The Israelites seized from their brothers 200,000 wives, sons, and daughters. They also carried off a huge amount of plunder and took it ¹  back to Samaria. ² 

And this very day the noble ladies of Persia and Media who have heard the matter concerning the queen will respond in the same way to all the royal officials, and there will be more than enough contempt and anger!

They sacrifice on the mountaintops, and burn offerings on the hills; they sacrifice ¹  under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is so pleasant. As a result, your daughters have become cult prostitutes, and your daughters-in-law commit adultery!

You also do this: You cover the altar of the Lord with tears ¹  as you weep and groan, because he no longer pays any attention to the offering nor accepts it favorably from you.

You must not have sexual intercourse with your father’s wife; she is your father’s nakedness. ¹ 

When David was told what Rizpah daughter of Aiah, Saul’s concubine, had done,

These were all the sons of David, not counting the sons of his concubines. ¹  Tamar was their sister.

Those who survive him are buried by the plague, ¹  and their ²  widows do not mourn for them.

They have sex with their father’s wife within you; ¹  they violate women during their menstrual period within you. ² 

You rely ¹  on your swords and commit abominable deeds; each of you defiles his neighbor’s wife. Will you possess the land?’

For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels ¹  in heaven.

Now a wife of one of the prophets ¹  appealed ²  to Elisha for help, saying, “Your servant, my husband is dead. You know that your servant was a loyal follower of the Lord. ³  Now the creditor is coming to take away my two boys to be his servants.”

I am as full of anger as you are, Lord, ¹  I am tired of trying to hold it in.” The Lord answered, ²  “Vent it, then, ³  on the children who play in the street and on the young men who are gathered together. Husbands and wives are to be included, ⁴  as well as the old and those who are advanced in years.

Then we will give ¹  you our daughters to marry, ²  and we will take your daughters as wives for ourselves, and we will live among you and become one people.

You must not have sexual intercourse with the daughter of your father’s wife born of your father; she is your sister. You must not have intercourse with her. ¹ 

Then they came very close to him and said, “We will build sheep folds here for our flocks and cities for our families, ¹ 

You must not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

Caleb son of Hezron fathered sons by his wife Azubah (also known as Jerioth). ¹  Her sons were Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon.

“We will not give our daughters in marriage to the neighboring peoples, and we will not take their daughters in marriage for our sons.

But upright men will punish them appropriately for their adultery and bloodshed, ¹  because they are adulteresses and blood is on their hands.