Bastard

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

(An illegitimate child)

Excluded from the congregation

• 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.

Instances of

Ishmael

• 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.
• Genesis 16:15 And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.
• Galatians 4:22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.

Moab and Ammon

• Genesis 19:36–37 Thus both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father. The older daughter gave birth to a son and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites of today.

Jephthah

• 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.

David's child by Bath-sheba

• 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. So David sent and inquired about the woman, and he was told, “This is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.” Then Davi…

Figurative

• Zechariah 9:6 A mixed race will occupy Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
• Hebrews 12:8 If you do not experience discipline like everyone else, then you are illegitimate children and not true sons.