forever.” In the case of Solomon, the second point, one can acknowledge this a clear case of polygamy. Solomon was one of the many Old Testaments characters having had more than one wife, nevertheless, the addition of a third person does not fit God’s original model of marriage. It is course true that it was a worldly custom, in patriarchal times, and in the days of the Kingdom of Israel, for kings and wealthy men to take plural wives. A harem was one of the symbols of royalty. But God prohibited polygamy for the kings of Israel. God’s law in the Old Testament, Deuteronomy 17:14, 17 “When you enter the land which the LORD your God gives you, and you possess it and live in it, and you say, ‘I will set a king over me, like all the nations who are around me, He shall not multiply wives for himself, or else his heart will turn away; nor shall he greatly increase silver and gold for himself.” The Bible
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From the very beginning God set the pattern by creating a monogamous marriage relationship- one man and one woman, Adam and Eve (Genesis 1:27; 2:21-25). The same Godly pattern of one man and one wife is lived in by Noah. At the time of the Ark (Genesis 7:7), Noah took his one wife into the ark, all his son’s took one wife; God called Noah’s family righteous and pure. Therefore, God had instructed beforehand his declaration of a marriage covenant of one husband and one wife. The New Testament is very clear that Christian should not have more than one wife at a time. Reason being, Paul’s teaching explains the covenant in 1 Corinthians 7:2, which states, “But because of immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband. Furthermore, according to Hebrews 13:4, Marriages are to hold in honor among all, and the marriage bed is to be undefiled; fornicators and adulters God will judge. The third point, one is recognized as a servant of God, because he is our one and only
From the very beginning God set the pattern by creating a monogamous marriage relationship- one man and one woman, Adam and Eve (Genesis 1:27; 2:21-25). The same Godly pattern of one man and one wife is lived in by Noah. At the time of the Ark (Genesis 7:7), Noah took his one wife into the ark, all his son’s took one wife; God called Noah’s family righteous and pure. Therefore, God had instructed beforehand his declaration of a marriage covenant of one husband and one wife. The New Testament is very clear that Christian should not have more than one wife at a time. Reason being, Paul’s teaching explains the covenant in 1 Corinthians 7:2, which states, “But because of immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband. Furthermore, according to Hebrews 13:4, Marriages are to hold in honor among all, and the marriage bed is to be undefiled; fornicators and adulters God will judge. The third point, one is recognized as a servant of God, because he is our one and only