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Joseph Smith claimed he was curious why the old testament prophets had many wives and asked God about it and received the revelation on plural marriage. The old testament prophets did not have many wives. Abraham had one wife, Isaac had one wife and Jacob had two wives. Abraham had one intimate relationship with Hagar, Sarah’s handmaid and produced a son Ishmael. Isaac only had one wife and no handmaids. Jacob was tricked into marrying two daughters of Laban, his mother’s brother and they each had one handmaid that produced twelve sons and one daughter.
There are no other old testament prophets that had plural wives so what is Joseph Smith trying to tell us here? From Abraham and Jacob we see they had handmaids that produced children for the prophets. Where are the children Joseph Smith produced through what wives? The Bible tells us plainly what happened. Why doesn’t Joseph Smith tell us plainly also?
King David and King Solomon of Old Testament times committed adultery even with them having many wives, and David caused Uriah to be killed in battle by putting him in the very front line of the army. It is …show more content…

Solomon’s tolerance of his wives pagan religions led to terrible sins against God. 1 Kings 11:4-9 states, For it came to pass, when Solomon was old that his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God as was the heart of David his father, For Solomon went after Ashoreth the goddess of the Zionians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites, and Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD and went not fully after the LORD, as did David his father. Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of the children of Ammon, and likewise did he for all his foreign wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods, and the LORD was angry with

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