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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: Reading over Scripture where adultery is mentioned and spelled out at all, it is a man lying with another man's wife (or betrothed) In other words, the woman had to be married. Yahshua (Jesus) spelled this out a bit clearer, and showed that a man marrying a woman who had been put away also committed adultery. What he did not make clear is whether a woman who had been properly divorced was an adulteress or not, and whether marrying this woman would constitute adultery. Another thing many conservative churches teach that is un-Scriptural is the teaching that divorced people should seperate from each other, and return to the original spouse should the later husband die. Deu 24:1-4 specifically forbids this and calls it and abomination In any case, adultery was punishable by death for both parties involved. This being the case, the arguement that polygyny is adultery is rather poor because then every man who had more than one wife should have been put to death. Why is this ignored my mainstream christianity? |