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

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?

The land will mourn, clan by clan – the clan of the royal household of David by itself and their wives by themselves; the clan of the family of Nathan ¹  by itself and their wives by themselves;

Noah entered the ark along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives because ¹  of the floodwaters.

They captured as plunder ¹  all their wealth, all their little ones, and their wives, including everything in the houses.

He said to the people, “Be ready for the third day. Do not go near your wives.” ¹ 

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

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

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

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

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

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

All the men of Judah ¹  were standing before the Lord, along with their infants, wives, and children.

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

When you see a thief, you join him; ¹  you associate with men who are unfaithful to their wives. ²