Your comment shows your lack of education and ignorance. The prophet had 1 whife for much of his adult like until she died then married divorces converts and widows. The quran say marry up to 4 but if u cant do justice and man cannot then marry only 1. There was no welfare system in that time. Get some education.
Rabbi I'm learning Hebrew its amazing how deep like when hashem says no other gods beside my face it's so different I'm glad I started to learn some bruach hashem
So even endowed with the wisest head on the planet...a gift from God ....he still couldnt work out that all these women was going to end in trouble! Something doesn't add up here!
There are about 19 verses in the Quran about Solomon. Allah swt gave both David PBUH and Solomon PBUH great knowledge and wisdom Quran 27:15 We gave (in the past) knowledge to David and Solomon: And they both said: "Praise be to Allah, Who has favoured us above many of his servants who believe!" Thank you Rabbi for your response to the question you are awesome
@@justaguy1212You could say that Holy Books of Abrahamic fait is trilogy. Book one: Torah Book two: Bible* Book three: Qur'an (*Paul teachings not included)
He would have had his harem grooming him, more than one women at a time, and probably let his rich mates enjoy his errotic parties( im just being real/ not looking through religious eyes that are blinded to truth) the girls were probably expected to enjoy each other .... yes just like a playboy mansion.... come on people see it for what it really is..... he could not have emotional relationships with all if them ... but he could sleep with a group of them at once
@@sweetheart-kt5vn for realz give or take maybe back then there were more hrs in a day remember life span been cut short so it's possible it could have been more hrs in a day but realistically being real he had a lust problem too and he was more than just the king he was king ding a ling yuppppp and those 700 wives and 300 pilglesh was lovin it with open arms lol so it had to been real good😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
I love the way you retell these stories. I know your passion is getting through truth out about Tanakh being raped by the Christian New Testament but I greatly appreciate all these little nuggets you share. I would love to see you write lessons like this on all of the Tanakh for those of us who aren't Jewish but want to know from the real original Jewish perspective and understanding. I have so much respect for the Jewish Tanakh because of your videos. You are a gifted teacher and I hope to see you continue to share more of these. Thank you so long. 🙏
@Samuel Byron The nice thing about open forums in this sort of subject is that it shows where the minds of people are, in the gutter. Your Freudian slip is showing.
@@Atbay8 The nice thing about open forums in this sort of subject is that it shows where the minds of people are, in the gutter. Your Freudian slip is showing.
I don’t think so. There are 195 countries in the world today and there would have been much fewer in Solomon’s day. Your theory falls flat. Maybe he just loved women .
Alfred Andrews, Please explain how 2 words, > the name, became defined as, > HaShem?? In other words, HaShem IS defined, MEANS, the name. IF I ask You OR anyone of the name worshipers what is the name of the Park in front of the White House in Washington D.C. will you HaShem worshipers say the park in front of the White House is HaShem?? Do ya get my drift?? I will answer for You. NO!!
@@FrankNStein-pf9rr first, let me respond by saying that you are asking about a foreign language that you are baseless about. Ignorance answers before inquiring. I can assure you that I have forgotten more than you will ever know about this subject. But please do go ahead and respond. I only do ONE shot across the bow…
@@alfredandrews3124 U have assured me that U R A fool and A charlatan. Only fools & charlatans know and understand everything.” - Anton Chekhov As far as Your ONE shot across the bow, it was a cheap shot made by an unstable & unlearned KNOW IT ALL!
@@alfredandrews3124 What Hebrew word IN the Tenach is translated > HaShem, or MEANS HaShem? And SPARKY!! Tell me this. IF the name of the self-existing, ETERNAL CREATOR is HaShem, THEN WHY do we have YHWH-YHVH?? WHO is that or who are THEY?? Hey CUPID!! DRAW BACK YOUR BOW & SHOOT!
Susan Simpson: Solomon married them continuosly for political peace, but not real peace, as the Tenach teaches civil war came to Israel after Solomon's death. It calculates out to a marriage every 2 weeks. No marital love was in such marriages as they were political and no children from these women are listed either except for Rehoboam who was born 1 year before Solomon became king.
Reply to Matt Vinci - So what...? King David had SEVEN wives, and ‘many’ concubines. King Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines. Those are biblical facts, and *nothing* you’ve said refutes any of it...!
Reply to Matt Vinci - lol I have no doubt that *YOU’D* be happily burning people at the stake who disagreed with you and your agenda, IF you could. still laffin’
Concerning a Godly king: "When you come to the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and possess it and dwell in it, and say, ‘I will set a king over me like all the nations that are around me,’ 15 you shall surely set a king over you whom the Lord your God chooses; one from among your brethren you shall set as king over you; you may not set a foreigner over you, who is not your brother. 16 But he shall not multiply horses for himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt to multiply horses, for the Lord has said to you, ‘You shall not return that way again'. 17 Neither shall he multiply wives for himself, lest his heart turn away; nor shall he greatly multiply silver and gold for himself. 18 “Also it shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write for himself a copy of this law in a book, from the one before the priests, the Levites. 19 And it shall be with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God and be careful to observe all the words of this law and these statutes, 20 that his heart may not be lifted above his brethren, that he may not turn aside from the commandment to the right hand or to the left, and that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children in the midst of Israel". ~ Deuteronomy 17 So, no amassing of horses, no multiplying of wives, and no excessive accumulating of silver and gold. These commands were designed to prevent the king from trusting in military might, following foreign God's, and relying on wealth instead of on God. In modern times, a President, Premier, or Prime Minister, seeking to be a Godly leader is faced with abiding by this instruction.
In terms Of Solomon's gold, I don't see this as violating the Law. He brought the gold in for the benefit of the Kingdom, not just himself, and he didn't necessarily greatly multiply it, depending on what you views as greatly.
Daniel Robertson in a way i wish God was/is a female goddess......something to fantasize about despite it being impossible to get. Like a usa supermodel hee hee. Queen of Queens....
The real lesson that no one is above the law, Moses paid the price, so did David, and Solomon. And all these wishiwoshi explanations don’t hold any water.
The Bible is clear in 1 Kings 11 and there is no respect of Persons with the “God of Gods” in Deuteronomy 10:17 and He cannot be bribed. All the promises to True Biblical Israel were fulfilled as it is written in the word.
The practicality of one man having so many “wives” (700) and “concubines” (300) and meeting their needs is questionable. More than likely many were nominal wives, wives in name only, enjoyed the benevolence of the king but with whom the king had little or no conjugal relations.
This is just a thought. Did they come with the wives such as the handmaidens came with Leah and Rachel. They were there from the same city to help out these ladies of upper-class. And Jacob slept with handmaidens. What's the difference between that and a Concubine.This idea is really more of a question
The 'Jewish' term wasn't yet invented when king Solomon reigned, so 'conversion of wives to judaism' couldn't take place yet. By marriage, they immediately became one of the tribe.
Even im muslim,im also feel offended when people insulted prophet Solomon for having many wives.. Its a political matter and his speciality as a prophet.. Women from every tribes deserved to marry a man called prophet..
King Solomon greatness in Islam were, 1- he can understand and talk to everything that's mean birds, stones, animals Etc. 2- he has the ruling hand over the jinny & devils and commending them. 3- he has the winds at his commends. 4- A river of copper. and the reason why he married so many, because he wanted to build an armies, so he spread the monotheism, that's why he has river of copper to build weapons and the wind to carry them. PS : am not going against jewdisom, just share information and learn.
The scriptures takes pains to number the 'wives' at 700, and the 'concubines' at 300. Rabbi Singer conveniently combines this grand total all into the wives category, thus conveniently dodging the 'concubine' element of what is obviously a two-part question.
God condemned David and Salomon having these wives and concubines because they corrupted the Jewish faith in God. Every man must have one wife and only , like God and His people.
@@fidneusdiller2486 No it is not, at least if the concubinage relationship is it was supposed to be. e.g. No less than 30 days relationship, there is to be an agreement of obligations & rights, some say written agreement, between the 2, automatically renewed unless agreed by both to terminate, 30 days notice for termination is required.
6:08 And [mention] David and Solomon, when they judged concerning the field - when the sheep of a people overran it [at night], and We were witness to their judgement. We guided ˹young˺ Solomon to a fairer settlement, and granted each of them wisdom and knowledge. We subjected the mountains as well as the birds to hymn ˹Our praises˺ along with David. It is We Who did ˹it all˺. And We taught him the fashioning of coats of armor to protect you from your [enemy in] battle. So will you then be grateful? And to Solomon [We subjected] the wind, blowing forcefully, proceeding by his command toward the land which We had blessed. And We are ever, of all things, Knowing. And of the devils were those who dived for him and did work other than that. And We were of them a guardian. SURAH Al-Anbiya 21.78-82 (Surah The Prophets) 21.78-82
The Rabbi has forgotten the Tenach verses that say his wives took him away from worship of Elohim. He started out well, but he was not 12 years old, otherwise there would be a regent appointed for him until he came to be about 20. He must have been 20 because the Tenach says he died after 40 years as king and his son Rehoboam was 41 years old when he became king. So Rehoboam was born 1 year before Solomon was king.
Intersting that the passage about too many wives for a king is right after the issue of not returning to Egypt. And the miscalculation was in taking an Egyptian wife who was set in her idolatrous ways.
Solomon was Sinning Plain Simple. God never told Solomon to have many wives. He was given over to his lust. He was given over to his sins and did not repent until his later days of his life and then written the letter Ecclesiastes. God never told David not have many wife. God say it plainly one wife only. Both David and Solomon were sinning.
According to the Bible, it is also allowed but most christians dont follow the bible but more her own laws. Martin Luther says it is allowed and not forbiden after the bible although he restricts it for rulers and when it does not cause a scandal.
Martin Luther's restrictions do not matter. God in His word allows it period for a Man as long as they can afford to feed - clothe and provide shelter for each wife.
@@faith1614certainly. There are hundreds of Scriptures that say a average layman Male may do so and zero that say that the average layman Male may not. The one I referenced is : _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ This is what the Lord says. : Exodus 21:10 If any married man takes a second wife, he must only see to it that he continue to give his first wife the same amount of food - clothing - shelter and the same marriage rights that she had before. - God i.e Jesus _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 Timothy 6:8 If you have food and clothes, that should be enough for you and with these you should always be content. - God i.e Jesus
@@SherrickDuncan 1 Timothy 6:8 is not talking about having multiple wives. You can’t use isolated verses to fit your point without referring to the whole context of the chapter. That is what i want scriptures on please. Multiple wives. Thanks.
That time no rule about limitation number of wife, Islam came to limit up to 4, but if u can't do justice between wife, MARRY ONLY ONE !! The only religious book on earth ...
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Dear rabbi, was there thousands countries around solomon country, how many times did see his wife's, how many children, is it fair to the wife to see her husband 10 times in life time, physically and emotionally he was absent husband. Even strongest man can not have thousand wife's. It is extremely hard almost impossible to do so.who pay for wife's, people in country, or he inherited a mountain of golds. I am very serious. I want to know the answer to it. God bless you.
God blessed and told him to be fruitful and multiply. His seed would be huge within the population of the world. Q: Curious to ask why did he build a temple in Egypt for the Lord God?
A group of Rabbi's met a few years back, and they decided a Man can have two wives if he can provide for them. He's supposed to provide separate housing, & there are other rules to it also.
King Solomon is perhaps fhe wisest man the world ever produced. But, he got one thousand priblems too. Imagine having 1,000 mother-in-laws? Chuckles...
Funny explanation. Simple answer is due to temptation nothing to do with keeping peace with neighbouring kings. Assuming one wife represents one neighbouring king... so 1000 wives means there were 1000 neighbouring kings around Israel at tat time. This does not sound realistic for an area smaller than China or India. Suppose that he had a great wisdom, was there no other way to keep peace.... if this is the case, then the wisdom tgat King Solomon had was not that great, as claimed in yhe bible. Tge truth is this, no matter how wise a man or woman is, if he or she is unable to control his or her basic instincts, then the wisdom will be quite meaningless. In the case of King Solomon, although he was very wise, the wisdom cannot control his basic instincts. He should ask one more thing other than wisdom, that should be tge ability to resist temptation.
It was common practise of Near East to have so many women as you could. In fact Solomon was obliged to have so big "garem" because he was prominent ruler in region. It is clear that 300 and 700 are symbolic numbers. Rabbie's had forbidden poligamy only during middle ages. In written Torah by itself polygamy wasn't forbidden.
"Ia berkata: Ya Tuhanku, ampunilah aku dan anugerahilah kepadaku kerajaan yang tidak dimiliki oleh seseorangpun sesudahku." (QS. Shad: 35) . siapapun yang menghaku sebagai pewaris kerajaan Nabi Sulaiman ,dan berjuang membangunya kembali ,maka telah gagal paham :) #IslamsaveIsrael peopel
So sad all of holy books have criticized the prophets and why Quran is the only book who respects and taught to respect every messenger of God there Good deeds and their original wording are so meaningful and true
Salomon was a the wisest man ever. But as all humans, we tend to fall astray at some point. Salomon reached perfection to God. Also he went astray all the way. So as far as Salomon, your were either in total light or in total darkness. He wasn’t in between. Yet, only God knows why people go through the things we do.
Phillip Solesky No not at all. Abraham m, Isaac and Jacob all had multiple wives. Jews at least those residing in Europe only stopped having multiple wives during the Middle Ages with the enactment of Rabbeinu Gershom a later Rabbinic and not Biblical proscription.
Polygamy is a sin. Polygamy teachers are sinners. Abraham, Jacob, and David repented. Deuteronomy 17:17 KJV Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
@@silverrush2508 Jacob buried Rachel along the side of a road. Jacob buried Leah with Abraham and his wife Sarah and Isaac and his wife Rebecca. Polygamy was a sin in the Old Testament.
P.S... King David did not have 18 wives,but he had 8 wives and 10 concubines...In Hebrew culture,concubines are not considered to be wives....Jeesh!...That's all...Shalom
Ugh 😩 so right wives means eight legal inheritors but only Solomon got the kingdom 🤣😁🤔😕🧐🤨😝😜🤪😛 and legal inheritance bahaha Bahahahaha , rest were concubinal children.....
Bahahahaha king hath no royal ride but donkey 🐴🐴 are u making others donkey 🐴 lmao.... And u tend to say that David's royal ride was a donkey 🐴😹 Bahahahaha Bahahahaha......... Some one's following the asses.... You don't seem to belong from David's tribe but rather from his opponents who is annoyed that he bequeathed kingdom to Solomon and not to other kids .... Lmao 🤣🤨🧐😂😁🤔
Deut. 17:17 says, "Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold." If Rabbi agrees with this English translation, this verse means that even a king should not have more than one wife. This verse also implies that a king should not use his own power to gain too much wealth. If a king has already had one wife, even having the second wife means that he has multiplied his wife. If he has many wives, he has multiplied greatly his wife. Both cases are not allowed by God. But a king is allowed to multiply silver and gold, but is not allowed to multiply greatly silver and gold. This is the justice law of God. If Solomon would multiply greatly his wife for the purpose of the peace, as Rabbi suggested, his wisdom is not from God but from his own. In this way, he did evil against God even if he would be a great prophet and had written great scriptures. If Solomon would not have repented of his sins in his late life, he would not be saved.
It does not say multiple wives. You would know that if you could read hebrew. It says not have many wives and yes we have a limit. You have a horrible translation of deuteronomy
Even Rehoboam his son was not 100% jew because his mother was an Ammonitess. I shook my head reading the book of Kings when the kingdom was slowly rent because of idolatry from his wives.
@SheepOfChrist818 ecclesiastes i thinkl, something about the best of men the gbest of women, and i was like whoooooooooooooooooa tou topped lot not pun, isnt it shabbat?
Absolutely I don't share your point of view, that man didn’t trust in the Lord IF that was the reason(s). Obviously, he had no morals. He wasn’t doing what the Lord Almighty Told him to do. He was preaching something and living in immorality.
Besides that, how many countries were surrounding Israel in those days? No more than four. I am not saying this to criticize him. I am saying this to make sense of his behavior and immorality. The Lord Always has been able to protect and provide for Israel, he didn’t need foreign women or many wives to empower himself! The only things we can to are: Obey and Respect The Lord. Nothing else, No one can tell he/she loves God if such a person doesn’t obey nor respect Him. Don’t judge me wrong, I love Salomon, pieces of advice, they are all wonderful and useful. I want and I need to practice, believe and enforce them in my daily living, but I want and I need to stay away from his life examples.
These were not all wives and concubines in the way you are describing. Many of these women were well cared for but were. "political wives" ..... but there were obvious issues that the Rabbi only began to discuss in this short video.
What a wrong reason he had so many wives. Greater men such as Alexander the great, or Julius Caesar had far less wives, concubines and lovers and their kingdoms were enormous. By contrast, Solomon had a tiny kingdom and more wives.
Rabbi Singer, for Solomon to marry a woman, her father needed to agree to the marriage. What was the reason the neighboring kings agreed to all those marriages of Solomon's ? Also - Solomon's children were not Jewish?
The Rabbi explains man's solution for peace in the empire, and not that God centered, because Solomon catered to making idols compatible w the wives religion etc.? Hebrews were forbidden to intermarriage w the heathen. The Bible relates that all have sinned, and likely making a point that even the wisest man succumbed? This is one of the reasons for God's announcement that He would divide Israel into 2 nations, after Solomon?
Peace be upon king Solomon
@Iyas kelu I hope you go to hell
@Iyas kelu may God bless you
@Iyas kelu so you're one of those....
Lying Hypocrite Hate Preachers
@@haikalsafrisam7818 lol
God ain't Unjust nor Stupid enough to do that
Your comment shows your lack of education and ignorance. The prophet had 1 whife for much of his adult like until she died then married divorces converts and widows. The quran say marry up to 4 but if u cant do justice and man cannot then marry only 1. There was no welfare system in that time. Get some education.
1005 mother in laws and countless credit card bills...oy vey!
And 1005 times PMS/PMT to have to dodge...
One thousand five problems too. Chuckles...
Thought he said 1,012. Maybe I misheard
Question is : did Solomon make love To All of Them ... ??? 😀 If He did ... How many children did He have ... Just wondering 🙏☯️🌈
....and brother-in-laws.
Thank you dear rabbi! Amazing teachings!
Rabbi I'm learning Hebrew its amazing how deep like when hashem says no other gods beside my face it's so different I'm glad I started to learn some bruach hashem
Why did hashem say "beside my face"
So even endowed with the wisest head on the planet...a gift from God ....he still couldnt work out that all these women was going to end in trouble! Something doesn't add up here!
It is not the number of women that was the problem according to God.
It was the religion of the women that was the problem.
@@SherrickDuncan 🤣🤣🤣
No common sense
There are about 19 verses in the Quran about Solomon. Allah swt gave both David PBUH and Solomon PBUH great knowledge and wisdom
Quran 27:15 We gave (in the past) knowledge to David and Solomon: And they both said: "Praise be to Allah, Who has favoured us above many of his servants who believe!"
Thank you Rabbi for your response to the question you are awesome
j.j.cagney No they were prophets and none of them sinned during prophet hood.
The Quaran is not the Bible.
Muhammed is a false prophet. He received a false revelation from demons in a cave.
@@justaguy1212the Bible is not the Torah
@@justaguy1212You could say that Holy Books of Abrahamic fait is trilogy.
Book one: Torah
Book two: Bible*
Book three: Qur'an
(*Paul teachings not included)
OK now! I also want to make sure it will be” peace amongst my neighbors”.........
@Simon Stauber Lol
Perfect answer from the rabbi here 👍
So Salomon had 8.76 hours per years on average, for each wives, yep that does make a lot sense
He would have had his harem grooming him, more than one women at a time, and probably let his rich mates enjoy his errotic parties( im just being real/ not looking through religious eyes that are blinded to truth) the girls were probably expected to enjoy each other .... yes just like a playboy mansion.... come on people see it for what it really is..... he could not have emotional relationships with all if them ... but he could sleep with a group of them at once
@@sweetheart-kt5vn for realz give or take maybe back then there were more hrs in a day remember life span been cut short so it's possible it could have been more hrs in a day but realistically being real he had a lust problem too and he was more than just the king he was king ding a ling yuppppp and those 700 wives and 300 pilglesh was lovin it with open arms lol so it had to been real good😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
iisha Jacob lol, lifespan has nothing to do with the rotation of our planet.... 24 hours is 24 hours no matter how long you live...
@@DG-by5oz time and hours were created by man
@@HistoryandReviews and 24 hours is still 24 hours no matter where you live....
I love the way you retell these stories. I know your passion is getting through truth out about Tanakh being raped by the Christian New Testament but I greatly appreciate all these little nuggets you share. I would love to see you write lessons like this on all of the Tanakh for those of us who aren't Jewish but want to know from the real original Jewish perspective and understanding. I have so much respect for the Jewish Tanakh because of your videos. You are a gifted teacher and I hope to see you continue to share more of these. Thank you so long. 🙏
*so much
Fulfilled* by the Christian New Testament aka the Truth.
Its pretty obvious he had a lot of children we don't know about.
@Samuel Byron The nice thing about open forums in this sort of subject is that it shows where the minds of people are, in the gutter. Your Freudian slip is showing.
@@Atbay8 The nice thing about open forums in this sort of subject is that it shows where the minds of people are, in the gutter. Your Freudian slip is showing.
jdaze1 you didn’t need a phd in theology to figure that out lol
He had one , but he was born defective
SIMP
Fascinating sir 👍
and then he started to bring idols into israel for some of his wives who did not want to worship The God of Jacob. This was a serious problem.
liar
soloman and muhamed have the same path of the truth they destroy the idols and they worshiping the one god
He made mistakes, like you do. But he was still the wisest person on Earth at his time. And he repented, hence the book of Ecclesiastes.
I don’t think so. There are 195 countries in the world today and there would have been much fewer in Solomon’s day. Your theory falls flat. Maybe he just loved women .
Thank you so much Rabbi, I feel so much closer to HaShem because of you.
Alfred Andrews,
Please explain how 2 words, > the name, became defined as, > HaShem?? In other words, HaShem IS defined, MEANS, the name. IF I ask You OR anyone of the name worshipers what is the name of the Park in front of the White House in Washington D.C. will you HaShem worshipers say the park in front of the White House is HaShem?? Do ya get my drift?? I will answer for You. NO!!
@@FrankNStein-pf9rr first, let me respond by saying that you are asking about a foreign language that you are baseless about. Ignorance answers before inquiring. I can assure you that I have forgotten more than you will ever know about this subject. But please do go ahead and respond. I only do ONE shot across the bow…
@@alfredandrews3124
U have assured me that U R A fool and A charlatan. Only fools & charlatans know and understand everything.” - Anton Chekhov
As far as Your ONE shot across the bow, it was a cheap shot made by an unstable & unlearned KNOW IT ALL!
@@alfredandrews3124
What Hebrew word IN the Tenach is translated > HaShem, or MEANS HaShem? And SPARKY!! Tell me this. IF the name of the self-existing, ETERNAL CREATOR is HaShem, THEN WHY do we have YHWH-YHVH?? WHO is that or who are THEY?? Hey CUPID!! DRAW BACK YOUR BOW & SHOOT!
What a wonderful time it must of been during Solomon's time.
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I enjoyed this shiur. Toda raba.
Because he was a King! And a Prophet and God gave him the greatest kingdom ever.
So there were 1000 other kingdoms around his? Yeah, right!
700 wives were from nobility.
Susan Simpson: Solomon married them continuosly for political peace, but not real peace, as the Tenach teaches civil war came to Israel after Solomon's death. It calculates out to a marriage every 2 weeks. No marital love was in such marriages as they were political and no children from these women are listed either except for Rehoboam who was born 1 year before Solomon became king.
Gary Allen
Puberty age :
Boys reach puberty between the ages of 9 and 11. Girls reach puberty between the ages of 8 and 10.
So it’s possible.
you obviously did not pay attention to what was said.
@@MuhammadZubair-js8og I don't believe boys or girls reach puberty that young. It's more like 12.
So much for “the Bible says that marriage is between one man and ‘one’ woman.”
lol
Reply to Matt Vinci - So what...? King David had SEVEN wives, and ‘many’ concubines. King Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines. Those are biblical facts, and *nothing* you’ve said refutes any of it...!
Reply to Matt Vinci - lol
I have no doubt that *YOU’D* be happily burning people at the stake who disagreed with you and your agenda, IF you could.
still laffin’
It doesn't say that phrase at all.
Bill O'Reilly does. 😄
Shalom rabbi thank you
Thank you for that simply delivered but great message.
Because its good to be the king.
Concerning a Godly king:
"When you come to the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and possess it and dwell in it, and say, ‘I will set a king over me like all the nations that are around me,’ 15 you shall surely set a king over you whom the Lord your God chooses; one from among your brethren you shall set as king over you; you may not set a foreigner over you, who is not your brother. 16 But he shall not multiply horses for himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt to multiply horses, for the Lord has said to you, ‘You shall not return that way again'. 17 Neither shall he multiply wives for himself, lest his heart turn away; nor shall he greatly multiply silver and gold for himself.
18 “Also it shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write for himself a copy of this law in a book, from the one before the priests, the Levites. 19 And it shall be with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God and be careful to observe all the words of this law and these statutes, 20 that his heart may not be lifted above his brethren, that he may not turn aside from the commandment to the right hand or to the left, and that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children in the midst of Israel". ~ Deuteronomy 17
So, no amassing of horses, no multiplying of wives, and no excessive accumulating of silver and gold.
These commands were designed to prevent the king from trusting in military might, following foreign God's, and relying on wealth instead of on God. In modern times, a President, Premier, or Prime Minister, seeking to be a Godly leader is faced with abiding by this instruction.
In terms Of Solomon's gold, I don't see this as violating the Law. He brought the gold in for the benefit of the Kingdom, not just himself, and he didn't necessarily greatly multiply it, depending on what you views as greatly.
Solomon wanted peace? No he wanted piece.
Susan Simpson , heh. He wanted a piece of that and a piece of that.
Susan Simpson hee! hee
Sam AND I'M BORN-AGAIN and don't got shit !! 😂😂😂😀
Daniel Robertson in a way i wish God was/is a female goddess......something to fantasize about despite it being impossible to get. Like a usa supermodel hee hee. Queen of Queens....
chuckles...
The real lesson that no one is above the law, Moses paid the price, so did David, and Solomon. And all these wishiwoshi explanations don’t hold any water.
The Bible is clear in 1 Kings 11 and there is no respect of Persons with the “God of Gods” in Deuteronomy 10:17 and He cannot be bribed. All the promises to True Biblical Israel were fulfilled as it is written in the word.
King salomon, you rock!
King Solomon rocked with all the wisdom but he missed out on Viagra. I know the king now wish he had some Viagra
The practicality of one man having so many “wives” (700) and “concubines” (300) and meeting their needs is questionable. More than likely many were nominal wives, wives in name only, enjoyed the benevolence of the king but with whom the king had little or no conjugal relations.
waste of precious resources -agreed ?
That explains the viwes. But I still wait for the explanation for the concubines...
No replies. Fascinating
This is just a thought. Did they come with the wives such as the handmaidens came with Leah and Rachel. They were there from the same city to help out these ladies of upper-class. And Jacob slept with handmaidens. What's the difference between that and a Concubine.This idea is really more of a question
The 'Jewish' term wasn't yet invented when king Solomon reigned, so 'conversion of wives to judaism' couldn't take place yet. By marriage, they immediately became one of the tribe.
Even im muslim,im also feel offended when people insulted prophet Solomon for having many wives..
Its a political matter and his speciality as a prophet..
Women from every tribes deserved to marry a man called prophet..
If I tell that to my wife lol y'all guys know where I'm going with this 😂
He had a thousand wives and concubines? Gotta wonder how smart Solomon was. Maybe it's like how you call a tall guy "shorty."
Tovia explained the wives, but not the hundreds of concubines. You have to conclude that Solomon liked the ladies.
thank you for this rabbi.
King Solomon greatness in Islam were,
1- he can understand and talk to everything that's mean birds, stones, animals Etc.
2- he has the ruling hand over the jinny & devils and commending them.
3- he has the winds at his commends.
4- A river of copper.
and the reason why he married so many, because he wanted to build an armies, so he spread the monotheism, that's why he has river of copper to build weapons and the wind to carry them.
PS : am not going against jewdisom, just share information and learn.
My only question is ...
at what point did he
play a game of fifa with the lads?
The scriptures takes pains to number the 'wives' at 700, and the 'concubines' at 300. Rabbi Singer conveniently combines this grand total all into the wives category, thus conveniently dodging the 'concubine' element of what is obviously a two-part question.
Concubines, right. Is that anything like a prostitute?
@@fidneusdiller2486 Not sure, is a bath-tub anything like a shower-recess?
God condemned David and Salomon having these wives and concubines because they corrupted the Jewish faith in God. Every man must have one wife and only , like God and His people.
@@fidneusdiller2486 No it is not, at least if the concubinage relationship is it was supposed to be. e.g. No less than 30 days relationship, there is to be an agreement of obligations & rights, some say written agreement, between the 2, automatically renewed unless agreed by both to terminate, 30 days notice for termination is required.
not dodging, just that for the point he was making the difference between the 2 types is not relevant.
6:08 And [mention] David and Solomon, when they judged concerning the field - when the sheep of a people overran it [at night], and We were witness to their judgement.
We guided ˹young˺ Solomon to a fairer settlement, and granted each of them wisdom and knowledge. We subjected the mountains as well as the birds to hymn ˹Our praises˺ along with David. It is We Who did ˹it all˺.
And We taught him the fashioning of coats of armor to protect you from your [enemy in] battle. So will you then be grateful?
And to Solomon [We subjected] the wind, blowing forcefully, proceeding by his command toward the land which We had blessed. And We are ever, of all things, Knowing.
And of the devils were those who dived for him and did work other than that. And We were of them a guardian.
SURAH Al-Anbiya 21.78-82
(Surah The Prophets) 21.78-82
The Rabbi has forgotten the Tenach verses that say his wives took him away from worship of Elohim. He started out well, but he was not 12 years old, otherwise there would be a regent appointed for him until he came to be about 20. He must have been 20 because the Tenach says he died after 40 years as king and his son Rehoboam was 41 years old when he became king. So Rehoboam was born 1 year before Solomon was king.
Your math is off he was twelve and reigned 40 years which means he died at 52 years old.
Why did king Solomon have over one thousand wives?
Because he could.
solomon did not have 1000 w ives he had 300 plus 700 concubines
King Solomon shared his wisdom with me.....WHY WOULDN'T YOU WANT TO!!!
How can you call “wise” any man with ONE THOUSAND women?!?!
The Bible says he was wise. Doesn't mean he was incapable of making mistakes.
@@Atbay8 He wasn't perfect.
The other kings wanted alliance and gave him their daughters
Intersting that the passage about too many wives for a king is right after the issue of not returning to Egypt. And the miscalculation was in taking an Egyptian wife who was set in her idolatrous ways.
Solomon was Sinning Plain Simple. God never told Solomon to have many wives. He was given over to his lust. He was given over to his sins and did not repent until his later days of his life and then written the letter Ecclesiastes. God never told David not have many wife. God say it plainly one wife only. Both David and Solomon were sinning.
Is that right...??
Jesus Christ did not say anything against David and Solomon in his sermons
Wow, this really shows as humans we can justify anything...
I don't think so. Maybe you were thoughg in other way about this matter and that's why you see this as made up, but that is not neccesarily the case
When I just convert to Christianity I prayed for wisdom knowledge and understanding probably that why am here now listen to your video
According to the Bible, it is also allowed but most christians dont follow the bible but more her own laws. Martin Luther says it is allowed and not forbiden after the bible although he restricts it for rulers and when it does not cause a scandal.
Martin Luther's restrictions do not matter. God in His word allows it period for a Man as long as they can afford to feed - clothe and provide shelter for each wife.
@@SherrickDuncan scripture please. We require scriptures when speaking of what God said.
@@faith1614certainly. There are hundreds of Scriptures that say a average layman Male may do so and zero that say that the average layman Male may not.
The one I referenced is :
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This is what the Lord says. :
Exodus 21:10
If any married man takes a second wife, he must only see to it that he continue to give his first wife the same amount of food - clothing - shelter and the same marriage rights that she had before.
- God i.e Jesus
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1 Timothy 6:8
If you have food and clothes, that should be enough for you and with these you should always be content.
- God i.e Jesus
@@SherrickDuncan
1 Timothy 6:8 is not talking about having multiple wives. You can’t use isolated verses to fit your point without referring to the whole context of the chapter. That is what i want scriptures on please. Multiple wives. Thanks.
God allow that doesn’t mean HE want you to have that so let’s learn to glory GOD instead of ourselves
That time no rule about limitation number of wife, Islam came to limit up to 4, but if u can't do justice between wife, MARRY ONLY ONE !! The only religious book on earth ...
To all my visitors, welcome to our playground. Here you'll find many little gangs of children fighting over things like a ball, or toy or maybe a packet of sweets. Enjoy the observation!
Its good to be the king.
Dear rabbi, was there thousands countries around solomon country, how many times did see his wife's, how many children, is it fair to the wife to see her husband 10 times in life time, physically and emotionally he was absent husband. Even strongest man can not have thousand wife's. It is extremely hard almost impossible to do so.who pay for wife's, people in country, or he inherited a mountain of golds. I am very serious. I want to know the answer to it. God bless you.
I Kings 11:4-5 reveal that King Solomon did in fact begin to worship idols.
imposibru
he needed another state to keep them there
God blessed and told him to be fruitful and multiply. His seed would be huge within the population of the world. Q: Curious to ask why did he build a temple in Egypt for the Lord God?
Over three years just to go trough all of them omg heaven on earth for every man 😂
A different poop hole everyday
🤮
@@HistoryandReviews your comment is disgusting, get off
@@Emanuel-oz1kw so is your name.
PS: you like butts so shut up
his children and descendants enough to fill the world
A group of Rabbi's met a few years back, and they decided a Man can have two wives if he can provide for them.
He's supposed to provide separate housing, & there are other rules to it also.
King Solomon is perhaps fhe wisest man the world ever produced. But, he got one thousand priblems too.
Imagine having 1,000 mother-in-laws?
Chuckles...
Mother in laws don’t act like regular mother in laws when their daughters are married to the smartest and richest man in the world.
Thank you so very much. This was an excellent teaching. Thank you thank you thank you!!!!!
Lorene Rae Ward : His teaching is incorrect !
Because men like women.
Oddly more than one women firstly came with Lamech who was regarded as egotistical and rather narcisstic.
Funny explanation. Simple answer is due to temptation nothing to do with keeping peace with neighbouring kings. Assuming one wife represents one neighbouring king... so 1000 wives means there were 1000 neighbouring kings around Israel at tat time. This does not sound realistic for an area smaller than China or India. Suppose that he had a great wisdom, was there no other way to keep peace.... if this is the case, then the wisdom tgat King Solomon had was not that great, as claimed in yhe bible. Tge truth is this, no matter how wise a man or woman is, if he or she is unable to control his or her basic instincts, then the wisdom will be quite meaningless. In the case of King Solomon, although he was very wise, the wisdom cannot control his basic instincts. He should ask one more thing other than wisdom, that should be tge ability to resist temptation.
IT EASY FOR YOU TO SAY THAT NOW, YOU KNOW THE PAST, BUT AT THAT TIME YOU WOULD HAVE DONE THE SAME THING TO.
It was common practise of Near East to have so many women as you could. In fact Solomon was obliged to have so big "garem" because he was prominent ruler in region. It is clear that 300 and 700 are symbolic numbers. Rabbie's had forbidden poligamy only during middle ages. In written Torah by itself polygamy wasn't forbidden.
j.j.cagney lol at sulaiman huh.....
j.j.cagney and he had a beer belly
Witiok1992 he had around 700 wives
"Ia berkata: Ya Tuhanku, ampunilah aku dan anugerahilah kepadaku kerajaan yang tidak dimiliki oleh seseorangpun sesudahku." (QS. Shad: 35) . siapapun yang menghaku sebagai pewaris kerajaan Nabi Sulaiman ,dan berjuang membangunya kembali ,maka telah gagal paham :) #IslamsaveIsrael peopel
number one book reading @ Holly Scriptures = Psalms from the Smooth of ISRAEL...
So sad all of holy books have criticized the prophets and why Quran is the only book who respects and taught to respect every messenger of God there Good deeds and their original wording are so meaningful and true
Salomon: 1,000 wives & concubines in a 4,000 people city.
You obviously did not pay attention to what was said. And there were more than 4,000 people in the city, many more.
Why did Adam live so long?
930 years.
Because he didn't have a mother in law😊..
im sure those woman where so happy
Well they were probably better off than if they had married some poor schmuck.
Omgosh , they were happy, beauty treatments, royal foods, royal wine, married to a king, party party party
Well, he was the King, they had better be happy.
Oh my... 1,000 mother in laws?
Salomon was a the wisest man ever. But as all humans, we tend to fall astray at some point. Salomon reached perfection to God. Also he went astray all the way. So as far as Salomon, your were either in total light or in total darkness. He wasn’t in between. Yet, only God knows why people go through the things we do.
What’s the music at the end called
Adon Olam
Because there is greed and there is no equality in this world. Others have bountiful while others have none. There is no justice
There might have been no war. But the domestic strife had to be off the scale.
Any living family tree from King Solomon anywhere?
@Simon Stauber popes are pagan
Wasn't multiple wives against scripture? Otherwise, it makes sense and was probably a burden more than anything.
Phillip Solesky No not at all. Abraham m, Isaac and Jacob all had multiple wives. Jews at least those residing in Europe only stopped having multiple wives during the Middle Ages with the enactment of Rabbeinu Gershom a later Rabbinic and not Biblical proscription.
Although Kings are proscribed from having too many wives (pegged at a max of 18)
Monogamy is actually rooted in paganism and forced by the Roman Empire
Polygamy is a sin.
Polygamy teachers are sinners.
Abraham, Jacob, and David repented.
Deuteronomy 17:17 KJV
Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
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Jacob buried Rachel along the side of a road.
Jacob buried Leah with Abraham and his wife Sarah and Isaac and his wife Rebecca.
Polygamy was a sin in the Old Testament.
So king solemn didn't worship the idols , but allows them in instead. Where can I find that in the bible?
Think about how many kids king Solomon has around the world.
When did was king solomon a prophet?
Joezer D in the Quran IT says Salomon was a Prophet
Was psalm a solomon's sacred book ? Then, he is a prophet.
@@mohammednuur1954 King Solomon was not prophet. Solaiman was prophet.
Who sings the song and is it in you tube ?
P.S... King David did not have 18 wives,but he had 8 wives and 10 concubines...In Hebrew culture,concubines are not considered to be wives....Jeesh!...That's all...Shalom
Ugh 😩 so right wives means eight legal inheritors but only Solomon got the kingdom 🤣😁🤔😕🧐🤨😝😜🤪😛 and legal inheritance bahaha Bahahahaha , rest were concubinal children.....
Bahahahaha king hath no royal ride but donkey 🐴🐴 are u making others donkey 🐴 lmao.... And u tend to say that David's royal ride was a donkey 🐴😹 Bahahahaha Bahahahaha......... Some one's following the asses.... You don't seem to belong from David's tribe but rather from his opponents who is annoyed that he bequeathed kingdom to Solomon and not to other kids .... Lmao 🤣🤨🧐😂😁🤔
Another question for you Rabbi Singer - you call it a mistake. Why would you call it a mistake?
We can have multiple but nit that many
in koran there is verse about king solomon married Balqis, a queen of sheba kingdom ...
There is no such verse
Hugh Hefner craps his pants when the name King Solomon is uttered
Deut. 17:17 says, "Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold." If Rabbi agrees with this English translation, this verse means that even a king should not have more than one wife. This verse also implies that a king should not use his own power to gain too much wealth. If a king has already had one wife, even having the second wife means that he has multiplied his wife. If he has many wives, he has multiplied greatly his wife. Both cases are not allowed by God. But a king is allowed to multiply silver and gold, but is not allowed to multiply greatly silver and gold. This is the justice law of God. If Solomon would multiply greatly his wife for the purpose of the peace, as Rabbi suggested, his wisdom is not from God but from his own. In this way, he did evil against God even if he would be a great prophet and had written great scriptures. If Solomon would not have repented of his sins in his late life, he would not be saved.
The Bible says his wisdom is from God. That isn't refutable.
It does not say multiple wives. You would know that if you could read hebrew. It says not have many wives and yes we have a limit. You have a horrible translation of deuteronomy
@@justaguy1212 true but this commenter didn't translate the bible properly
4:04 prophet, wrote books in the Tanakh
Even Rehoboam his son was not 100% jew because his mother was an Ammonitess. I shook my head reading the book of Kings when the kingdom was slowly rent because of idolatry from his wives.
he also said hes hooked up with men
@SheepOfChrist818 ecclesiastes i thinkl, something about the best of men the gbest of women, and i was like whoooooooooooooooooa tou topped lot not pun, isnt it shabbat?
@SheepOfChrist818 solomon, jesus rubs johns feet in john 13 and lied about malachi 4 5
Solomon was like the first united nations..
Absolutely I don't share your point of view, that man didn’t trust in the Lord IF that was the reason(s). Obviously, he had no morals. He wasn’t doing what the Lord Almighty Told him to do. He was preaching something and living in immorality.
Besides that, how many countries were surrounding Israel in those days? No more than four. I am not saying this to criticize him. I am saying this to make sense of his behavior and immorality. The Lord Always has been able to protect and provide for Israel, he didn’t need foreign women or many wives to empower himself!
The only things we can to are: Obey and Respect The Lord. Nothing else, No one can tell he/she loves God if such a person doesn’t obey nor respect Him.
Don’t judge me wrong, I love Salomon, pieces of advice, they are all wonderful and useful. I want and I need to practice, believe and enforce them in my daily living, but I want and I need to stay away from his life examples.
Julio Villalta most everyone in the Hebrew Scriptures had multiple wife Solomon just did it big
These were not all wives and concubines in the way you are describing. Many of these women were well cared for but were. "political wives" ..... but there were obvious issues that the Rabbi only began to discuss in this short video.
Prophets don't act without creators guidence. And we can't say prophets did mistakes.
Prophets are also humans man. Think of Balam who was a prophet and also a very evil man...
Solomon wasnt as wise as he thought.
He was wise, he wasint perfect
Because he could... It's good to be King
Me having more wives makes more war
What a wrong reason he had so many wives.
Greater men such as Alexander the great, or Julius Caesar had far less wives, concubines and lovers and their kingdoms were enormous. By contrast, Solomon had a tiny kingdom and more wives.
Rabbi Singer, for Solomon to marry a woman, her father needed to agree to the marriage. What was the reason the neighboring kings agreed to all those marriages of Solomon's ? Also - Solomon's children were not Jewish?
The Rabbi explains man's solution for peace in the empire, and not that God centered, because Solomon catered to making idols compatible w the wives religion etc.? Hebrews were forbidden to intermarriage w the heathen. The Bible relates that all have sinned, and likely making a point that even the wisest man succumbed? This is one of the reasons for God's announcement that He would divide Israel into 2 nations, after Solomon?
The answer is easy: he was a sinner like the rest of us in need of a saviour.
I didnt think the wives converted because he built places for his wives to worship the gods they brought with them.
So did Joseph Smith JR. I'll be getting into the moormons next.
Because he could