Personally, I have always shuddered at the fact that David was called "a man after God's own heart" and that Abraham was called "God's friend."
David had at least 3 wives named in the Bible (Michal, Bathsheba, Abigail--I'm probably missing some--let me know who), and who-knows-how-many concubines (seeing as his son Absalom helped himself to at least 10 of them, and after that, they were kept as widows, never to be reunited with David and never allowed to remarry ever again.) Sorry, that's just a few too many cooks around the pot as far as I'm concerned.
Abraham, not just once, but twice, was willing to hand Sarah over to the most powerful men in the land as a wife in order to try to ensure his own life would be spared. "Here you go, do what you want, take her... Just let me crawl away in one piece." Not exactly a knight in shining armor there.
If these were the great men of God that I would have had to choose from (and I talk to God about this from time to time), one thing is for sure--I'm better off single.
Some would say, "But they had money."
Who cares? What good is all that money when you're treated like just another household good that can be passed around and traded at will?
The only men of the Bible that I thought were attractive were The Josephs--Joseph, the son of Jacob, and Joseph, the step-father of Jesus.
The last time I wrote that I admired Joseph the son of Jacob, someone called me a gold digger.
Nope, sorry. I admire this Joseph because: 1. He turned down a powerful woman who could have helped him advance his position (Potiphar's wife,) and 2. He survived the prison system, which I'm sure was about 1000 times worse than we could ever imagine, and yet, overcame bitterness and was even able to forgive the people who put him there.
And I'll always be in awe of Joseph, Mary's husband, because when she was found to be pregnant (and it wasn't his child), he had it in his mind to "divorce her quietly" because he "did not want to subject her to public disgrace."
I know I can't argue with God's descriptions of people, but to me, "the Josephs" were truly men after God's own heart and definite marriage material.