{"id":9891,"date":"2026-11-03T09:44:55","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T17:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/pastors-side-piece-or-multiple-wives\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T09:44:55","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T17:44:55","slug":"pastors-side-piece-or-multiple-wives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/pastors-side-piece-or-multiple-wives\/","title":{"rendered":"Pastor&#8217;s Side Piece or Multiple Wives?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8EvaRGtwnxo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>PASTOR\u2019S SIDE PIECE | Polygamy, the Black Family &amp; the Mothers of Israel<\/p>\n<p>Our children are growing up without fathers in the home, and the church acts like it\u2019s not happening. 41% of Black children live in a single-mother home. Only 37% live with both married parents. Nearly 7 in 10 Black babies are born to unmarried mothers.<\/p>\n<p>So what did Israel do when the men weren\u2019t there?<\/p>\n<p>In this discussion we open Genesis and look at something most pulpits never talk about: plural marriage in the households of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and the fact that it was often the women who proposed it. Sarah gave Hagar to Abraham. Rachel gave Bilhah. Leah gave Zilpah. The twelve tribes of Israel came from four mothers, and the Messiah came through Judah, the son of the wife Jacob loved less.<\/p>\n<p>Then we turn to the prophet. Isaiah 4:1 says \u201cseven women shall take hold of one man.\u201d Is that a warning, a description, or a solution?<\/p>\n<p>This is not a sermon. It\u2019s a conversation, and Scripture is honest about the cost too. Come ready to think.<\/p>\n<p>Scriptures referenced<br \/>\nGenesis 16, 21, 24\u201325, 27, 29\u201330, 35, 49 \u00b7 Joshua 13, 19 \u00b7 Ruth 4 \u00b7 Isaiah 3:25\u20134:2 \u00b7 Matthew 1 \u00b7 Luke 3 \u00b7 1 Timothy 5:8 (KJV)<\/p>\n<p>Statistics sources<\/p>\n<p>Bowling Green State University NCFMR, Children\u2019s Family Structure, 2025 (U.S. Census CPS-ASEC)<br \/>\nCDC\/NCHS, Births: Final Data for 2023<br \/>\nU.S. Census Bureau, Living Arrangements of Children<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcac Where do you stand? Is plural marriage biblical for today, or a relic of the past? 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