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

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

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

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

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

¹ Wives, submit ²  to your husbands as to the Lord,

Wives, submit to your ¹  husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against them.

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.”

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 –

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

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

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.

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

Our children, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock will be there in the cities of Gilead,

Gideon fathered seventy sons through his many wives. ¹ 

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

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

He built high places for all his foreign wives so they could burn incense and make sacrifices to their gods. ¹ 

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