- God tells Solomon that he likes him so darned much (he likes murderers and polygamists) that
he's going to make him the richest man who has ever lived.
1:11
- Solomon's Egyptian wife can't be around holy places. Is that because she is a woman or because she is an Egyptian, or
both?
8:11
- Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines."
11:21
- "He took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines."
11:21
- "Rehoboam ... dealt wisely ... and desired many wives."
11:22
- "But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives." Apparently, in the eyes of God, a man's status is
determined by the number of wives that he possesses.
13:21
- "Jehoiada took for him two wives" -- without comment, complaint, or criticism from the bible.
24:3