[GLDNGUN]

NOW! If an old boy marries a woman, then marries another woman (Number 2) is it lawful in GOD”s eyes, or is some dispensation given if he did not put away his first wife before marrying his second?

Going by the regulations that were given as part of the law, I would have to say "yes". I can only go by what the Bible says, not what I want it to say or you or anyone else wants it to say.

Use some simple logic here. If Jesus meant it was adultery to have 2 wives at the same time, why didn't He just say that? Then the verse would read something like "Whosoever shall have a wife and shall marry another, committeth adultery" but He didn't say that. He put in a qualifier that if you "put away your first wife" THEN marry a second you have committed adultery.

As to your first point about where the extra wives came from for David, it matters not. Wives are wives and they were then in every sense of the word.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

John has a wife. He does not like her and divorces her. He then marries another woman.

He has commited adultery.

Bill has a wife. He does not like her but does not divorce her. He then takes another wife. THIS IS NOT ADULTERY?