Never mind David’s missteps with Bathsheba and what he was moved to do to her husband. (And David already had six wives before her.) Deuteronomy 17:17 was an explicit command against polygamy, particularly for kings, but for everyone.
no, it recommended kings not take “many” wives, leaving “many” mathematically undefined. 2? 3? 7? 8? 10?
equating “many” to “two or more” is reading more into the words than what is there.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/many
1 : consisting of or amounting to a large BUT INDEFINITE number
Yet for some reason Mathew 1:1-17 and in the third chapter of Luke showed a very interesting set of family histories in regards to the Savior.