Sentences with phrase «concubines like»

Get the state out of the marriage business, and let the wealthiest among us collect a harem of concubines like the days before the church declared marriage a sacrament.

I wouldnt mind being able to have multiple wives and concubines like in the bible.

Not exact matches

But a much - abused woman like Mrs. Giscard d'Estaing could at least take refuge in her spousal rights, both legal and social, while the liberated Ms. Trierweiler was a concubine, easily discarded.

Be like Solomon and have 700 wives and 300 concubines (whatever that is) so that it isn't nasty anymore.

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.

Furthermore, stories surrounding women like Tamar of Genesis, Dinah, Hagar, the dismembered concubine of Judges 19, Jephthah's daughter, Tamar of the Davidic narrative, and so on reveal the profound inequity that characterized day - to - day life for women living in the ancient Near East.

How can we say the Bible preaches marriage as one man and one woman when David — a man after God's own heart, according to scripture — and others, like Solomon — had multiple wives and concubines?

--[He said] «his eyes twinkling, «It seems a little odd that a person like Solomon with his million wives and thousand concubines should have been chosen to write parts of» [the Bible](Dial 330f).

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.

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