Genesis 16:3
So Sarai, Abram's wife took her Egyptian slave Hagar and gave her to her husband as his wife. Abram had been living in the land of Canaan for ten years when this happened.
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Genesis 16:5Then Sarai complained to Abram, “What I'm suffering is all your doing! I gave you my servant to sleep with, and now that she knows she's pregnant, she treats me with contempt. May the Lord decide who's at fault—you or me!”
Genesis 25:6But while he was still alive, he gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them to live in the east, well away from Isaac.
Genesis 30:4She gave her personal maid Bilhah to him as a wife and Jacob slept with her.
Genesis 32:22He got up during the night and took his two wives and the two personal maids and his eleven sons and crossed the Jabbok River at the ford.
Judges 19:1At that time Israel didn't have a king. A Levite who was living in a remote area in the hill country of Ephraim married a concubine-wife from Bethlehem in Judah.
1 Kings 11:3He had seven hundred wives of noble birth and three hundred concubines. His wives did convince him to turn away from the Lord.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 16:2-4
Abram, Sarai, and Hagar. ( b. c. 1911.) 1 Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. 2 And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the Lord hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai. 3 And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife. We… Read the whole commentary →