I was told by a preacher it was wrong for a man to have more than one wife?

Question

can someone point it out in the bible were it says a man can not have more then one wife solomon had more then one david had more then one and abraham had more then one

Answer 1

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Bible does not prohibit it.


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Answer 2

There is no where in the bible saying: "Having more then 1 wife is wrong".

Your preacher told you a lie like always.
Polygamy might be illegal in the country you living in, but that have nothing to do with the bible.

Adam talked about one wife because there was only one woman on earth according to the story.

Tell me what happen when earth start having a lot of women? Even the sons of God took some wives between the women they chose.(Genesis 6:1-2)

Answer 3

The Bible never really states that it is wrong to have more than one wife. I'm sure many will point out adultery, but adultery is going outside of a marriage. If you're married to 20 women, you are not going outside of your marriage.
And Killing is somewhat different than taking on several women as wives. True, David did kill, but then it is said that God considered David after his own heart too. In the bible, it's perfectly alright when God's people kill when God wants them to. It was also alright for Abraham to take on Sarah's handmaiden. There is nothing in the bible that shows he was punished for such an act.

Answer 4

1 Timmothy 3:2
1 Timmothy 3:12
1 Corinthians 7:2

Answer 5

The preacher is wrong...Not only did those of the Old Testament have multiple wives, but if you read Jeremiah 3 you will find that God himself had two wives and has divorced one of them.
In Jesus' parable of the ten Virgins, there were five who went in with the bride groom (singular) the bride groom is Jesus and the five virgins are those who have accepted Jesus as Lord. I don't remember right now who the five represent but it still boils down to the fact that Jesus has five wives whom are the churched people.

Polygamy is still practiced in some parts of the world today. But it was emperor Constantine we have to thank for monogamous marriage because he outlawed multiple wives in Rome about 1500 years ago. Men could have only one wife but have as many female slaves as he could afford.

I tend to agree with whynotaskdon Christian polygamy is a good thing...this is NOT Mormon polygamy which is forced.

Answer 6

"After he left Hebron, David took more concubines and wives in Jerusalem, and more sons and daughters were born to him."
2 Samuel 5:13

"He (Solomon) had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines..."
1 Kings 11:3

"And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah."
Genesis 4:19

"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 first-born son be hers that was hated: then it shall be, when he maketh..."
Deuteronomy 21:15

"If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall her not diminish."
Exodus 21:10

Answer 7

Jehovah is not the the originator of polygamy. He gave Adam just one wife. Later Lamech, a descendant of Cain, took two wives himself.(GEN 4.19) In time others imitated his example, and some took slave girls as concubines. God tolerated the practice, and under the Mosaic Law he even instituded measures to assure proper treatment of women who had such relationship. He did this until the Christian congregation was established, but then he required that his servants return to the standard that he himself had instituted in Eden.
As for Abraham he took Sarai (Sarah) as his wife. When she was about 75 years of age and thought she would never bear child, she requested her husband to have relations with her maidservant so that Sarai could have a legal child by means of her. Abraham did so, but it led to serious friction in his household.( Gen 16. 1-4) Jehovah fulfill his promise to Abraham regarding a "seed" by later miraculously causing Sarah herself to become pregnant.(Gen 18. 9-14) It was not until after Sarahs death that Abraham took another wife.-Gen 23.2;25.1)
Jacob became a polygamist because of deception on the part of his father in law. It was not what Jacob had in mind when he went to seek a wife in Pad'dan-a'ram". The Bible record tells in considerable detail about the unhappy rivalry between the wives. -Gen 29.18-30.24
It is well known that Salomon had many wives as well as concubines. But not everywhere is aware that, in doing so, he was violating Jehovahs clearly started commandment that the king "should also not multiply wives for himself, that his heart may not turn aside."(Deut. 17.17) It should also be noted that, because of the influence of his foreign wives, Salomon turned to the worship of false gods and "began to do what was bad in the eyes of Jehovah... And Jehovah came to be incensed at Salomon." 1Ki 11.1-9.

Answer 8

Genesis 2:22-25

The Lord God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and btought her to the man...The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; She shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man."

FOR THIS REASON, a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife and they shall become one flesh.

It was God's plan for us to only have one wife/husband. He ordained it when He created woman.
In the next passage (chapt. 3) the fall of man takes place, and in chapter 4 we see where Lamech, a descendent of Cain...perverted God's plan, and in his pride he took two wives, Adah and Zillah. He gave an extremely arrogant speech to his wives detailed in v.23-24 giving you a little insight to the character of this man who took it upon himself to write the rules.

It's also interesting to note that nothing good came out of the descendants of Cain, they were all destroyed by the flood. Now, from Adam and Eve's third son, Seth who remained faithful to the Living God, and out of Seth came Enoch (who walked with God, and then was not, for God took him) and Methuselah, the longest living man (969 years), and Noah, who along with his family were the only survivors of the flood. A little off base, but interesting no less.

Answer 9

Give me a break. If it was okay for someone to have more than one wife/husband, there wouldn't be any need for marriage in the first place.

Answer 10

Look in Genesis. God made one man and one woman.