist today.
Though the Bible does not specifically forbid having multiple wives or husbands, it is not God's original plan. The Lord's expectation for marriage is that it be held as a sacred covenant between one man and one woman.
God had a wife, Asherah, whom the Book of Kings suggests was worshipped alongside Yahweh in his temple in Israel, according to an Oxford scholar. In 1967, Raphael Patai was the first historian to mention that the ancient Israelites worshipped both Yahweh and Asherah.
He said his real name was Nikolai Peruskov while a prosecutor contended that his true identity was Fred Jipp, born April 3, 1936 in New York City. Vigliotto married 104 or 105 women between 1949 and 1981. None of his wives knew about each other and they barely knew him as well.
Lilith was the first wife of Adam according to Jewish folklore. This fills a gap in the two accounts of creation in Genesis.
Zion-a (76), believed to head the world's largest family, with 38 wives and 89 children. Mizoram and his village at Baktawng Tlangnuam has become a major tourist attraction in the state because of the family.
And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her. When the seven years were fulfilled at last, Jacob spent his wedding night only to discover at dawn that it wasn't Rachel, but her elder sister Leah whom Laban had delivered to Jacob's tent.
Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come back." The woman answered him, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You are right in saying, 'I have no husband'; for you have had five husbands, and the man you are now living with is not your husband.
According to one view, Abraham remarried after the death of Sarah and had a total of three wives: Sarah, Hagar, and Keturah. Another tradition identifies Keturah with Hagar, and thus Abraham married only twice. Each of these views finds Scriptural support for its position: the three-wife opinion relies on Gen.
According to the Qur'an, God forbade anyone to marry the wives of Muhammad, because of their respect and honour, after he died.
Abraham's brother Nahor married his niece Milcah, the daughter of his other brother Haran.
Polygamy exists in three specific forms: Polygyny, where a man has multiple simultaneous wives. Polyandry, where a woman has multiple simultaneous husbands. Group marriage, where the family unit consists of multiple husbands and multiple wives of legal age.
Rehoboam had 18 wives and 60 concubines. They bore him 28 sons and 60 daughters. His wives included Mahalath, the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David, and Abihail, the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse. His sons with Mahalath were Jeush, Shemariah, and Zaham.
For he [i.e., Manasseh] who divorced and expelled [his wife],” Yahweh, the God of Israel, has said, “has covered his own garment with violence,” Yahweh of Ranks has said. “Guard your spirit and do not betray.” (Mal 2:13–16). Manasseh's divorce was a political act that had ramifications.
Henry VIII is best known for his six wives, and several mistresses he kept on the side. The monarch's desperate quest for political unification and a healthy male heir drove him to annul two marriages and have two wives beheaded.