He had two wives; the name of the first was Hannah and the name of the second was Peninnah. Now Peninnah had children, but Hannah was childless.

David married more concubines and wives from Jerusalem after he arrived from Hebron. Even more sons and daughters were born to David.

He said to him, “This is what Ben Hadad says, ‘Your silver and your gold are mine, as well as the best of your wives and sons.’”

According to the genealogical records of their families, they had 36,000 warriors available for battle, for they had numerous wives and sons. ¹ 

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.

(They gave their word ¹  to send away their wives; their guilt offering was a ram from the flock for their guilt.)

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

the sons of God ¹  saw that the daughters of humankind were beautiful. Thus they took wives for themselves from any they chose.

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.

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 

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

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,

This is what the Lord says: ‘I am about to bring disaster on you ¹  from inside your own household! ²  Right before your eyes I will take your wives and hand them over to your companion. ³  He will have sexual relations with ⁴  your wives in broad daylight! ⁵ 

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?

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

So her sons ¹  married ²  Moabite women. (One was named Orpah and the other Ruth.) ³  And they continued to live there about ten years.