What does the Bible say about polygamy?

22 verses about polygamy, ranked by the votes of OpenBible.info readers, with the King James text.

12 booksMost in Genesis

Bible verses about polygamy

Exodus 21:10 — If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish. 3 votes
Genesis 2:24 — Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. 2 votes
Genesis 4:19 — And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah. 2 votes
Genesis 30:4 — And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her. 2 votes
Genesis 30:9 — When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife. 2 votes
Deuteronomy 17:17 — Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold. 2 votes
Deuteronomy 21:15 — If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated: 2 votes
Deuteronomy 25:5 — If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband’s brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband’s brother unto her. 2 votes
Judges 8:30 — And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives. 2 votes
1 Samuel 1:1 — Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim, of mount Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite: 2 votes
2 Samuel 5:13 — And David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron: and there were yet sons and daughters born to David. 2 votes
2 Samuel 12:8 — And I gave thee thy master’s house, and thy master’s wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things. 2 votes
1 Kings 11:1 — But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites; 2 votes
1 Chronicles 3:1 — Now these were the sons of David, which were born unto him in Hebron; the firstborn Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; the second Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelitess: 2 votes
1 Chronicles 4:5 — And Ashur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah. 2 votes
2 Chronicles 11:21 — And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore daughters.) 2 votes
2 Chronicles 13:21 — But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters. 2 votes
2 Chronicles 24:1 — Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Zibiah of Beer-sheba. 2 votes
2 Chronicles 24:3 — And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons and daughters. 2 votes
Isaiah 4:1 — And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach. 2 votes
Matthew 25:1 — Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. 2 votes
1 Timothy 3:2 — A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; 2 votes

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Genesis (4), 2 Chronicles (4), Deuteronomy (3), 2 Samuel (2), 1 Chronicles (2), Exodus (1), Judges (1), 1 Samuel (1), 1 Kings (1), Isaiah (1), Matthew (1), 1 Timothy (1)

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