Sentences with phrase «concubines did»

«What is wrong in people practicing what Abraham did»... How many wives and Concubines did Abraham have??? How many are we doing today??

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Why did God punish Solomon for, among other things, his many wives and concubines?

On the other hand, it does praise Solomon as the wisest of men and he had over a THOUSAND wives and concubines.

And just as we no longer countenance slavery, which both Old and New Testaments regarded as normal, so we also no longer countenance the use of female slaves, concubines and captives as sexual toys or breeding machines by their male owners, which Leviticus 19:20 f., II Samuel 5:13 and Numbers 31:17 - 20 permitted — and as many American slave owners did slightly over 100 years ago.

Most do not want to return to a time when fathers owned their daughters and sold them to the highest bidder (Exodus 21:7; Nehemiah 5:5; Genesis 29:1 — 10), when multiple wives and concubines were a part of everyday life (even for men of God like Abraham, Jacob, and David), when women were forbidden from owning property, when foreign virgins could be captured as spoils of war (Judges 21), when a woman's lack of virginity could get her executed (Deuteronomy 22:11, Leviticus), when the stories of brave women like Tamar and Dinah and Esther and Vashti and Leah and Rachel emerge from contexts of oppression.

I learn my morals from the Bible — that is why I do not eat shelfish, I go to church on Saturday I have five wives, 10 slaves and 3 concubines the Bible told me so

Paul tells women that they do not have to be concubines of their husbands and encourages them not to have sex.

Does this mean modern American men should also have as many wives as they can afford to support, along with twice as many concubines?

But did you know that back during medieval times in the Middle Kingdom (the Chinese thought that their country was located in the middle of the world or something like that), concubines and empresses would switch babies without a second thought for male babies instead of female babies to increase their chances of having their heir ascend the throne and thus securing their status in the palace.

Though, in the comics, T'Challa did not indulge in the concubine aspect of the group, this tradition still sullied the otherwise revered group of women.

Farewell My Concubine may have been better received, but the Chinese director's follow - up is the more ravishing movie; set largely in 1920s Shanghai, it doesn't evoke a past era so much as a universe of indulgences, temptations, and sumptuous textures lost to time.

Farewell my Concubine was pretty bad — can't believe you didn't see it.

Campion, who is the first and only female filmmaker to have won the coveted Palme d'Or in 1993 for her film The Piano (which she shared with Chen Kaige for Farewell My Concubine), has assembled a first - time female - majority panel which include: director Sofia Coppola, actress Carole Bouquet, Iranian actress Leila Hatami, Korean actress Jeon Do - yeon, director Nicolas Winding - Refn, actor Gael Garcia Bernal, actor Willem Dafoe, and Chinese director and former Cannes award - winner Jia Zhangke.

«It's too hard in a house like that of Ezra, where they do not allow concubines.»

I wanted to fictionalize and write about this regicidal plot from the concubines» perspective because I admired how they fought back against the emperor, and were willing to sacrifice their lives to do so.

You'll likely feel a renewed sense of appreciation for the fact that your line of work doesn't involve being a queen, a concubine or a clone.

Many figures with little relevancy to the period, particularly the female figures who for the most part did not participate in any of the battles, have larger roles; Koshosho, notable for being Motochika Chosokabe's concubine in real life, becomes his primary rival in his conquest of Shikoku and is the representative of the Miyoshi clan in - game.