Old Testament
From the beginning in the Garden God knew it was not good for man to be alone... and it has never been quiet since. For example
ADAM & EVE...
were of course the first man & woman, and the first husband and wife. This is what God intended, and the 'dance' of love between man and woman begins with classic moments like
fig
leave fashions that were less than flattering ,
and the ol' "am I the only girl for
you?" question was asked when literally EVE WAS THE ONLY WOMAN. Even outtakes from the very first dating game showed the obvious differences between Adam and Eve.
   
ABRAHAM &SARAH...
  Later on Abraham enters the scene well into his 70s when God calls upon him. His wife Sarah was in her 60s but was still a hottie, but protecting himself by calling Sarah his sister was NOT COOL.
Then Abraham gets himself into more trouble when he listens to his wife about starting a family with her maidservant Hagar. Being a guy Abraham says ok, but this of course is not God's plan and though it was Sarah's great (NOT) idea, in the end it was declared all his
fault.
 
Of course God's plan was for Old Man Abraham to be the father a nation with his Old Wife Sarah as the mother and in God's time they had a son named Isaac.
Another noteworthy marriage of the OT was Lot and his Wife ... until she became sadly a pillar of salt. Try explaining this to the local CSI team.
In a rather unique marital scenario of Biblical proportions we next find...
JACOB marries SISTERS... in a 2 for 1 deal after the ol' switcheroo netted him with Leah when he was courting sister Rachel. BUMMER!
So after Jacob settles down with his '2 wives' they work out a unique Time Share arrangement as they start their own little fertility battle. The one with the most babies WINS.
Other noteworthy OT marriage moments were MOSES & his bride Zipporah 'Zippy' and the infamous parting of the Hot Bath? , Gideon's Honey
, and 12 spies have some splainin to do when they shared their lives were saved by a prostitute. SOLOMON did everything big including marrying 700 wives and collecting 300 'interns' while in contrast AHAB marries just one really bad .. JEZEBEL in a match made a little south of Heaven.
   
New
Testament
 
In the Gospels we hear right away about - ZECHERIAH & ELIZABETH: Like in most marriages she wanted to talk about things, while Zech was a man of few words.
Then.. just a few months later on the road to Bethlehem on that glorious Silent Night Jesus was born, it was not
silent for others traveling the same road.
One other infamous husband wife moment came when Joseph and Mary forgot Jesus at the Temple at age 12. Of course we know who's fault that was.
I am sure there are many other Bible couples I have forgot about, but these were all just a few marriage moments gleaned from the Bible and placed into The Back Pew.
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