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‘Show Me Polygamy In The Bible’: Here It Is! 1.“If he marries another woman, he must not deprive the first one of her food, clothing and marital rights.”-Exodus 21:10. 2.“If a man has two wives, and he loves one but not the other, and both bear him sons but the firstborn is the son of the wife he does not love, when he wills his property to his sons, he must not give the rights of the firstborn to the son of the wife he loves in preference to his actual firstborn, the son of the wife he does not love.”-Deuteronomy 21:15-16.
3.“When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and also Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.”-Genesis 26:34.
4.“Jacob made love to Rachel also, and his love for Rachel was greater than his love for Leah. And he worked for Laban another seven years.” Genesis 29:30
5.“Abigail quickly got on a donkey and, attended by her five female servants, went with David’s messengers and became his wife.
David had also married Ahinoam of Jezreel, and they both were his wives. But Saul had given his daughter Michal, David’s wife, to Paltiel son of Laish, who was from Gallim.”-1 Samuel 25:42-44. 6.“Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.”-1 Chronicles 4:5. Another instance of polygamy is Gideon. Scripture says Gideon was called by God in Judges 6:11, which says “The LORD is with you, O mighty man of valor.” Now, this man whom the ‘Lord was with’, was a polygamist. We see this in Judges 8:20, which says “Gideon had seventy sons of his own, since he had MANY WIVES.”
Take the case of Abijah. Scripture describes him in 2 Chronicles 13:10 as a man who did not forsake God, and in 2 Chronicles 13:11, he is described as a man who carried out “the requirements of the LORD our God.” Yet, he had many wives. We see this in 2 Chronicles 13:21: “Abijah grew strong, married fourteen wives.” In the case of King Joash, he was a minor when he became king. So he was out under the regency of priests (incidentally, the man who challenged me is himself a priest).
Now, it was the leading priest of God, a man called Jehoiada, who himself selected two wives for the young King Joash. And Scripture described Joash as doing “what was right in the eyes of the Lord”. We see this in 2 Chronicles 24:1-3: “Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother’s name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba. Joash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord all the years of Jehoiada the priest. Jehoiada chose two wives for him, and he had sons and daughters.” What about David, who was given his own wives, not by a priest; but by God Himself? We see that in 2 Samuel 12:8: “I gave your master’s house to you, and your master’s wives into your arms. I gave you all Israel and Judah. And if all this had been too little, I would have given you even more.”
The fact of the matter is that some people are taking dogmas of their church denomination and passing it off as scriptural doctrines. Scripture was not written in English. It was written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek. For instance, many people take Christ’s words in Matthew 19:5 as being against polygamy. That verse says in English: “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? However, the actual Koine Greek word used there is gynaiki. That word does not actually mean wife.
It actually means woman. That word itself is a Koine Greek translation of the Hebrew word bə·’iš·tōw. Scripture does forbid polygamy. But ONLY for Bishops and elders, as we see in 1 Timothy 3:2: “A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife”.
I do not recommend polygamy. But that is my opinion. That is not Scripture. Reno Omokri Gospeller. Business Insider Magazine’s Business Influencer or the Year, 2022. Deep Thinker. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Avid traveller.
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