Multiplication of wives would lead to sensuality, and so to an apostasy no less fatal in effect than downright idolatry . This rule, like the other…

Deuteronomy 17:14–20. THE LAW OF THE KINGDOM.

When you come to the land. These are not the words of a …

Neither shall he multiply wives to himself. Polygamy at that time had generally been prevalent, so that even the most humble of the people…

Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart
turn not away
From attendi…

God Himself was in a particular manner Israel's King; and if they set another over them, it was necessary that He should choose the person. Accordi…