David’s two wives had been taken captive – Ahinoam the Jezreelite and Abigail the Carmelite, Nabal’s widow.

<p class="poetry">You wrongly evict widows<n id="1" /> among my people from their cherished homes.p> <p class="poetry">You defraud their children<n id="2" /> of their prized inheritance.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Lamech said to his wives,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Adah and Zillah! Listen to me!p> <p class="poetry">You wives of Lamech, hear my words!p> <p class="poetry">I have killed a man for wounding me,p> <p class="poetry">a young man<n id="1" /> for hurting me.p>

<p class="bodytext">On that very day Noah entered the ark, accompanied by his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, along with his wife and his sons&#8217; three wives.<n id="1" />

Let me take my wives and my children whom I have acquired by working for you.<n id="1" /> Then I&#8217;ll depart,<n id="2" /> because you know how hard I&#8217;ve worked for you.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">All the direct descendants of Jacob who went to Egypt with him were sixty-six in number. (This number does not include the wives of Jacob&#8217;s sons.)<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">The Israelites took the women of Midian captives along with their little ones, and took all their herds, all their flocks, and all their goods as plunder.

<p class="bodytext">This is the account of Jacob.p> <p class="bodytext">Joseph, his seventeen-year-old son,<n id="1" /> was taking care of<n id="2" /> the flocks with his brothers. Now he was a youngster<n id="3" /> working with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father&#8217;s wives.<n id="4" /> Joseph brought back a bad report about them<n id="5" /> to their father.p>

I gave you your master&#8217;s house, and put your master&#8217;s wives into your arms.<n id="1" /> I also gave you the house of Israel and Judah. And if all that somehow seems insignificant, I would have given you so much more as well!

He deported Jehoiachin from Jerusalem to Babylon, along with the king&#8217;s mother and wives, his eunuchs, and the high-ranking officials of the land.<n id="1" />

This will happen to them because they have done what is shameful<n id="1" /> in Israel. They have committed adultery with their neighbors&#8217; wives and have spoken lies while claiming my authority.<n id="2" /> They have spoken words that I did not command them to speak. I know what they have done. I have been a witness to it,&#8217; says the <sc>Lordsc>.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>