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D&C 132:38 · Jacob 2:24

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Doctrine and Covenants D&C 132:38
"David also received many wives and concubines, and also Solomon and Moses my servants, as also many others of my servants, from the beginning of creation until this time; and in nothing did they sin save in those things which they received not of me."
Book of Mormon Jacob 2:24
"Behold, David and Solomon truly had many wives and concubines, which thing was abominable before me, saith the Lord."

Shared words: many wives and concubines

The divergence is not a matter of wording. Both verses name David and Solomon and both use 'many wives and concubines'; the two verses state opposite verdicts on the same fact - 'abominable before me, saith the Lord' against 'in nothing did they sin save in those things which they received not of me'. D&C 132:39 narrows the revelation's verdict in David's case. Whether the two can be reconciled - and the sermon's own conditional at Jacob 2:30 - is an interpretive question the wiki does not settle. 'many wives and concubines' stands at six distinct frozen verses in the corpus: D&C 132:1, D&C 132:38, Ether 10:5, Jacob 1:15, Jacob 2:24, Mosiah 11:2. Jacob 2:24 is paired because it alone names both David and Solomon as the revelation's verse does.