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I was thinking long and hard about polygamy and decided to open the old KJV up to have a gander at what the Lord had to say about it. I found this:
Exodus 21:10
If he take him another; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
----So rules were set forth that after a man takes a second wife, the first one still gets everything she had before: food, clothing, baby making without any loss.
Deuteronomy 21:15
If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated:
----Again more rules for having more than one wife.
2 Samuel 5:13, 1 Chronicles 3:1-9, and 1 Chronicles 14:3
----David had 6 wives and many concubines.
1 Kings 11:3
And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.
----Solomon had seven hundred wives, and if my previous comments were adhered to, which they must have since he was Solomon, then he was a busy fella making sure there was nothing diminishing.
2 Chronicles 11:21
And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore daughters.)
----Solomon's son, Rehoboam, also a busy fellow.
Isaiah 4:1
And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
----Seven women one man. They are required to marry, and it is the only way to remove their reproach.
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Now I know what you are saying. "Brother WW, this is all Old Testament. And unless it is also in the NT, it must have been fulfilled."
I was thinking the same thing friends, but then I found these passages.
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Matthew 19:8
He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
----Pretty sure I read wives as plural not singular there.
1 Timothy 3:2
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
1 Timothy 3:12
Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
----Why have the clarification of one wife for a Bishop or Deacon unless there was an option for more than one?
We start life at a 1:1 ratio, but between work, risk, and war more men die than women. These widows need husbands. Well if every man were doing his woman marrying and son sire-ing duties, the only way to take care of these husbandless shameful women would be to marry a married man and have her reproach removed. It is the only way they can have a good man to direct them and let them save themselves through childbearing.
Thoughts?
Exodus 21:10
If he take him another; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
----So rules were set forth that after a man takes a second wife, the first one still gets everything she had before: food, clothing, baby making without any loss.
Deuteronomy 21:15
If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated:
----Again more rules for having more than one wife.
2 Samuel 5:13, 1 Chronicles 3:1-9, and 1 Chronicles 14:3
----David had 6 wives and many concubines.
1 Kings 11:3
And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.
----Solomon had seven hundred wives, and if my previous comments were adhered to, which they must have since he was Solomon, then he was a busy fella making sure there was nothing diminishing.
2 Chronicles 11:21
And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore daughters.)
----Solomon's son, Rehoboam, also a busy fellow.
Isaiah 4:1
And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
----Seven women one man. They are required to marry, and it is the only way to remove their reproach.
____
Now I know what you are saying. "Brother WW, this is all Old Testament. And unless it is also in the NT, it must have been fulfilled."
I was thinking the same thing friends, but then I found these passages.
____
Matthew 19:8
He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
----Pretty sure I read wives as plural not singular there.
1 Timothy 3:2
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
1 Timothy 3:12
Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
----Why have the clarification of one wife for a Bishop or Deacon unless there was an option for more than one?
We start life at a 1:1 ratio, but between work, risk, and war more men die than women. These widows need husbands. Well if every man were doing his woman marrying and son sire-ing duties, the only way to take care of these husbandless shameful women would be to marry a married man and have her reproach removed. It is the only way they can have a good man to direct them and let them save themselves through childbearing.
Thoughts?
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