Therefore Hannah Wept: Polygamy in the Bible, 1 Samuel 1

Welcome to the late-night Tired Dad's Cafe, as Josh and Dan zoom after the kids' bedtime to talk polygamy. This practice, so foreign to the modern western mind, is everywhere in scripture. But just because polygamy shows up there, does that mean the bible is advocating it? Is polygamy – and other morally repulsive ideas – advocated by scripture? The answer is in the narrative, not the bullet points and we take a look at how most of these multiple marriages went – spoiler alert: not well.