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Biblical Marriages

What does the Bible really say about marriage?

G
Gideon
Wives: Many
Concubines: 1
Children: Many

Wives

Unnamed wives

Seventy sons

Concubines

Unnamed concubine

Abimelech

Scripture References

Judges 6:11

And there came an angel of the Lord, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.

Judges 8:30-31

And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives. And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech.

Judges 8:32

And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.