Verse 3

And David took more wives in Jerusalem, and David fathered more sons and daughters.

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  • Deut 17:17 : 17 Neither shall he multiply wives for himself, lest his heart turn away; nor shall he greatly multiply silver and gold for himself.
  • 2 Sam 5:13 : 13 And David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem after he came from Hebron, and more sons and daughters were born to David.
  • 1 Kgs 11:3 : 3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.
  • 1 Chr 3:1-4 : 1 Now these were the sons of David, who were born to him in Hebron: the firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; the second, Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelitess. 2 The third, Absalom the son of Maachah, the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur; the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith. 3 The fifth, Shephatiah of Abital; the sixth, Ithream by Eglah his wife. 4 These six were born to him in Hebron, where he reigned seven years and six months; and in Jerusalem, he reigned thirty-three years.
  • Prov 5:18-19 : 18 Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of your youth. 19 Let her be as the loving deer and graceful doe; let her breasts satisfy you at all times; and be ravished always with her love.
  • Eccl 7:26-29 : 26 And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands are chains. He who pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be trapped by her. 27 Behold, this have I found, says the preacher, counting one by one to find out the sum. 28 Which my soul still seeks, but I find not; one man among a thousand I have found, but a woman among all those I have not found. 29 Lo, this only have I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes.
  • Eccl 9:9 : 9 Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which He has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in this life and in your labor which you take under the sun.
  • Mal 2:14 : 14 Yet you say, Why? Because the LORD has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously; yet she is your companion and the wife of your covenant.
  • Matt 19:4-5 : 4 And he answered and said to them, Have you not read that he who made them at the beginning made them male and female, 5 And said, For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh?
  • Matt 19:8 : 8 He said to them, Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.