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1 | How did godly men marry several women? | 1 Corinthians | rach | 85644 | ||
Where does scripture clairify one man one women? Why where there not consequences to godly men with several wives? | ||||||
2 | How did godly men marry several women? | 1 Corinthians | Hank | 86282 | ||
How did godly men marry several women? One at a time most likely :-) ..... Sorry, I couldn't resist! .... God has never made a rescission of His plan for the union of a man and woman that He laid down in Genesis 2:24. The word that the King James translators used to describe the union between man and woman is "cleave," which is a powerful word with an interesting etymology. It came from an Old English word that meant "clay," which in turn came from a Latin word that meant "glue." .... You also asked why there were no consequences to godly men with several wives. But there were. The tragedy of King David and his sons serves as a dramatic example. (There were others.) Some of the saddest words in the Bible are King David's lament for his slain son, Absalom, (see 2 Samuel 18:33) whose extreme ambition motivated him to attempt to seize the throne forcibly from his father, a rash act that led to Absalom's tragic death by Joab. Another of David's sons, Adonijah, plotted to seize his dying father's throne from his brother Solomon, the heir apparent, by a coup d'etat. The plot failed, but after the death of King David and Solomon's accession to the throne, King Solomon ordered the execution of his older brother Adonijah. (See 1 Kings 2:24). --Hank | ||||||