The reason for this discrepancy is likely because not all of these children survived infancy. Perhaps the most well-known polygamist of all is the wise figure of King Solomon. He is believed to have had around wives, and another concubines, or mistresses.
He is also believed to have had a relationship with the equally famous Queen of Sheba. King David and young Solomon, the haut-relief on the wall of the temple of Christ the Savior in Moscow. One of the reasons King Solomon had so many wives may have been as a result of his aggressive foreign policy. In ancient times, it was not unusual for a king to give a daughter or close female relative to another king as part of the treaty terms.
As a result, every time a treaty was sealed, Solomon may have ended up with a new wife. The conventional dates for his reign as King of Israel are roughly to BC. Depiction by Giovanni Battista Venanzi of King Solomon being led astray into idolatry in his old age by his wives, Likewise, Asentus Akuku of Kenya is reported to have had over wives, and Nigerian-born Mohammed Bello Abubakar married women in total and fathered over children.
It took an entire apartment building to house his family. By contrast, Joseph Smith's successor, Brigham Young, had marriages that were extremely well documented. With so many wives, it's almost surprising that he only had 57 children. One of Young's contemporaries wrote, "It was amusing to walk by Brigham Young's big house, a long rambling building with innumerable doors.
Each wife has an establishment of her own, consisting of parlor, bedroom, and a front door, the key of which she keeps in her pocket". First, we have Rulon Jeffs that's him on the left with two of his wives. Jeffs had wives, 27 daughters and 33 sons.
That brings us to Warren Jeffs on the right , the son who declared himself the ninth prophet of the Fundamentalist Church after his father's death. He married most of his father's widows, making him the stepfather of some of his brothers. He also married women who were close relatives, but claimed that it was necessary because as a descendant of both Joseph Smith and Jesus Christ, he needed to preserve the family bloodlines.
He believes that a man must have at least three wives to make it to heaven, but the more wives, the better. He is estimated to have somewhere between 70 and 80 wives, including Naomi, who married his year-old father when she was only He was arrested a couple of months later and charged with that, plus sexual conduct with minors and incest. He was found guilty of two counts of rape as an accomplice and sentenced to 10 years to life in prison, which he is now serving.
Now, the FLDS members know their beliefs are taboo when compared with that of most people's, so they tend to keep a low profile. He pretty much dared police to come after him, saying that marrying as many women as he wished was his constitutional right. He was convicted in for child rape and was released from prison last year.
He's still married to Linda. He has 25 children with the five wives. When the Mormons abandoned the idea of polygamy, several families, including Ervil's, moved to Mexico so they wouldn't be under United States jurisdiction. Likewise, Mormon polygamy was an exception to the eternal principle of monogamy, and it was removed when the sacrifice no longer was necessary.
What about the fact that, even today, men can be sealed to more than one woman for eternity in Latter-day Saint temples, but women generally can be sealed to only one man? I trust the voices of these women. I have ancestors who practiced polygamy, and, as their descendant, I feel both gratitude and respect for their sacrifices. Pumza Sixishe lives in South Africa, where some Christians, tribal traditionalists and Muslims practice polygamy, which is permissible. Traditionally, the first wife was accorded great respect and wielded power over the other wives, she says.
But, on a serious note, those same women friends believe that, for a strong bond to work, there has to be only one queen and one king in a relationship.
Sixishe has never understood why Mormonism instituted polygamy in the first place. This was not prophetic and Joseph got it wrong. The temple only reminds me of this mistake he made. I love the idea of what the sealing means, but the temple means less and less to me as time goes on because of this.
I prefer to stick with my baptismal covenant for the rest of my life. That one reflects how I want to serve and love as my Savior did. You could be the third wife of a dead soldier, random guy, or a boy baby who died before 8 and will be raised in the millennium.
Melissa Leilani Larson grew up as a Latter-day Saint in Hawaii, where she heard little about polygamy. As a screenwriter and playwright, Larson chose to bring it up in the best way she knows — in a theater piece. In , when there was talk of polygamy being legalized, Larson wondered if the LDS Church would embrace it again and what that might be like.
Would she be expected to participate as a single Latter-day Saint woman? The rest of the play explores their new life together, adjusting and compromising, the playwright says in her description of the play. The two women end up switching roles, Larson says. As a single person, Larson has been told repeatedly that she could be a second or third wife in the hereafter.
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By Peggy Fletcher Stack.
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