Polygamy in the Bible

[TK Burk]

Originally Posted by MissBrattified

None of them. It wasn't the bride's house.

I've read historical accounts of this before, maybe T Burk can help me out here. The bridesmaids would light the way to the bride's house for the groom and groomsmen.

So the 5 without lit lamps were not able to participate in the procession to the bride's home, and had to go out and purchase oil for their lamps. By the time they caught up, the wedding was in progress, and the bridesmaids weren't allowed in.

And this?

A Commentary on the Old and New Testaments by Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset and David Brown

shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom — This supplies a key to the parable, whose object is, in the main, the same as that of the last parable - to illustrate the vigilant and expectant attitude of faith, in respect of which believers are described as “they that look for Him” (Heb_9:28), and “love His appearing” (2Ti_4:8). In the last parable it was that of servants waiting for their absent Lord; in this it is that of virgin attendants on a Bride, whose duty it was to go forth at night with lamps, and be ready on the appearance of the Bridegroom to conduct the Bride to his house, and go in with him to the marriage.