Sentences with phrase «of concubines»

Along with her husband, a harem of concubines, and a phosphorescent porcupine, she remains, as always, in hiding from the Polynesian Mafia.

Tzu Hsi, known as Orchid as a girl, was one among hundreds of concubines whose sole purpose was to bear the Emperor a son.

Also, they never know which department might have the brace of concubines Im might be searching for.

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.

As governor general, he insisted that his subordinates make honest wives of their concubines, made Catholicism the official religion, forbade divorce, and on one occasion placed his handkerchief on a woman's décolletage, telling her, «Modesty should be the endowment of your sex.»

Part of the reason for this is because after spending a night in the kings bed, the woman was returned to the harem of concubines, where she would spend the rest of her life in luxurious but desolate seclusion.

Ezekiel 23:20: «She lusted on account of their concubines, those whose basar is the basar of donkeys, and their flow the flow of stallions.»

Then Kristine read the story of the concubine from Judges 19 who was thrown to a mob by her husband, gang - raped, killed, and dismembered.

The betrayal, rape, murder and dismemberment of the concubine in Judges 19 is a striking example.

So Laban threw Bilhah into the bargain, giving Rachel status as a dowered wife, and Jacob the possibility of a concubine in time.

Moving from the intimacy of the concubine quarters into the spotlight of the world stage, Orchid must face not only the perilous condition of her empire but also a series of devastating personal losses, as first her son and then her adopted son succumb to early death.

I also enjoyed writing in the voice of Concubine Swallow — she is so scathing, darkly humorous, and self - loathing.

Barbara Chase - Riboud Well of the Concubine Pearl, 1967 polished aluminum, silk, wool, linen, synthetic fibers, and steel chain on painted steel base 81» x 30» x 30»

She is in the pose of a concubine in a harem popularized in the renderings of female nudes by the early 19th - century French artist, Jean Auguste Dominque Ingres.

«She is in the pose of a concubine in a harem popularized in the renderings of female nudes by the early 19th - century French artist, Jean Auguste Dominque Ingres,» according to the museum.

Not exact matches

Wu went from 14 - year - old junior concubine to empress of China.

Why should such a male oligarchy of the unholiest religious depraving others financially insecure ever be considered holy and these RCC unholies are but self - loathing ambassadorial concubines of anti-Christian ethics when plainly such men of the RCC will never break the breaded filthy monetary ways when they clearly are spiritual hoodlums in clothed garnishments of devilish unrighteousness...?

Ever heard of Solomon's 700 wives, of Lott sleeping with his own daughters (both) of Moses giving up his wife to be one of the Pharoh's concubines, all with apparent smiles from the hokey Yahweh sky - fairy?

In the Old testament of the Bible, Father abraham has wives and concubines.

In the bible, the father of Joseph and his 11 brothers and 1 sister, Jacob had two wives and two concubines.

(Also missing is any mention of the fact that the supposedly model marriage between David and Abigail included multiple wives and concubines.)

They have forgotten that the concubine of Bethlehem, the raped princess of David's house, the daughter of Jephthah, and the countless unnamed women who lived and died between the lines of Scripture exploited, neglected, ravaged, and crushed at the hand of patriarchy are as much a part of our shared narrative as Deborah, Esther, Rebekah, and Ruth.

He no longer even thought of commissioning altarpieces for the parish church that included himself on one side panel and his concubine and son on the other....

Try to imagine a man who had 300 wives and 700 concubines being extolled as the virtue of wisdom!

Thanks to them and to Canon Law, the pagan customs of polygamy, concubines, arranged marriages and the repression of women had been replaced by monogamy, marriage for life and mutual consent between the spouses.

When wicked men of the tribe of Benjamin demand to «know» her master, he instead throws the concubine to them.

In the evening she went, and in the morning she returned to the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's eunuch who kept the concubines.

But think of the horror of being one of these young women being rounded up, never to see family or loved ones again, with nothing ahead of you but to spend your life as one of the king's concubines.

For instance, a figure whom the text treats as a subsidiary character may become for feminist analysis the central character of the text (e.g., Jepthah's daughter in Judges, chapter 11, or the Levite's concubine in Judges, chapter 19).

13); and the Levite from the hill country of Ephraim participated with other males to bring about the betrayal, rape, murder and dismemberment of his own concubine (Judg.

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

On the one hand, he is telling his followers and us to choose life; but on the other hand, he is directing a policy of genocide in the aftermath of war, a policy under which the enemy's sons would all be killed, the nonvirgin females in the enemy tribe also killed, and the virgin females used as concubines.

Resisting unsuccessfully, the man and his guest were able to escape this violation only by letting the men of the city repeatedly rape the guest's concubine instead.

A male soldier and a female prisoner of war Women could be taken as booty from a successful campaign and forced to become wives or concubines.

To see how badly a concubine could be treated, see the famous story of the Levite and his concubine (Judges 19:1 - 30).

Wives were considered the property of their husband, though they held a higher status and more privileges than slaves and concubines (Exodus 20:17).

Not many of Gods followers had more than one wife either if you remember Sara gave a concubine to Abraham because she couldn't have any children so therefor he only had one wife also.

Solomon (author of Proverbs) for example, had 700 wives and 300 concubines.

But Genesis 19 no more condemns all homosexuality, than Judges 19 (in which the town of Gibeah rapes a female concubine all night) condemns all heterosexuality.

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.

The bible can be used to prove most anything... for example: its ok to use your tithes to buy a bottle of booze and drink it at a church conference its ok to have a concubine ditto slaves its an abomination to God to eat shrimp or catfish

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.

There are some horrible deeds recorded in the Old Testament that people apparently got away with (the story of the Levite's concubine in Judges 19 is one example).

and Esther praised for graciously submitting (by illegally requesting an audience with her husband, who she was forced to marry after he slept with hundreds of other concubines to pick his favorite?!).

The story of the dismembered concubine in Judges 19 is as much a part of «biblical womanhood» as stories about Esther and Ruth.

In this regard Solomon was, of course, notorious — «He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines.»

(30) 11:3 — «It is the nemesis of the reign of force... that the ideals of semi-divine rulers center upon some variant of Solomon's magnificent harem of 300 wives and 700 concubines» (AI 108).

--[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).

Assyrian records indicate a more critical tribute including some of Hezekiah's daughters, his «concubines, male and female musicians.