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It is very wrong for people to portray polygamy as a Muslim thing yet it is well known that the Bible is pro-polygamy. Polygamy is one of the grand Bible-based values people don’t like to talk about. You will find nothing in the Bible, Old or New Testament, that discredits polygamy. Actually, the Bible does not restrict how many wives a man can have. Only that he must be married to whoever he has sex with. In the Bible, King Solomon, who was one of the “good guys” had 1000 wives and concubines. According to the Bible, a man may have sex with any woman who is legally his property. This means polygamy is acceptable under biblical morality.  Almost all the Biblical great personalities had multiple wives and concubines (David, Solomon, Isaac, Abraham, Gideon, Machir, Manasseh, Esau, Isreal, Jacob etc). For instance, in Exodus 21:10, a man can marry any number of women without any limits. In 2 Samuel 5:13; 1 Chronicles 3:1-9, 14:3, King David had six wives and numerous concubines. In 1 Kings 11:3, King Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines. In 2 Chronicles 11:21, King Solomon’s son Rehoboam had 18 wives and 60 concubines. In Deuteronomy 21:15 “If a man has two wives, and he loves one but not the other, and both bear him sons....”. In Deuteronomy 25:5 if a woman’s husband dies, and she didn’t have any kids from him, then she must marry his brother regardless whether he had a wife or not.