Marriage I

phi-lan-der

 (fi-landr)v. intr. phi-lan-dered, phi-lan-der-ing, phi-lan-ders. 1. To carry on a sexual affair, especially an extramarital affair, with a woman one cannot or does not intend to marry. 2. To engage in many love affairs, especially with a frivolous or casual attitude.

                                             Excerpted from American Heritage Talking Dictionary

And make ye marriages with us, and give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.

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If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.

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Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.

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Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:

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The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.

Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.

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And David sent and inquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?

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And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house.

And the workman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am with child.

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And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.

And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, (and bare him a son.) But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord.

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Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.

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And David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her: and (she bare a son,) and he called his name Solomon: and the Lord loved him.

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Solomon

And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day:

and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.

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But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;

Of the nations concerning which the Lord said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: - - Solomon clave unto these in love.

And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.

For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods:  - - and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father.

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The son Bathsheba, (bare him) like his father David, ruddy completed,  however (she bare a son,) who like Uriah and Bathsheba, Solomon was a fair complicated.

But king Solomon loved many strange women

This account gives the impression that Solomon was a philander, however the women he knew were not strange to him, rather strange to Israel . . .    (  Of the nations concerning which the Lord said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you:) . . . later all these countries would become a great grievance of the heart to the sons of Israel.

The women whom Solomon loved  and found there way into his bed were strictly for political purposes only bringing with them, huge dowries of land and money (gold) making Solomon the richest  man in the earth, even to this day, none ever compared to the riches of Solomon.

The Lord God ISamuel