{"id":1713,"date":"2017-05-03T01:10:31","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T01:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/2017\/05\/03\/is-polygamy-biblical-truth-or-historical-2\/"},"modified":"2017-05-03T01:10:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T01:10:31","slug":"is-polygamy-biblical-truth-or-historical-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/2017\/05\/03\/is-polygamy-biblical-truth-or-historical-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Polygamy Biblical Truth or Historical?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2 Samuel<br \/>\n5 \u2013 9<\/p>\n<p>Verses 5:13 &amp; 16 show David in a different light:<\/p>\n<p><sup>13-14\u00a0<\/sup>After<br \/>\nthe move from Hebron <i>to Jerusalem,<\/i> David married more women from<br \/>\nJerusalem, took more concubines, and fathered more sons and daughters: Shammua,<br \/>\nShobab, Nathan, Solomon, <sup>15\u00a0<\/sup>Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia, <sup>16\u00a0<\/sup>Elishama,<br \/>\nEliada, and Eliphelet.<\/p>\n<p>David may have been mighty and walking with<br \/>\nGod but he had the \u201cthing\u201d for the ladies, that we shall see will be his<br \/>\ndownfall. Two as one has always been the pattern since Genesis 2 and Adam and<br \/>\nEve. For some reason a few look at actions of Abraham, Joseph, David and<br \/>\nSolomon to say polygamy is ok. Sorry but that is not how God designed us from<br \/>\nday 6, just because it\u2019s in the Bible does not make it a Biblical Truth we all<br \/>\nmust live by.<\/p>\n<p>One other thing I noticed from this verse<br \/>\nis the mention of Solomon and the absence of Absalom. I have to wonder<br \/>\nsometimes about the historical accuracy of some of these sections and ask why<br \/>\nsome sons were missed.<\/p>\n<p>Verses 6:15 &amp; 16 caught my end:<\/p>\n<p>So David and the<br \/>\nhouse of Israel carried the covenant chest of the Eternal One up to the city of<br \/>\nDavid with shouts and the sounding of the trumpet. When Michal, the daughter of<br \/>\nSaul, looked out the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the<br \/>\nEternal <i>without thought for how he looked,<\/i> she hated him.<\/p>\n<p>This is what I like about David; he does<br \/>\nwhat he feels like. If he is so happy that he cannot control his joy for the<br \/>\nLord, then he only worries about God and not what people think here on earth.<br \/>\nInterestingly Michal is the last hope for Saul\u2019s bloodline to be heir to the<br \/>\nthrone and God ended that as she chastised David.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly that is the way we should all be<br \/>\nwhen worshiping God, with no regard to earthly opinions. I know it has taken a<br \/>\nlong time for me to be comfortable just raising my hands in church, but that is<br \/>\nalmost a half a century of believing worship is private. My anal-retentive ways<br \/>\nwould find it difficult to dance like David in church or out. The key is I don\u2019t<br \/>\njudge or get mad at those who do, I think it\u2019s cool!!<\/p>\n<p>Chapter 9 has the story of Mephibosheth,<br \/>\nJonathan (Saul\u2019s son) son. He was crippled and allowed to get Saul\u2019s<br \/>\ninheritance and spend his life in the palace. That was kind of David and shows<br \/>\nhe honors those who ruled before him. Think about it he was a subject of Saul<br \/>\nwhen he was anointed king by Samuel and yet he did not seize the throne by<br \/>\nforce. He continued to honor the king even after his death.<\/p>\n<p>David was a class act less his thing with the<br \/>\nwomen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 Samuel 5 \u2013 9 Verses 5:13 &amp; 16 show David in a different light: 13-14\u00a0After the move from Hebron to Jerusalem, David married more women from Jerusalem, took more concubines, and fathered more sons and daughters: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, 15\u00a0Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia, 16\u00a0Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet. David may have been mighty and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/2017\/05\/03\/is-polygamy-biblical-truth-or-historical-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is Polygamy Biblical Truth or Historical?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}