Don't Judge a Person by Externals

Throw away "Checking the boxes" and accept a person's heart.

Several prominent men in the Old Testament were polygamists.

Abraham (Genesis 25:1), Jacob (Genesis 30:14-15), David (2 Samuel 5:13; 1 Chronicles 3:1-9),  Solomon (1 Kings 11:3), and other Hebrew leaders all took for themselves many wives.

King Solomon,  the man the Bible calls "wiser than all men" (I Kings 4:31), had  "700 wives and 300 concubines." Solomon's son, Rehoboam, had 18 wives and 60 concubines.

Invariably during a Bible study of a book from the Old Testament, someone will ask me a question about polygamy.

A casual reading of  Old Testament Scriptures (Genesis through Malachi) leaves the impression that men having multiple wives and concubines was not an act God prohibited or censored. Polygamy even seems to be something God allowed.  

Old Testament Culture

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