Polygamy
And he had two wives; the name of the one [was] Hannah, and
the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but
Hannah had no children....
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po-lig'-a-mi:
1. Meaning of the Term
2. Origin of Polygamy
3. The Old Testament and Polygamy
4. Polygamy Unnatural
The Eunuch
5. Weakness of Polygamy
1. Meaning of the Term:
Polygamy has been and is the open blazon by the human race
of sex vice. The very term is a misnomer. Since man became
moralized he has apprehended that the proper marriage
r...
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Forbidden
De 17:17; Le 18:18; Mal 2:14,15; Mt 19:4,5; Mr 10:2-
8; 1Ti
3:2,12; Tit 1:6
-Authorized
2Sa 12:8
-Tolerated
Ex 21:10; 1Sa 1:2; 2Ch 24:3
-Practiced by
Job 27:15
-Lamech
Ge 4:19
-Abraham
Ge 16
-Esau
Ge 26:34; 28:9
-Jacob
Ge 29:30
-Ashur
1Ch 4:5
-Gideon
Jud 8:30
-Elkanah
1Sa 1:2
-David
1Sa 25:39-44; 2Sa 3:2-5; 5:13; 1...
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Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart
turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself
silver and gold....
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Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex [her], to
uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life [time]....
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Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness
between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast
dealt treacherously: yet [is] she thy companion, and the wife
of thy covenant....
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And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit.
And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore
take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously
against the wife of his youth....
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And I gave thee thy master's house, and thy master's wives
into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of
Judah; and if [that had been] too little, I would moreover
have given unto thee such and such things....
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If he take him another [wife]; her food, her raiment, and her
duty of marriage, shall he not diminish....
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Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his
widows shall not weep....
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