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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: Greetings. I will not be able to address all of your message since there are so many people responding to all this, and since much of it would be a repeat of the other postings I have already made. I cannot possibly keep up with it all. After all, I am just one man against all these other men who refuse to read the scriptures for what they say. However, I will say that relying upon the weakness of "singular" versus "plural" in the English translations of the Bible is a common trap many people fall into who do not know Hebrew or Greek. Those of us who know the languages are well aware of the fact that the Hebrew and Greek are not always so specific where singular or plural is concerned. After all, the Hebrew language does not have a word that expresses what we call "eternity". This creates a problem that allows the translators to incorporate their own personal bias. For instance, when Proverbs instructs a man to raise his "son" (singular) in the ways of righteousness, does that mean that we are all limited to having only one son, or that only one of our sons is to be raised in the ways of righteousness? I think you may now see the weakness of the arguement you have presented. In Christ Jesus Don |