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NASB | 1 Kings 11:3 He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart away. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Kings 11:3 He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart away [from God]. |
Subject: Does God endorse polygamy? |
Bible Note: Hello Don The appeal to Mark 10 is faulty. The Pharisees equated Moses with the totality of the Mosaic Law. The Lord was just using a shortcut method to ask what the Law stated. Exodus 21:10 is stating that if the slave girl is promised to a son, but the son chooses to marry another, the slave girl must not lose the maintenance amount she was receiving. In the Hebrew culture one betrothed was considered as good as married, so that marrying another would be "taking another wife." I know you were not emphatically stating Adam had multiple wives. However, your promotiion of uncertainty and doubt in raising the issue shows your intent is not to clarify the matter but muddy it until your position seems plausible. Let's work with the clear and plain testimony of Scripture. Steve |