Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, | and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death. Prov. xi, 16. A gracious woman retaineth honour; and strong men retain riches. Prov. xviii, 22. Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD. Prov. xxxi. 10-12, 28--31. Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good, and not evil, all the days of her life. Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her. Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all. Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates. 1 Kings xxi, 25. But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up. Prov. xix, 13. A foolish son is the calamity of his father; and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping. he said, Let Asher be blessed with children; let him be acceptable to his bretliren, and let him dip his foot in oil. Job v, 24. And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace, and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin. Job xix, 17. My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated for the children's sake of mine own body. Ruth iii, 1. Then Naomi, her mother-in-law, said unto her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee? 1 Sam. 1, 4. And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninuah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions. Ps. cxviii, 15. The voice of reJoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD doeth val iantly. Gen. xxix, 21. And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her. Gen. xxx, 15, 16. And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast taken my husband? and Prov. xxi, 9, 19. It is better to wouldest thou take away my dwell in a corner of the house-top, son's mandrakes also? And Rathan with a brawling woman in a chel said, Therefore he shall lie wide house. It is better to dwell with thee to-night for thy son's in the wilderness, than with a mandrakes, And Jacob came contentious and an angry wo-out of the field in the evening, man. Prov. xxv, 24. It is better to dwell in a corner of the house-top. than with a brawling woman, and in a wide house. Prov. xxvii, 15, 16. A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike. Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which bewrayeth itself. and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night. Gen. xxxviii, 1, 2. And it came to pass at that time, that Judah and turned in to a certain Adul went down from his brethren, lamite, whose name was Hirah. And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose name was Shuah; and he took her, Deut. xxxiii, 24. And of Asher, and went in unto her. SUNDRIES. Exod. xix, 15. And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives. Lev. xv, 18. The woman also with whom man shall lie with seed of copulation, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the even. 1 Sam. i, 19. And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before the LORD, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD remembered her. 1 Sam. xxi, 4, 5. And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under mine hand; but there is hallowed bread, if the young men have kept them And selves at least from women. David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and the bread is in a manner common, yea, though it were sanctified this day in the vessel. 2 Sam. xi, 9-11. But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house. And when they had told David, saying, Uriah went not down unto his house, David said unto Uriah, Camest thou not from thy journey? why then didst thou not go down unto thine house? And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go iuto mine house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing. 2 Sam. xii, 24. And David comforted Batli-sheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon; and the LORD loved him. Esther iv, 11. All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days. 1 Cor. vii, 3-6. Let the husband render unto the wife due benevo lence, and likewise also the wire unto the husband. The wife bath not power of her own body, but the husband; and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. Defrand ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency. But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment. DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE. by the law to her husband so long 1 Cor. vii, 39. The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord. WIDOWS. Gen. xxxviii, 12, 19. And in procoss of time the daughter of Shuah Judah's wife died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheep-shearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite. And she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood. Ruth 1, 3, 5. And Elimelech, Naomi's husband, died; and she was left, and her two sons. And Mahlon and Chillon died also both of them; and the woman was left of her two sons and her husband. Ruth il, 11, 12. And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been shewed me all that thou hast done unto thy motherin-law since the death of thine husband; and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou The knewest not heretofore. 1 Kings xvii,9. Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee. Pa, Ixxviii, 64. Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation. therless and the widow. Jer. xv, 8, 9. Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them, against the mother of the and went with them. Acts ix, 39. Then Peter aroso young men, a spoiler at noonWhen he day: I have caused him to fall the upper chamber: and all the was come, they brought him into upon it suddenly, and terrors up-widows stood by him weeping, on the city. She that hath borne and shewing the coats and garseven languisheth: she hath given ments which Dorcas made while up the ghost; her sun is gone she was with them. down while it was yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD. Lam. v, 3. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. is a widow indeed, and desolate, 1 Tim. v, 5, 9, 10. Now she that trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day. Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man, Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work. WIDOWS SPECIALLY OBJECTS OF Jobxxix, 13. The blessing of him Job xxii, 9-11. Thou hast sent held the poor from their desire, and the stranger, and murder the Isa. liv, 4. Fear not; for thou more. set light by father and mother; in 1 Tim. v, 3, 4, 16. Honour widows that are widows indeed. But if any widows have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew picty at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God. If any man or woman that believthem, and let not the church be eth have widows, let them relieve charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed. undefiled before God and the James 1, 27. Pure religion and Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. GOD'S CARE OF WIDOWS. afflict any widow, or fatherless Exod. xxii, 22-24. Ye shall not child. If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry; And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless. Deut. x, 18. He doth execute and widow, and loveth the stranthe judgment of the fatherless ger, in giving him food and raiment. Deut. xxiv, 17, 18. Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless, nor take a widow's raiment to pledge: But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bond - man in Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee thing. to do this Deut. xxvii, 19. Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of dow: and all the people shall say, the stranger, fatherless, and wiAmen. fatherless, and a judge of the Ps. lxviii, 5. A father of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. Ps. cxlvi, 9. The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth way of the wicked he turneth upthe fatherless and widow; but the side down. Prov. xv, 25. The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but widow. he will establish the border of the less children, I will preserve them Jer. xlix, 11. Leave thy father MARRIAGES REPEATED. Gen. xxv, 1. Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah. 1 Sam. xxv, 39, 40. And when David heard that Nabal was dead, David sent and communed with Abigail to take her to him to wife. And when the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel, they spake unto her, say ing, David sent us unto thee, to take thee to him to wife. 2 Sam. xi, 27. And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her [Bath-sheba] to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD. Deut. xxl, 14. And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her. Deut. xxiv, 1-5. When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her, then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. And when she is departed out of his house she may go and be another man's wife. And if the latter husband hate her, and write ber a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away. Jer. ill, 1, 8. They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD. And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also. INSTANCES. Ezra x, 2-4, 10-12, 14--17. And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land; yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing. Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law. Arise; for this matter belongeth 1 Chron. ii. 18-21. And Caleb the son of Hezron begat children which took her to be his wife; Her the counsel of my lord, and of of Azubah his wife, and of Jerioth: her sons are these; Jesher, and Shobab, and Ardon. And when Azubah was dead, Caleb took unto him Ephrath, which former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defilled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not unto thee: we also will be with bare him Hur. And Hur begat cause the land to sin, which the thee: be of good courage, and do it. Uri, and Uri begat Bezaleel. And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir, the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was threescore years old, and she bare hin Segub. LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance. When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business; but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken. Ezek. xliv, 22. Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor said, Whosoever shall put away Matth. v, 31, 32. It hath been her that is put away: but they his wife, let him give her a writthe house of Israel, or a widowing of divorcement: But I say that had a priest before. shall take maidens of the seed of 1 Cor. vii, 40. But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God. 1 Tim. v, 11. But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wauton against Christ, they will marry. 2nd.-BY DIVORCE. Exod. xxi, 7-11. And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the menservants do. If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery. Matth. xix, 9, 10. And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery; and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery. His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry. Isa. 1, 1. Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the trespass of Israel. Now therefore make con fession unto the LORD God of our fathers, and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the peostrange wives. ple of the land, and from the Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice, As thou hast said, so must we do. Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us. Only Jonathan the son of Asahel, and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah, were employed about this matter; and Meshullam and Shabbethal the Levite helped them. And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by their names, were separated, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter. And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month. Esther 1, 19. If it please the king, let there go a royal command put away from her husband, com- I married I command, yet not I, but mitteth adultery. OTHER KINDS OF SEPARATIONS. ment from him, and let it be writ-swered and said to Laban, BeGen. xxxi, 31. And Jacob anten among the laws of the Per-cause I was afraid: for I said, sians and the Medes, that it be not Peradventure thou wouldest take altered, That Vashti come no by force thy daughters from me. more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she. Judges xiv, 20. But Samson's wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend. the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: But and if she depart, let her remain unnartied, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away not the Lord; If any brother hath his wife. But to the rest speak I, a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her Judges xv, 1, 2. But it came to not leave him. For the unbeliev pass within a while after, in the ing husband is sanctified by the time of wheat harvest, that Sam-wife, and the unbelieving wife is son visited his wife with a kid; sanctifled by the husband: else and he said, I will go in to my were your children unclean; but wife into the chamber: but her now are they holy. But if the unfather would not suffer him to go believing depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace. For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thon, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wite? And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her, therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of DIVORCE CONDEMNED. Mal. ii, 13, 14, 16. And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receivethin. it with good will at your hand. Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts; therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously. Matth. xix, 6-8. Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away? He saith unto them, Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so. Mark x, 2-5, 9--12. And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him. And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you? And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away. And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept: What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter. And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her. And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery. Luke xvi, 18. Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is her. 1 Sam. xxv, 44. But Sanl had 2 Sam. il, 13-16. And he said, VIOLATIONS OF THE ORIGINAL LAW OF MARRIAGE POLYGAMY. Gen. iv, 19. And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of my face, except thou first bring the one was Adah, and the name Jer. lil, 20. Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD. Hosea il, 7. And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now. John iv, 16-18. Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband: For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly. 1 Cor. vii, 10-16. And unto the Gen. xxvi, 34. And Esau was forty years old when he took to Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath, wife Judith, the daughter of the daughter of Elon the Hittite. Gen. xxvill, 8, 9. And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father, Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath, the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife. week, and we will give thee this Gen xxix, 27-30. Fulfil her also, for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years. And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week; and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also. And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid. And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years. Gen. xxx, 3, 4, 9, 26. And she said, Behold, my maid Bilhah, go in unto her, and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her. And she gave hine Billah ber handmaid to wife; and Jacob went in unto her. When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife, Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee. Gen. xxxvi, 2, 3. Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan, Adah tho daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Abolibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite; And Bashemath, Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebajoth. Deut. xvii, 17. Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away; neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold. Deut xxi, 15, 16. 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 first-born son be her's that was hated; Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved first-born before the son of the hated, which is indeed the first-born. Judges viil, 30. And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives. 1 Sam. 1, 2. And he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah bad children, but Hannah had no children. 1 Sam. xxv 42,43. And Abigail basted, and arose, and rode upon an ass, with five damsels of her's that went after her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife. David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives. 1 Sam. xxvii, 3. And David dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, eren David with his two wives, Ahinoam the JezreelItess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabil's wife. 1 Sam. xxx, 5. And David's two wives were taken captives, Ahi noam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail, the wife of Nabal, the Carmelite. 2 Sam. ii, 2. So David went up thither, and his two wives also, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail, Nabal's wife, the Carmelite. 2 Sam. ill, 2-5. And unto David were sons born in Hebron: and his first-born was Amnon of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; And his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wile of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah, the daughter of Talmal, king of Geshur; And the fourth, Adonij ch the son of Haggith; and the fitth, Shephatiah the son ot Atal; And the sixth, Ithream, by Eglah, David's wife. These were born to David in Hebron, 1 Chron. viii, 8. And Shaharaim begat children in the country of Moab, atter he had sent them away; Hushim and Baara were his wives. did bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother. And his concubine, who name was Reumah, she bare also Tebal, and Gaham, and Thalash, and Maachah. Gen. xxv, 6. But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gitts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, (while he yet lived,) eastward, unto the east country. Judges viii, 31. And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech. Judges xix, 1-3, 10. And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sjourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Beth-lehem-judah. his concubine played the whore against him, and went away from him unto her father's house to Beth-lehem-judah, and was there And 2 Chron. xi, 18--20, 23. And Re-four whole months. And her hoboam took him Mahalath, the daughter of Jerimoth, the son of David, to wife, and Abihail, the daughter of Eliab, the son of Jesse; Which bare him children; Jeush, and Shamariah, and Zabam. And after that he took Maachah the daughter of Absalom, which bare im Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith. . . . . . . And he desired many wives. husband arose, and went after her, to speak friendly unto her, and to bring her again, having his servant with him, and a couple of asses: and she brought him into her father's house; and when the father of the damsel saw him be But He rejoiced to meet him. man would not tarry that night, but he rose up and depart si, a Í came over against Jobos, (vidch 2 Chron. xili, 21. But Abijah is Jerusalem, (and there were with waxed mighty, and married four-im two asses saddled; his conteen wives, and begat twenty aud two sons, and sixteen daughters. 2 Chron. xx1, 12, 14. And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying..... Behold, with a great plague will the LORD Smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods. 2 Chron. xxiv, 2, 3. And Joash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest. And Jehofada took for him two wives; and be begat sons and daughters. Ezek. xxiii, 4. And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister; and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah, cubine also was with him. Judges xx, 3-6. (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up dren of Israel, Tell us, how was to Mizpel.) Then said the chilthis wickedness? And the Levite, the busband of the woman that was slain, answered and said, I came into Gibeah that belangeth to Benjamin, I and my concubino, to lodge: And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night, and thought to have slain me; and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead. And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel; for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel. Mal. ii, 15. And did not he 2 Sam. ill, 6, 7. And it came to make one? Yet had he the resi-pass, while there was war between due of the Spirit. And wherefore the house of Saul and the house one? That he might seek a goodly of David, that Abner made himTherefore take heed to self strong for the house of Saul. seed. your spirit, and let none deal And Saul had a concubine, whose treacherously against the wife of name was Rizpah, the daughter his youth. of Aiah: and Ishbosheth said to Abner, Wherefore hast thou gone in unto my father's concubine? CONCUBINES OR SECONDARY WIVES. 2 Sam. xv, 16. And the king Gen. xxii, 23, 24. And Bethuel went forth, and all his household begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah | after him. And the king left ten |