<p class="bodytext">All these had taken foreign wives, and some of them also had children by these women.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">They raped<n id="1" /> women in Zion,p> <p class="poetry">virgins in the towns of Judah.p>

<p class="bodytext">Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.

Jehoiada chose two wives for him who gave him sons and daughters.p>

<p class="poetry">Every wise woman<n id="1" /> builds<n id="2" /> her household,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">but a foolish woman tears it down with her own hands.p>

&#8220;Son of man, there were two women who were daughters of the same mother.

<p class="bodytext">Lamech took two wives for himself; the name of the first was Adah, and the name of the second was Zillah.

Gideon fathered seventy sons through his many wives.<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.

<p class="bodytext">In Jerusalem<n id="1" /> David married<n id="2" /> more wives and fathered more sons and daughters.

and on the first day of the first month they finished considering all the men who had married foreign wives.p>

<p class="bodytext">Also in those days I saw the men of Judah who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

Queen Vashti<n id="1" /> also gave a banquet for the women in King Ahasuerus&#8217; royal palace.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">You complacent<n id="1" /> women,p> <p class="poetry">get up and listen to me!p> <p class="poetry">You carefree<n id="2" /> daughters,p> <p class="poetry">pay attention to what I say!p>

<p class="lamhebrew">&#1497; (<i>Yodi>)p> <p class="poetry">The hands of tenderhearted women<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">cooked their own children,p> <p class="poetry">who became their food,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">when my people<n id="3" /> were destroyed.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Your warriors will be like women in your midst;p> <p class="poetry">the gates of your land will be wide open<n id="1" /> to your enemies;p> <p class="poetry">fire will consume<n id="2" /> the bars of your gates.<n id="3" />p>

Marry and have sons and daughters. Find wives for your sons and allow your daughters get married so that they too can have sons and daughters. Grow in number; do not dwindle away.

the sons of God<n id="1" /> saw that the daughters of humankind were beautiful. Thus they took wives for themselves from any they chose.

If you mistreat my daughters or if you take wives besides my daughters, although no one else is with us, realize<n id="1" /> that God is witness to your actions.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

When I break off your supply of bread,<n id="1" /> ten women will bake your bread in one oven; they will ration your bread by weight,<n id="2" /> and you will eat and not be satisfied.p>