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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: Mark, It's rather strong proof, since you rely on the entirely unsupported notion that ANY person in Israel or Judah looked upon Polygyny with anything that amounted to a jaundiced eye. There is in fact no support for that notion. It was a normal practice. You suppose an entity that we do not know exists, a person that was an advocate for a practice that there wasn't even a word for in the Hebrew tongue. You further suppose that a wife died, when no mention is made of this, and that instead of phrasing it "Jehoiada gave a wife to Joash, and she died, so he gave her another" the writer uses language normally supposed to be concurrent and says he gave her two wives, but instead we have to torture the passage to see it that way. This sort of lawyering is what the Gays do to wrangle a permission for homosexual behavior and "marriage". A thin slice of ambiguity here, another there, and it all amounts to a mandate in your eyes. You have yet to answer how it is that Genesis 2:24 amounted to a monogamy mandate in the first place, in light of my analysis. I'd like you to do that, since it is where you gain your predisposition in examining all other scripture. Believe me, I understand that if Genesis 2:24 does contain a monogamy mandate, you are better founded in your position about Joash. If it does not, you're ratinoalizing. I get it. If only monogamy is righteous and Genesis declares that, then it is logical to presume that Jehoiada gave two wives to Joash in sequence, but since there is no such mandate in Genesis, I would see your treatment of the passage as wrangling. Hugh |