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King Solomon with his wives. Illustrated in 1668 by Giovanni Battista Venanzi. According to the biblical account, Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines. [39] The wives were described as foreign princesses, including Pharaoh's daughter [40] and women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, Sidon and of the Hittites. His marriage to Pharaoh's daughter appears ...
Pratt reported that Smith told some early members in 1831 and 1832 that plural marriage was a true principle, but that the time to practice it had not yet come. [34] Johnson also claimed to have heard the doctrine from Smith in 1831. [35] Mosiah Hancock reported that his father Levi W. Hancock was taught about plural marriage in the spring of ...
However, a group identifying as Evangelical Christians claim an estimated 50,000 of their group practice Christian polygamy in the West, based on their belief that the Bible glorifies this form of marriage, which they justify by citing the fact that many biblical prophets had multiple wives, including David, Abraham, Jacob and Solomon. [4]
It was reported that at the time of Jeffs' death at age 92 that he may have had as many as 75 wives and 65 children; [40] however, conflicting sources indicate that Jeffs may have been survived by 19 or 20 wives and "about 60 children," including 33 sons. [41] Name: Warren Jeffs: Born: December 3, 1955 (age 69) Date entered polygamy:
For Joseph Smith's wife Emma, it was an excruciating ordeal," the essay, part of a collection issued over the past year, said. The church, founded in 1830, banned polygamy in 1890 when the U.S ...
Over 14 years after 'Sister Wives' first premiered on TLC, Kody Brown’s polygamist family has split
Many Mormons, including prominent church leaders, maintained their polygamy into the 1940s and 1950s. [84] In 1943, the First Presidency learned that apostle Richard R. Lyman was cohabitating with a woman other than his legal wife. As it turned out, in 1925 Lyman had begun a relationship which he defined as a polygamous marriage.
Naturally, the big move — and her upcoming conversation with Kody, 55, and his remaining wife, Robyn Brown on the matter — had her reflecting on the rocky points in her 32-year marriage.