1 Samuel 25:43

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Jezreel, Jokdeam, Zanoah,

David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal’s wife.

David’s two wives were taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,

“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”

Lamech took two wives: the name of the first one was Adah, and the name of the second one was Zillah.

So David went up there with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

He shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.

Sons were born to David in Hebron. His firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess;

of the nations concerning which Yahweh said to the children of Israel, “You shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon joined to these in love.

Now these were the sons of David, who were born to him in Hebron: the firstborn, Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; the second, Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelitess;

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, because of the floodwaters.

Rebekah arose with her ladies. They rode on the camels, and followed the man. The servant took Rebekah, and went his way.

The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, “Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.

Rachel and Leah answered him, “Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?

Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?

His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.

The seven good cattle are seven years; and the seven good heads of grain are seven years. The dream is one.

But you who were faithful to Yahweh your God are all alive today.

You shall fear Yahweh your God. You shall serve him. You shall cling to him, and you shall swear by his name.

For if you shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you—to do them, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cling to him—

“But if you do at all go back, and hold fast to the remnant of these nations, even these who remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you;

Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body, for he had many wives.

Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, “You just hate me, and don’t love me. You’ve told a riddle to the children of my people, and haven’t told it to me.” He said to her, “Behold, I haven’t told my father or my mother, so why should I tell you?”

He had two wives. The name of one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.

When he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

There was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great. He had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats; and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail. This woman was intelligent and had a beautiful face; but the man was surly and evil in his doings. He was of the house of Caleb.

When David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, their sons, and their daughters were taken captive.

I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan. You have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.

All his servants passed on beside him; and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men who came after him from Gath, passed on before the king.

David took more wives at Jerusalem, and David became the father of more sons and daughters.

Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah repaired the valley gate. They built it, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and one thousand cubits of the wall to the dung gate.

Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father’s house.

My soul stays close to you. Your right hand holds me up.

Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law, and the words which Yahweh of Armies had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of Armies.

But Jesus, answering, said to him, “Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed him.

and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’

He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.

But Jesus said to them, “For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment.

and the two will become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife.

Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

The demons begged him, saying, “If you cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of pigs.”

But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.