1. Concubines synonyms, Concubines pronunciation, Concubines translation, English dictionary definition of Concubines

2. 300 Concubines are the unnamed Concubines of King Solomon

3. And 80 concubines

4. Verses About Concubines 16 Verses About Concubines from 8 Books Genesis 25:6

5. Look at those concubines.

6. Queens and concubines, and they praise her.

7. Free Hebrew women also might become Concubines

8. Essentially, the difference between Concubines and wives is that Concubines were usually slaves or lower caste members, whereas wives were free Hebrew women

9. The sultan's wives and concubines live in the harem.

10. The king had four wives and twenty concubines.

11. Concubines had their own rooms and would fill their days applying make-up, sewing, practising various arts and socialising with other Concubines

12. The warlord treated his concubines as graceful playthings.

13. His concubines were looked after by the palace eunuchs.

14. 2 The king had four wives and twenty concubines.

15. The sultan's wives and concubines lived in the harem.

16. You may think first of his foreign wives and concubines.

17. First, the traffic in Concubines as a means for d …

18. The sons of my father's concubines always speak the loudest.

19. 3 The sultan's wives and concubines live in the harem.

20. 1 The sultan's wives and concubines lived in the harem.

21. Royal Concubines in early Joseon, particularly the selected Concubines (gantaek hugung) who came in through official selection, enjoyed particularly high position within the court and the society

22. 5 Official concubines became unofficial mistresses, and mistresses became secrets kept from wives.

23. However, this doesn’t mean that Concubines were necessarily unhappy about their marriages.

24. With hundreds or thousands of Concubines to choose from, a concubine was

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26. According to the biblical account, Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines.

27. Concubines were often taken by ruling members of Great Houses for companionship

28. The Concubines’ activities were generally overseen and monitored by the powerful eunuchs

29. The Old Testament records many instances of men having Concubines or many wives

30. In addition a reference is made to "the sons of the Concubines…

31. When she knew of Xiao Yi's concubines becoming pregnant, she would try to attack them with swords, and she often drank with the other concubines who were not favored by the prince.

32. But Scripture tells us that he had other wives plus a number of unknown Concubines

33. Why did having Concubines not fall under the sin of adultery? 2 Samuel 5:13 - "After he left Hebron, David took more Concubines and wives in Jerusalem, and more sons and daughters were born to him."

34. These women were called Concubines, and they often were treated better than the man’s wife.

35. Concubines were all women of lower classes bought with money, little better than maid servants

36. Furthermore, she never used her position to indulge in extravagances or covetously harm the emperor's concubines.

37. The most celebrated Concubines and courtesans in history set the trends in their respective courts

38. A countless number of imperial kitchen staff and concubines were involved in the food preparation process.

39. 30 There is little doubt that those Roman writers who equate slaves with concubines were telling the truth.

40. 18 There is little doubt that those Roman writers who equate slaves with concubines were telling the truth.

41. 19 The priest had to be denounced by his parishioners; many with concubines would have escaped challenge.

42. Savonarola thundered: “Church leaders, . . . at night you go to your concubines and in the morning to your sacraments.”

43. 24 Huge flurries of snow and feathers as his 20 panicked concubines flew up into the surrounding trees.

44. But one can imagine the relational neglect and emotional turmoil of sharing a husband with 299 other Concubines and 700 wives

45. The king of Babylon, named Belshazzar, held a feast and invited 1000 of his lords, his wives and concubines

46. 6 Giving up his five wives and dozen concubines, Vladimir demanded that all his subjects in Kiev become baptized.

47. In their dying moments, their wives and children were slaughtered before their eyes, while Jannaeus feasted openly with his concubines.

48. The traffic in Concubines flourished in Ming-Qing Jiangnan as a result of large scale interactions of political and socioeconomic contexts

49. On the death of his third wife, Charles lived with no less than three concubines who bore him numerous children.

50. Concubinage resembled marriage in that Concubines were recognized sexual partners of a man and were expected to bear children for him.

51. The parish clergy had to give up their concubines and accept a higher degree of accountability for performance of their duties.

52. 22 Pharaoh's daughter would probably be a daughter by one of his concubines,(www.Sentencedict.com) not a princess of blood-royal.

53. The Romance of the Harem: The City of Veiled Women of the King’s Harem, the Royal Wives and Concubines, their Children and Slaves

54. The 1959 Marriage and Family Law made further progress as it worked on ending systems of concubines, child marriage and forced marriage.

55. In the palace, just outside the quarters of the favorite concubines, there's an area called The Gathering Place of the Djinn.

56. 17 On the death of his third wife, Charles lived with no less than three concubines who bore him numerous children.

57. 21 About the only way to be a harem-guarding potentate nowadays is to start a cult and brainwash potential concubines about your holiness.

58. 4 The parish clergy had to give up their concubines and accept a higher degree of accountability for performance of their duties.

59. The tenth Ming ruler, Zhengde, who ascended in 1505, grew tired of Concubines and was obsessed with the life of an ordinary citizen.

60. 13 About the only way to be a harem-guarding potentate nowadays is to start a cult and brainwash potential concubines about your holiness.

61. Concubines normally served a dual purpose – to increase a man’s prestige through his capacity to produce children and, of course, limitless opportunities to indulge in sexual desires.

62. Concubinage was in existence before the Law covenant and was recognized and regulated by the Law, which protected the rights of both wives and concubines

63. Concubines and Power offers a detailed sociospatial geographical history of the residences, activities, and value of Concubines in the Kano palace.It brings together a wealth of information on the lives of women who populate the harem, the heart of the palace, and lends insight into how women contributed to Kano politics and culture during the past 500 years.

64. 16 In the Song of Solomon, the king said admiringly of a certain virgin that she was more beautiful than 60 queens and 80 concubines.

65. In any case, there was none of the imperial pageantry depicted in Bertolucci's film "The Last Emperor", nor did I notice any giggling concubines in the kitchen.

66. For example, the eunuchs Hegai and Shaashgaz served as guardians of the wives and concubines of Persian King Ahasuerus, who is thought to be Xerxes I. —Esther 2:3, 14.

67. But unto the sons of the Concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.

68. To seize on royal Concubines for his use was probably the intent of Abner's act, (2 Samuel 3:7) and similarly the request on behalf of Adonijah was construed

69. Shortly after, Lady Cui as well as 15 of the emperor’s remaining Concubines were hung from white silk nooses in the halls of the Forbidden City on the day of Yongle’s funeral

70. The account says that in the morning the other women brought to the king were returned to the second house under the charge of the king’s eunuch, “the guardian of the concubines.”

71. 14 In the evening she would go in, and in the morning she would return to the second house of the women,* under the care of Sha·ashʹgaz the king’s eunuch,+ the guardian of the concubines.

72. In the first detailed historical study of Tamil families in colonial India, Wives, Widows, and Concubines maps changes in the late colonial family in relation to the region's culture, politics, and economy

73. Who Were the Concubines? Apart from Sarah (mother of Isaac), and Hagar (mother of Ishmael), Abraham took to wife (after the death of Sarah) Keturah, and begat 16 descendants through her (Genesis 25:1-4)

74. Concubines could upgrade their status and earn their freedom in others ways, by either agreeing to a contract specifying freedom after a certain amount of her work (mukatabah) or the master pledging her freedom upon his death (mudabbarah)

75. Thus Lia and Rachel, the first two spouses of Jacob, had the full social standing of wives, while Bala and Zelpha, both bondwomen, were his Concubines, married for the purpose of bearing children for Rachel and Lia (Genesis 30:3, 9, 13)

76. Consorts of the Caliphs is a seventh/thirteenth-century compilation of anecdotes about thirty-eight women who were, as the title suggests, consorts to those in power, most of them concubines of the early Abbasid Caliphs and wives of latter-day Caliphs and sultans

77. Answer: In the Bible, a concubine is a woman who lives with a man as if she were a wife, but without having the same status as a wife. Concubines in the patriarchal age and beyond held an inferior rank—they were “secondary” wives.

78. 2 While he tasted the wine, Belshazzar commanded that they bring in the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple which was in Jerusalem, so that the king, and his officials, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them

79. + 2 While under the influence of the wine, Bel·shazʹzar gave an order to bring in the vessels of gold and silver that his father Neb·u·chad·nezʹzar had taken from the temple in Jerusalem,+ so that the king and his nobles, his concubines and his secondary wives could drink from them.

80. 1 Background 2 Chronology 2.1 The Emissary of the King Arc 2.2 The Craftsman of Dwarf Arc 3 Features 4 Layout 5 Trivia 6 References 7 Navigation The Adipocere Chamber is the one place where Shalltear often resides with her undead concubines such as the Vampire Brides