COMPANY to CONCUBINAGE
Contents
COMPANY
EVIL Ge 19:15; Ex 23:2, 49:6; 32-33; 34:12-15; Le 18:3; 20:23; Nu 16:21-26; 33:55; Deut 7:2-4; 12:30; Jos 23:6-13; Jud 2:1-3; 2Sa 23:6, 7; 2Ch 19:2; Ezr 9:14; Ps 1:1; 6:8; 26:4, 15:4; 5, 9; 28:3; 31:6; 50:18; 84:10; 101:4, 7; 106:34-35; 119:115; 139:19, 120:5-7; 21-22; Pr 1:10, 141:4; 2:11-12, 14-15; 16, 19; 4:14-15; 5:8; 9:6; 12:11, 26; 13:20; 14:7; 16:29; 17:12; 22:5, 10, 20:19; 24-25; 23:6, 20; 24:1; 28:7, 19; 29:16, 24; Ec 9:18; Isa 1:23; 6:5; 8:11-12; Jer 2:25; 9:2; 15:17; 51:6, 45; 7:5, Ho 4:17; 8-9; Mic 6:16; Mt 24:12; Ro 16:17-18; 1Co 5:6, 9-11; 2Co 6:14, 15:33; 15, 17; Ga 5:9; Eph 5:6-7; 2Th 3:6; 1Ti 5:22; 6:5; 2Pe 2:7, 2Ti 3:4, 5; 8, 18; 2Jo 1:10, 11; Re 2:2; 18:4
GOOD Pr 13:20
See COMMUNION OF SAINTS
See EXAMPLE
See FELLOWSHIP
See INFLUENCE
COMPASSES
CARPENTER'S Isa 44:13
COMPASSION
OF GOD
See GOD, MERCY OF
OF CHRIST
COMPLAINT
See MURMURING
COMPLICITY
General scriptures concerning Ps 50:18; Pr 29:24; Ro 1:32; 2Jo 1:10, 11
INSTANCES OF The daughter of Herodias, in asking for the head of John the Baptist Mt 14:8; Mr 6:25 .Pilate, in the death of Jesus Mt 27:17-26; Mr 15:9-15; Lk 23:13-25; Jn 19:13-16 .Paul, in the stoning of Stephen Ac 7:58 .
See COLLUSION
See CONNIVANCE
See CONSPIRACY
COMPROMISE
BEFORE LITIGATION, ENJOINED Pr 25:8-10; Mt 5:25, 26; Lk 12:58, 59 .
See ADJUDICATION
See ARBITRATION
See JUSTICE
See COURT
CONCEIT
General scriptures concerning Pr 3:5, 7; 12:15; 26:5, 23:4; 12, 16; 28:11, 26; Isa 5:21; Jer 9:23; Lk 18:11, 12; Ro 1:22; 11:25; 12:16
CONCEPTION
MIRACULOUS .By Sarah Ge 21:1, 2 .Rebekah Ge 25:21 .Rachel Ge 30:22 .Manoah's wife Jud 13:3-24 .Hannah 1Sa 1:19, 20 .Elisabeth Lk 1:24, 25, 36, 37, 58 .Mary Mt 1:18, 20; Lk 1:31-35
CONCISION
A term for "over-zealous" circumcision Php 3:2
CONCUBINAGE
LAWS CONCERNING Ex 21:7-11; Le 19:20-22; Deut 21:10-14 .Concubines might be dismissed Ge 21:9-14 .Called WIVES Ge 37:2; Jud 19:3-5 .Children of, not heirs Ge 15:4; 21:10 .Practiced by .Abraham Ge 16:3; 25:6; 1Ch 1:32 .Nahor Ge 22:23, 24 .Jacob Ge 30:4 .Eliphaz Ge 36:12 .Gideon Jud 8:31 .A Levite Jud 19:1 .Caleb 1Ch 2:46-48 .Manasseh 1Ch 7:14 .Saul 2Sa 3:7 .David 2Sa 5:13; 15:16 .Solomon 1Ki 11:3 .Rehoboam 2Ch 11:21 .Abijah 2Ch 13:21 .Belshazzar Da 5:2
CONCUBINE
in the Bible denotes a female conjugally united to a man, but in a relation inferior to that of a wife. Among the early Jews, from various causes, the difference between a wife and a concubine was less marked than it would be amongst us.
The concubine was a wife of secondary rank. There are various laws recorded providing for their protection (Ex. 21:7; Deut. 21:10-14), and setting limits to the relation they sustained to the household to which they belonged (Gen. 21:14; 25:6).
They had no authority in the family, nor could they share in the household government.
The immediate cause of concubinage might be gathered from the conjugal histories of Abraham and Jacob (Gen. 16:30). But in process of time the custom of concubinage degenerated, and laws were made to restrain and regulate it (Ex. 21:7-9).
Christianity has restored the sacred institution of marriage to its original character, and concubinage is ranked with the sins of fornication and adultery (Matt. 19:5-9; 1 Cor. 7:2).