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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: Steve, I was very clear. The man cannot commit adultery against his wife. This allows for the possibility that a man CAN commit adultery, but it's against God, and against the man to whom the woman is married. Matthew 19 suggests that he can commit it against a woman, but only if he has first divorced her. Adultery is always described as needing a married woman or a woman who was married. No situation that merely involves a female human being is described as adultery per se. There has to be a qualifier. She was married to a man still living, she is married to a man still living, or she is betrothed to a man still living. I hope I didn't leave anything out. Your quote for instance in Nubmers says "If any man's WIFE goes astray, and BREAKS FAITH WITH HIM." |