As I posted a couple of days ago, I have been dreading dealing with this scripture. We didn’t finish from last week, though. There’s a much bigger issue with concubinage that we didn’t cover last time, and today in part two we cover it.
As I wrote last time, this scripture just makes me angry: angry at David, angry at the flesh, angry at the world’s subversion of God’s perfect plan of one man for one woman, committed to each other for life, and becoming one. Concubinage eliminates a strong part of the commitment portion of the marriage covenant, and weakens the type found in marriage of the relationship between Christ and his Church.
We look today at the first uses of of the words “concubine” and “concubines” in the book of Genesis, and the contexts around those uses.
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