Key Verse: Verse 3 - “And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.”
Key Words: seven hundred wives...three hundred concubines
If my math is right, Solomon had one thousand women...WOW!! One thousand...most of us can’t handle one, much more one thousand!! To be the wisest man on earth, he wasn’t very smart, was he?
Don’t you know that Solomon’s palace was full of tension? You get that many women together who love the same man and you have a problem waiting to happen.
Reminds me of a story I read recently titled “Men, Women, and Words.”
In a Harvard study of several hundred preschoolers, researchers discovered an interesting phenomenon. As they taped the children’s playground conversation, they realized that all the sounds coming from little girls’ mouths were recognizable words. However, only 60% of the sounds coming from little boys were recognizable. The other 40% were yells and sound effects like “Vrrrooooom!” “Aaaaagh!” “Toot toot!” This difference persists into adulthood.
Communication experts say that the average woman speaks over 25,000 words a day while the average man speaks only a little over 10,000. What does this mean in marital terms? On average a wife will say she needs to spend 45 minutes to an hour each day in meaningful conversation with her husband. What does her husband sitting next to her say is enough time for meaningful conversation? Fifteen to twenty minutes – once or twice a week.
Now, let’s see if I’ve got this straight. Solomon had one thousand women – that’s 25,000,000 words a day he would have had to listen to! It would have been 45,000 hours per day of conversation he would have been asked to listen to.
Hey Solomon, you wanted it – you got it!
This could not have been a pleasant experience with so many sweethearts.
“He who findeth a wife [singular] findeth a good thing.” There’s a reason that God intended for us to have only one wife. Trust me, it’s all we can handle.
Dr. Mike Rouse
What to do:
✞Be content with the wife of your youth.
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