Bastard

How Nave’s arranged it

• (An illegitimate child)
• Excluded from the congregationDeuteronomy 23:2
• INSTANCES OF
• IshmaelGenesis 16:3Genesis 16:15Galatians 4:22
• Moab and AmmonGenesis 19:36Genesis 19:37
• JephthahJudges 11:1
• David's child by Bath-sheba2 Samuel 11:2–5
• FIGURATIVEZechariah 9:6Hebrews 12:8

The passages, in Bible order (10)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 10 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 16:3

   So after he had lived in Canaan for ten years, his wife Sarai took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to Abram to be his wife.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 16:32 voices

   “It was not because he was ablaze with the heat of some unbridled passion, not because he was overcome by the charm of seductive beauty that Abraham gave preference to a relationship with a slave girl over the conjugal bed, but through a desire to procure a posterity and to enlarge his progeny. After the flood the human race was still numerically sparse. Hence it was also a matter of moral obligation that no one be seen to have failed to render the debt to nature.

   “And Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar her maid, the Egyptian,....

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2. Genesis 16:15

   And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 16:152 voices

   “And Hagar bare Abram a son,....

   “And Hagar bare Abram a son, etc. - It appears, therefore, that Hagar returned at the command of the angel, believing the promise that God had made to her.

   Everything gathered on Genesis 16:15→

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3. Genesis 19:36

   Thus both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 19:362 voices

   For Lot, not acting under the impulse of his own will, nor at the prompting of carnal concupiscence, nor having any knowledge or thought of anything of the kind, did [in fact] work out a type [of future events]. As says the Scripture: "And that night the elder went in and lay with her father; and Lot knew not when she lay down, nor when she arose." And the same thing took place in the case of the younger: "And he knew not," it is said, "when she slept with him, nor when she arose."

   “Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.

   Everything gathered on Genesis 19:36→

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4. Genesis 19:37

   The older daughter gave birth to a son and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites of today.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 19:372 voices

   “But I know that some, so far as the story pertains to a spiritual interpretation, have referred Lot to the person of the Lord and his daughters to the two Testaments. But I do not know if anyone freely accepts these views who knows what the Scripture says about the Ammonites and Moabites who descend from Lot's race.

   “And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab,.... As if it was "Meab", from the father, as Aben Ezra, and so Josephus, that is, which she had by her father; and she was so far from being ashamed that it might be known in time to come, she gave him this name. Hillerus (w) makes it to be a compound of אב and מובא, and to signify "going into", or "lying with a father", which still more notoriously points to her own action.

   Everything gathered on Genesis 19:37→

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5. Deuteronomy 23:2

   No one of illegitimate birth may enter the assembly of the LORD, nor may any of his descendants, even to the tenth generation.

   ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 23:22 voices

   “A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord,....

   “A bastard shall not enter - ממזר mamzer, which is here rendered bastard, should be understood as implying the offspring of an illegitimate or incestuous mixture.

   Everything gathered on Deuteronomy 23:2→

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6. Judges 11:1

   Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor; he was the son of a prostitute, and Gilead was his father.

   ›Commentary on Judges 11:12 voices

   “Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour,....

   “The history of Jephthah appears to be an independent history inserted by the compiler of the Book of Judges. Jdg 11:4-5 introduce the Ammonite war without any apparent reference to Jdg 10:17-18. A genealogy of Manasseh 1Ch 7:14-17 gives the families which sprang from Gilead, and among them mention is made of an “Aramitess” concubine as the mother of one family.

   Everything gathered on Judges 11:1→

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7. 2 Samuel 11:2–5

   One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman.

   ›Commentary on 2 Samuel 11:2–52 voices

   “We have taken up the task of writing an apology for the present style of the prophet David, not because he needs this gift, who has excelled in such great merits and flourished in virtues, but because many people, reading the sequence of his deeds without considering the power of the Scriptures or the hidden mysteries, wonder how such a great prophet did not avoid the contagion of adultery first and then of murder. Therefore, it was our desire to review the history itself, which seems to have been exposed to sin.

   “And it came to pass in an eveningtide,....

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8. Zechariah 9:6

   A mixed race will occupy Ashdod,and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

   ›Commentary on Zechariah 9:62 voices

   “And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod,....

   “A bastard shall dwell in Ashdod - This character would suit Alexander very well, who most certainly was a bastard; for his mother Olympia said that Jupiter Ammon entered her apartment in the shape of a dragon, and begat Alexander! Could her husband Philip believe this? The word signifies a stranger.

   Everything gathered on Zechariah 9:6→

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9. Galatians 4:22

   For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.

   ›Commentary on Galatians 4:222 voices

   “(Verse 22, 23.) For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and one by a free woman. But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while the son of the free woman was born through the promise. It is of great difficulty to demonstrate that only Isaac, who was born of Sarah, was generated through the promise, and not also Ishmael, who was born of the Egyptian slave Hagar.

   “For it is written,.... In Gen 16:15 that Abraham had two sons, not two sons only; for besides the two referred to, he had six more, Gen 25:2 but it being only pertinent to the apostle's purpose to take notice of these two, he mentions no more, though he does not deny that he had any more. These two sons were Ishmael and Isaac: the one by a bondmaid. Ishmael was by Hagar, Sarah's servant, who represented the covenant the Jewish nation was under the bondage of. The other by a free woman.

   Everything gathered on Galatians 4:22→

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10. Hebrews 12:8

    If you do not experience discipline like everyone else, then you are illegitimate children and not true sons.

    ›Commentary on Hebrews 12:82 voices

    “Fathers are in the habit of disciplining their true children, and if they see them caned by the teachers, they do not worry; they see the fruit coming from the discipline. But they despise illegitimate children and do not accord them equal attention. So if …

    But if any one be maliciously prosecuted by the heathen, because he will not still go along with them to the same excess of riot, let him know that such a one is blessed of God, according as our Lord says in the Gospel: "Blessed are ye when men shall reproach you, or persecute you, or say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice and be exceeding glad, for your reward is great in heaven."

    Everything gathered on Hebrews 12:8→

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