Since I've been reading lots of polygamy-denier material lately, I decided to ask, "Is polygamy of God?" I got this:
And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness (Mal. 1:3).
Esau was a polygamist, so that seems to be a "no" answer. Of course the verse immediately before it says "yet I loved Jacob," and Jacob was also a polygamist -- but the stichomantic premise is that you interpret the verse as an answer to your question, without regard for the original context.
A follow-up question, "What kind of person was Brigham Young?" got a much more on-the-nose answer:
And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart (1 Kgs. 11:3).
I'm not sure what's going on here, but it's obviously not just random chance.
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I endorse both of those answers. In this case at least, stichomancy FTW.
Given your endorsement, just for fun, I asked “What kind of person is Leo?” and got this:
“There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number” (Song of Solomon 6:8).
It seems to have become fixated on the polygamy theme even when I ask it something unrelated. Or perhaps it picked up on my “just for fun” motivation and responded in kind?
I guess I have to take the bad with the good but I can’t say I understand that one. I’m vehemently opposed to concubines and such.
I don’t understand it, either. The odds against getting one of the only other verses in the Bible to mention large numbers of wives and concubines are astronomical, so it seems like it should mean something. A joke? A reference to a past life?
For what it’s worth, the next line is, “My dove, my undefiled is but one.”
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