You might have seen a pain scale in your doctor's office before. One common type shows a series of numbered cartoon faces moving from 0 (smiling and pain-free) to 10 (weeping in agony.) A doctor would ask a person in pain which face matched up with what they were feeling. They might seem simple.
In our day this might be more than one. For Israelite King Echov, one particular foreign wife, Isabel, was one too many. King David is said to have had eighteen wives and concubines, seven mentioned by name in the OT and the others mentioned in the oral tradition.
For example, the woman may have conceived all daughters or she has recently married a man with all sons. Often, the couple are trying to reverse that trend and get a baby of a new gender. And they are often wondering if the man has any control over which sperm chromosomes he will produce during this process. I heard from a woman who said: âI had three boys with my previous husband. I am getting married to a man who also has two boys. Needless to say, I want a girl baby with my new husband.