Doctrine and Covenants 132: 38

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THE
DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS
OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS

SECTION 132

38 David also received ^amany wives and concubines, and also Solomon and Moses my servants, as also many others of my servants, from the beginning of creation until this time; and in nothing did they sin save in those things which they received not of me.

Footnotes

38a

Ex. 21: 10 (1, 7-11).

10 If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her ^aduty of marriage, shall he not diminish.

1 Sam. 25: 43 (42-43).

43 David also took ^aAhinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his ^bwives.

2 Sam. 5: 13.

13 ¶ And David took him more concubines and ^awives out of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron: and there were yet ^bsons and daughters born to David.

1 Kgs. 11: 3 (1-3).

3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his ^awives turned away his heart.

Jacob 1: 15.

15 And now it came to pass that the people of Nephi, under the reign of the second king, began to grow hard in their hearts, and indulge themselves somewhat in wicked practices, such as like unto David of old desiring many ^awives and ^bconcubines, and also Solomon, his son.

D&C 132: 1.

1 Verily, thus saith the Lord unto you my servant Joseph, that inasmuch as you have inquired of my hand to know and understand wherein I, the Lord, justified my servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as also Moses, David and Solomon, my servants, as touching the principle and doctrine of their having many ^awives and ^bconcubines—