1st Chronicles Chapter 14 verse 3 Holy Bible
And David took more wives at Jerusalem; and David begat more sons and daughters.
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And while he was living in Jerusalem, David took more wives and became the father of more sons and daughters.
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And David took more wives at Jerusalem: and David begot more sons and daughters.
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And David took more wives at Jerusalem: and David begat more sons and daughters.
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And David took more wives at Jerusalem: and David begat more sons and daughters.
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David took more wives at Jerusalem; and David became the father of more sons and daughters.
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And David taketh again wives in Jerusalem, and David begetteth again sons and daughters;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - David took more wives. As matter of course, we do not look in this connection for any remarks to be made by the writer condemnatory of David's enlargement of the harem, or of his having an harem at all. Yet it is open to us to note how, at a time when polygamy was "winked at," and no sin was necessarily to lie on this account at the door of David, yet by this very thing he was undermining the peace and unity of his own family, the comfort of his declining years once and again, and the very stability of his house in the days of Solomon his son. The less necessitated we are to regard David's polygamy in the light of individual sin, the more emphatic in the light of history does the tendency of the practice proclaim itself as thoroughly and irredeemably bad.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) And David took more wives.--The verse is considerably abbreviated as compared with Samuel, which reads, "concubines and wives from Jerusalem, after he had come from Hebron." The concubines are not omitted because of offence, for they are mentioned in 1Chronicles 3:9.
