Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
In Nauvoo, Illinois, Smith introduced ecclesiastical leaders to the practice of polygamy, and he married several plural wives. [16] On July 12, 1843, Smith dictated and had recorded what he said was a revelation from God describing the theology and purpose of polygamy, relating it to biblical portrayals of polygamous marriage by Old Testament ...
[63] as Smith took Desdemona as a plural wife [64] and became part of an early group wives taken by Smith [65] After Smiths death, Desdemona married Ezra T. Benson on January 26, 1846, in the Nauvoo Temple [66] The marriage was only "for time", [67] instead of being for "time and all eternity", meaning that Desdemona was sealed to Smith in the ...
The Mormon doctrine of plural wives was officially announced by one of the Twelve Apostles, Orson Pratt, and church president Brigham Young in a special conference of the elders of the LDS Church assembled in the Salt Lake Tabernacle on 28 August 1852, and reprinted in the Deseret News Extra the following day. [2]
Smith's wives were mostly between the ages of 20 and 40, but Helen Mar Kimball, the daughter of close friends, was "sealed" to him several months before she turned 15. "Plural marriage was ...
Bowen was a school teacher in both Utah and Wyoming before migrating to Mexico in 1890 — under prophetic direction, in order to legally enter into the practice of U.S.-banned polygamy — with his first wife and children. Bowen's plural wives included Mary Theresa Thompson (1868-1957), Harriet Cazier (1870-1894), Dora Pratt (1878-1904), and ...
Of his fifty-six wives, twenty-one had never been married before; seventeen were widows; six were divorced; six had living husbands; and the marital status of six others is unknown. [1] Nine of his wives had previously been plural wives of Joseph Smith, and Young was sealed to them as a proxy for Smith. [1]
(1 Timothy 3, Titus 1) hermeneutically, the Greek phrase mias gunaikos andra is an unusual Greek construction, capable of being translated in multiple ways, including (but not limited to): 1) "one wife man," (prohibiting plural marriage) or 2) "a wife man" (requiring elders to be married) or 3) "first wife man" (prohibiting divorcés from ...
ET has an exclusive sneak peek at how the move will affect Kody's plural marriage with Janelle's sister wives, Meri and Robyn and soon-to-be ex-wife Christine. "In plural marriage, if you're not ...