Polygamy
109Absalom
14 Mar 2022
5:39¶ 19
“Not too long after (2 Samuel 13) David has two older boys. One is named Absalom by one wife, and the other is named…”
6:38¶ 21
“So he has these wives, and of course as in all harems there’s competition, jockeying for power and favoritism, so these boys already don’t…”
25:49¶ 92
“Ahithophel says, “Oh, it’s easy. Your father left some of his concubines behind to tend the house.” Again, a concubine is not a mistress.…”
97Ruth and Boaz
20 Dec 2021
30:54¶ 125
“You mean the whole bigamy thing? Yeah. The Old Testament, as far as I can see, never approves of bigamy, but it does recognize…”
31:37¶ 126
“Were he to send one packing, that would leave her without resources, without fallback, without a visible means of support. She probably would have…”
31:57¶ 127
“When we get to the New Testament we see this being worked out. When Paul gives orders concerning such things, he says that the…”
20A Bond in Blood
17 May 2020
35:52¶ 128
“I think with polygamy nowadays, people think, “Oh, that was the Old Testament. It was okay then.” No, it was not. There was a…”
36:01¶ 130
“Which is only hammered home by the multiple times that polygamy complicated everything and ruined people.”
36:10¶ 131
“Every now and then I’ll try to remember to count up all the cases of polygamy in the Old Testament. You have Abraham. You…”