“Sexual wickedness which had become prevalent in Israel, and the consequent abuse of the marriage relations, was, evidently, the reason why the Lord commanded that the children of Lehi should have but one wife. … [They] ran into excess and wickedness, as their fathers had done before them. … The words ‘multiply’ and ‘greatly’ [in Deuteronomy 17:17], evidently imply excess and unreasonable indulgence, as in the case of David and Uriah, and in taking strange women, as in the case of Solomon” (Richards and Little, Compendium of the Doctrines of the Gospel, 130–32; see also D&C 132:38).