Abijah’s power grew; he had ¹  fourteen wives and fathered twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.

So look, the Lord is about to severely afflict ¹  your people, your sons, your wives, and all you own.

Look, our fathers died violently ¹  and our sons, daughters, and wives were carried off ²  because of this.

and to all the infants, wives, sons, and daughters of the entire assembly listed in the genealogical records, for they faithfully consecrated themselves.

So they brought the gold and silver ¹  vessels that had been confiscated from the temple, the house of God ²  in Jerusalem, and the king and his nobles, together with his wives and concubines, drank from them.

In the same way ¹  husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

They took the Canaanites’ daughters as wives and gave their daughters to the Canaanites; ¹  they worshiped ²  their gods as well.

your infants, your wives, and the ¹  foreigners living in your encampment, those who chop wood and those who carry water –

When David and his men came to the city, they found it burned. ¹  Their wives, sons, and daughters had been taken captive.

Their houses will be turned over to others as will their fields and their wives. For I will unleash my power ¹  against those who live in this land,” says the Lord.

He wisely placed some of his many sons throughout the regions of Judah and Benjamin in the various fortified cities. ¹  He supplied them with abundant provisions and acquired many wives for them. ² 

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

Likewise also their wives ¹  must be dignified, not slanderous, temperate, faithful in every respect.

Then all the men who were aware that their wives were sacrificing to other gods, as well as all their wives, answered Jeremiah. There was a great crowd of them representing all the people who lived in northern and southern Egypt. ¹  They answered,

Esau took his wives from the Canaanites: ¹  Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah and granddaughter ²  of Zibeon the Hivite,

But we can’t allow our daughters to marry them, ¹  for the Israelites took an oath, saying, ‘Whoever gives a woman to a Benjaminite will be destroyed!’ ² 

The Benjaminites did as instructed. ¹  They abducted two hundred of the dancing girls to be their wives. ²  They went home ³  to their own territory, ⁴  rebuilt their cities, and settled down. ⁵ 

Now give praise to the Lord God of your fathers, and do his will. Separate yourselves from the local residents ¹  and from these foreign wives.”

Jesus ¹  said to them, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of your hard hearts, ²  but from the beginning it was not this way.

And I say this, brothers and sisters: ¹  The time is short. So then those who have wives should be as those who have none,