Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>]

To All:

What one learns from debate.

This one caused me to go back to my concordance. I still have a copy of 
Lisowski’s.

First I noticed that QCP when used as a verb is almost always followed by (L 
(ayen lamed) followed by the object (person or thing) upon which the fury 
falls.

Secondly, as a verb, it is always from a superior onto an inferior, e.g. 
pharoah onto his baker and cupbearer, God onto Israel.

As a noun the line is not as clear though understood, again from a superior 
onto an inferior. But it is often left to the context and the reader to 
recognize the superior and inferior as they are often not explicitly stated 
in the text.

Looking at the exact meaning of QCP, it appears to mean fury, with a dash of 
disgust mixed in with a desire for vengeance. It is the action of a superior 
who is angered, yet disgusted, with the disobedience of his inferior and who 
is willing to act out vengeance (punishment) upon that disobedient inferior.

Now let’s look at 2 Kings 3. It starts with Joram becoming King and still an 
idol worshipper, hence already worthy of QCP. Then in verse 4 Mesha of Moab, 
another idolater, rebels against Joram. In verse 9 he takes along the king of 
Edom, another idolater, and Hezekiah, many of whose people continued their 
idolatry even though Hezekiah himself followed Yahweh. Elisha’s reaction in 
verse 13–14 clearly indicates that God was ready to doom the whole army of 
Israel and Edom to death, but the presence of Hezekiah spares their lives. 
There was already QCP (L Y$R)L (qetsep al yisrael), King Mesha’s sacrifice of 
his son was merely incidental, not the cause, thereof. Though could God’s 
fury have been inflamed further as the people reverently stood by while Mesha 
performed his sacrifice? Where were the arrows or slung stones to try to stop 
it? That they were close enough to recognize the players meant they were 
close enough to shoot arrows, maybe even close enough to throw a javelin or 
 two. So why did they allow that religious ceremony to go through 
uninterrupted? That would infuriate God.

Those are my thoughts.

Karl W. Randolph.
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