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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: The case in point was Hebrew, not Greek. I do not have to "think" that Greek can sometimes be nonspecific in relation to plural or singular meaning. If Paul had said "teach thy son how to treat women," then one could follow the antipolygamist's style of reasoning and scriptural reasoning and say that Paul was therefore saying that it is God's ideal that a man have only "one" son since he did not say "sons", or that only ONE "son" should be taught how to treat a woman. As rediculous as this may sound, this is exactly what antipolygamists are doing when they point to the seemingly singular translation of an alleged "key" word. They are building a case upon nothing but air. Jesus' and Paul's words were never meant to be twisted into whatever meaning antipolygamists would choose to force upon the context. When Jesus and Paul were addressing divorce, then the antipolygamist has no right to force meaning into their words than what the context allows for. Doing so is an exercise in dishonesty. Thanks Don |