Apparently, he did, whereas you cut his entirely correct quote in half to make it seem false. God punished David for his actions in obtaining another man's wife, not for having several of his own.
Regardless of what we think of polygamy now, clearly the Almighty was down with it in ancient times.
“Regardless of what we think of polygamy now, clearly the Almighty was down with it in ancient times.”
A good way to look at it. I wonder how many people have lost their faith in God becaue they have been told that things like polygamy are evil, then they read the OT itself, and then cannot reconcile the cognitive dissonance of the prophets practicing something their preacher says is an abomination. Some learn to play mental gymnastics with the issue to maintain their faith and others abandon it. Sad.