Okay, quote to me where David was chastized by God for having 6 wives prior to his stealing the Hitite’s woman and causing his demise in battle. Please, I am waiting.
Actually, he’s right. The Bible is quite clear that there is nothing morally wrong about polygyny - in fact, the practice is approvingly spoken of at least six times. God himself told David “I gave you your wives, and if these were insufficient, I will give you more.” Surely, it is foolish to accuse God of immorality for giving David his multiple wives. Rather, David’s condemnation was for taking another man’s wife and for having the husband killed.
The biblical description of women is vastly different than that of modern western society. Women were property - first of their fathers, then of their husbands. Furthermore, the biblical society’s hierarchy allowed men the right to not just have multiple wives, but also concubines and slaves. Neither was there any penalty for men to have sex with prostitutes. It was a purely patriarchal society - what a man does with his property is his own business.
I frequently observe the tendency of many to distort the Bible’s plain teachings to conform with their own theological assumptions. I would be ashamed to interject myself and dogmatically declare something that is easily disproven when it only shows one’s ignorance.
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.