Is There a Real Life Historical Case Like This?
1) Direct answer
Yes. The Bible gives real historical cases that show exactly this principle.
2) Scriptural explanation
- Michal and David: Michal was David’s lawful wife. Saul later gave her to another man (Paltiel) while David still lived (1 Samuel 18:27; 25:44). When David demanded her, she was returned to him and the second union ended (2 Samuel 3:14–16). This shows the first marriage remained binding, and the later union had to cease.
- Sarah and Abimelech: Sarah was taken into Abimelech’s house under a mistaken assumption, but God said, “She is a man’s wife… restore the man his wife” (Genesis 20:2–7). Even in ignorance, God upheld the first covenant.
- Herod and Herodias: John said to Herod, “It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother’s wife” (Mark 6:17–18). While the first husband lived, the second relationship was condemned as unlawful.
- The rule stated: “If, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress… but if her husband be dead, she is free” (Romans 7:2–3).
3) Simple clarifying logic
Now notice: in every case, the living first covenant governed the outcome. Mistake, time, or a second union did not dissolve it. Restoration to the original covenant—or separation from the unlawful union—was required.
4) Short reinforcing statement
You see, the Bible’s history and its doctrine match: the first bond stands while he lives.
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63-0901M §139
What? The life, watch when the life is took for the blood. The life, itself is took. The life, is took for the blood. The blood was applied, and the life could not come on the believer then, for the life of an animal, not the life. But see, instead of a human being, It was a super, super, super human being. And that makes the human being now, not only human being, but he is a son and daughter of God, of the super, super, super, super, super, Life, that was in Him comes back upon you and changes you from a sinner an...
Thirsting for Life
58-0611 §39
You go down here to one of the honky-tonks, tonight, and you can see them dancing and the young ladies and the young men of this beautiful city, you can hear them screaming, and dancing, and drinking, and they say, "Oh, we are living." You're mistaken. You're dying. That kind of a life couldn't be what David was talking of, because that life gets so miserable till men take a pistol and put it to their head and blow their brains out with that kind of life. Men climb to the highest story in the hotel rooms, up there...
Diseases and Afflictions
50-0100 §41
Brother Bosworth investigated the case, then he come to me. He asked the man all about it. And when he come to find it this way, he said, asked me, said, "How did you know that that was the man?" I said, "Sir, I begin to get weak. I knew it was coming from somewhere." And he said, got to the microphone, he said, "That proves Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. It proves it." Said, "Now, the gift that was in Jesus Christ would be like this whole ocean out here, beating against the bank. The gift in...
Thirsting for Life
58-0611 §16
And I thought, because of Thy love-kindness is better than life. What is greater than life? Just tell me one thing, tonight. What's greater than life? Nothing is greater than life. And there's only one type of eternal life, and that life comes from God. Anything that had a beginning has an end. It's those things which have not a beginning, has no end. And in the beginning, God, eternal life... And then out of eternal life, which in the Greek is called zoe, or "God's life." Agape love, and phileo love, and so forth,...
And knoweth it not
65-0815 §92
...feet." He said, "After it quit shaking, I heard a voice." And said, "Brother Branham, it was your voice. And I know, something said that to me." Said, "It said, 'I'll ride this trail once more.'" Said, "I started looking up the rock like this, and looked on, in past the clouds, and way up there standing on a rock that reach from the east to the west in a pointed shape like that, like a pyramid. Run back there to the east," and said, "there you was standing there on a horse that... I never seen anything like it in...