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NASB | Acts 13:22 "After He had removed him, He raised up David to be their king, concerning whom He also testified and said, 'I HAVE FOUND DAVID the son of Jesse, A MAN AFTER MY HEART, who will do all My will.' |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Acts 13:22 "And when He had removed him, He raised up David to be their king: of him He testified and said, 'I HAVE FOUND DAVID the son of Jesse, A MAN AFTER MY OWN HEART [conforming to My will and purposes], who will do all My will.' [1 Sam 13:14; Ps 89:20; Is 44:28] |
Bible Question:
ebrain, thanks for your reply. Praise God for your salvation! But I guess a point was not addressed. David LIVED with these many wives all his life. For this, he never repented because he never divorced them. So it still seems that he lived in adultery and it seems difficult to accept that he could be such an important model for a Christian and such a paradigm of one whose heart was after God's own heart. Finder |
Bible Answer: Dear Finder, Polygamy and adultery are very different things... very different things indeed! There is no admonition in Scripture regarding taking more than one wife. The practice of monogamy stems from the principles of Scripture, not from the Law. Notice, for example, that God created only a single wife for Adam. Furthermore, every instance of polygamy in Scripture was accompanied by a plethora of additional problems, both practical and spiritual. Whereas David committed adultery with Bathsheba, his other matrimonial relationships were not adulterous. Indeed, in 2 Samuel 20:3 we find David carefully avoiding adultery and showing kindness to ten concubines. Since Absalom had slept with them (2 Samuel 16:22), if David had had relations with them it would have been adulterous. The norm during that day would have been to have killed the concubines. Instead, David very generously sees to their care for the rest of their lives. Every one of us is fraught with failure and shortcomings. That is what the Scriptural doctrine of total depravity is all about. It is a matter of extensiveness, not intensiveness. David was a man like us all, but without the advantage of the full canon of Scripture. Nevertheless, the general bent of his life manifested his love for the Lord, the source of grace by which he lived. In the spirit of Christian charity, I urge you to not place fault against anyone above that which is done by the Word of God. To do so is to fail at obedience to the law (James 4:11). A high regard for the Scripture means that we take care not to say anything more or anything less than that which has been given us by God. In Him, Doc |