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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, Without words like ONLY, the uses of the singular is unremarkable. Many times for instance, one of David's wives is refered to in the singular as "his wife", it hardly means he doesn't have others. Similar statements are made about sons. God goes so far as to use "only" with reference to Jesus. Another such reference is made to a Judge's daughter, designating her his only child, and Uriah's wife is mentioned as his ONLY wife by Nathan the Prophet. Furthermore, I think I have pointed out that the Hebrew word for "wife" ('ishshah) is also the Hebrew word for wives. It is also translated elsewhere to mean "Marry" or even as the word for joining MULTLIPLE temple curtains together or describing the multiple loops for the temple curtains. I mentioned Lot because following your logic, of not adding on this narrow a level, where the whole thrust of the passage seems to go in one direction, yet you go another, that sex with your own children had not been prohibitted at the time of Lot. Lot is said to be righteous. Lot fathers sons through his own daughters, these nations go on to become neighbors to Israel right along with Edom (Esau). Since scripture does not mention this as wrong at that time, since Genesis 2:24 does NOT describe a monogamy of necessity, and since Adam COULD have taken a daughter of his own, just as Lot did, why do we suppose that he didn't? All I'm asking for his is a little honesty. I don't think Adam bedded one of his daughters, but I also don't think that Joash was given wives sequentially, because it doesn't say that. Joash would have procured, based on scriptural precident, his own wives after the first one (or in this case two) that were given to him. Hugh |