He had 700 royal wives ¹  and 300 concubines; ²  his wives had a powerful influence over him. ³ 

Gideon fathered seventy sons through his many wives. ¹ 

all the clans that remain, each separately with their wives.”

the clan of the descendants of Levi by itself and their wives by themselves; and the clan of the Shimeites ¹  by itself and their wives by themselves –

“Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.

Noah went out along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives.

So Jacob immediately put his children and his wives on the camels. ¹ 

Intermarry with us. ¹  Let us marry your daughters, and take our daughters as wives for yourselves. ² 

David had also married ¹  Ahinoam from Jezreel; the two of them became his wives.

David retrieved everything the Amalekites had taken; he ¹  also rescued his two wives.

Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.

Shaharaim fathered sons in Moab after he divorced his wives Hushim and Baara.

In Jerusalem ¹  David married ²  more wives and fathered more sons and daughters.

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

All these had taken foreign wives, and some of them also had children by these women. ¹ 

Then there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews. ¹ 

Lamech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah! Listen to me! You wives of Lamech, hear my words! I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man ¹  for hurting me.

How can we find wives for those who are left? ¹  After all, we took an oath in the Lord’s name not to give them our daughters as wives.”

Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than his other wives and concubines. ¹  He had eighteen wives and sixty concubines; he fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

Have you forgotten all the wicked things that have been done in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem by your ancestors, by the kings of Judah and their ¹  wives, by you and your wives?