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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: I think you're grasping. There is no reason to suppose that these two wives were given sequentially. But if you're going to argue this line of reasoning, then it's fair to say that none of the persons you may suppose to be monogamous in Scripture can be said to be monogamous, unless it is specificly stated that they were. The verbage would have to be "Adam took only Eve for a wife all his days and had no relations with any of his offspring such as righteous Lot did." One cannot now suppose that Joseph, husband of Mary was monogamous, all claims that Jesus was never married must be swept aside as baseless. Many of the Kings of Israel and Judah had marriages to wives that coincided with one another. It would be more likely that it would say, "Joash took two wives from Jehoiada the Priest, one died and to comfort him, Jehoiada found him another, and thus Joash was comforted." The whole structure of the passage nearly rules out any possibility that these were consecutive wives, they were simoultaneous. |