You avoided the issue, Loran. Again. The Book of Mormon sounded denounces plural marriage. Calls it an abomination.
The Book of Mormon does no such thing. The very fact that you don't care if you make a fool of yourself in public, and don't care that your severe ignorance of your own scriptures makes you appear like a poseur who is not even a member of the Church (and if it wasn't for Jason setting me straight on that, I'd still not believe you had ever been a member, your comment above being a prime example of my point).
Here's what Jacob actually says. You could have looked this up for yourself and saved me the effort of having to make you look like a smug tendentious demagogue.
For if I will, saith the Lord of Hosts, raise up seed unto me, I will command my people; otherwise they shall hearken unto these things.
David may have taken some wives that were not approved of by the Lord. What we do know is that, in the verses I provided, the Lord through his prophet did, indeed, allow David plural wives, even the wives of a conquered enemy. The exact nature of this situation I do not know. He allowed Moses, Abraham, Issac, and Jacob plural wives as well. The only scriptural record in the Old Testament we have of an improper course of action for David sexually was Bathsheba, which was adultery, not approved plural marriage. Were there some other wives that may have been improperly incorporated into David's household? The Book of Mormon seems to imply such. This is a peripheral point, however, because the verse you conveniently refrained from mentioning sets the Lord's law regarding the matter for his people.
In Jacob 2:30, Monogamy is the rule, but there is an exception, and that exception is plural marriage, a principle the Lord retains the right to command and authorize a people to practice. Outside of that command, it is not to be practiced. Within his command and authorization, it is a righteous practice, as the Old Testament testifies. If the Lord wishes to "raise up seed", then, he says, he will command his people. If not, his people cannot take it upon themselves to initiate this principle. They are to have one wife only.
Now, your default fall back position will be to claim that those verses in the Old Testament that legitimize or condone plural marriage are of men, not of God. Your other fall back position is now going to have to be to claim that Jacob 2:24-28 are the words of the Lord, while, two verses later, the text of Jacob 2:30, is a human interpolation. This is nice work if you can get it, wandering through the scriptures deciding, purely upon personal subjective criteria, what you will accept and what you reject.
believe it or not Harmony, it really isn't all that fun to see you dance like a spider on a hot frying pan this way. I wish you'd find yourself a coherent position and theory regarding this issue, and others, and stick to them.
You're playing of the scriptures off against themselves, and your extreme subjectivist approach to everything is wearying.
There's no getting around that, no matter how any subsequent verses are interpreted. Plural marriage is condemned as an abomination. Are you saying the Book of Mormon isn't the word of God? And have you forgotten that the Bible is held as God's word with a caveat? A caveat not extended to the Book of Mormon?
Good grief, Loran. You're the poser, better than anyone else on this board ever could be.
Start reading the scriptures for yourself, and thinking about them, before you post here any further.