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Your assertion that Jews had given up the practice of polygamy by the Second Temple is patently and provably false. Jews were practicing polygamy well into the middle ages.

In theory, one could marry one's deceased brother's wife, impregnate her with a male heir on the wedding night and divorce her as soon as she gave birth to a son.

You need to go back and study the allowable reasons for divorce were under Jewish law.

Everytime polygamy is discussed in the Hebrew Scriptures it is not valorized.

Once again, a false statement. David's wives were given as a BLESSING FROM GOD. Solomon was never reproached for his polygamy. Rather he was reproached for not keeping his heart on God and loving foreign women 1 Kings 11:2

Now read 2 Samuel 12:8 and answer me this.... What did GOD tell David that he should have done?

Your assertion that Jews had given up the practice of polygamy by the Second Temple is patently and provably false.

LOL! yet you adduce no evidence to prove it.

Jews were practicing polygamy well into the middle ages.

Some Jews who lived under Islamic rule readopted polygamy in the 800s - it was not a practice continued through the ages.

You need to go back and study the allowable reasons for divorce were under Jewish law.

LOL! The reasons for divorce in the Torah are completely vague. In practice the Jews could and did divorce their wives for any reason under the sun.

David's wives were given as a BLESSING FROM GOD.

No, they weren't.

Was Bathsheba truly a blessing from God? Was God pleased with that whole scenario?

No, in point of fact, 2 Sam 12:8 read truthfully in its context refutes your entire argument.

Nathan the prophet is berating David because God has allowed David - despite his sins - to enjoy so many privileges and amenities including his multiple wives.

This passage in no way endorses or blesses polygamy - do you really think that Nathan came to bless David and his deeds in the name of the Lord?

Or did he rather rebuke him and curse him?