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[Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>]

Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org> wrote:

 1 Kings 12:33, "on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, in the month 
that HE ALONE HAD DEVISED". 

A more accurate translation of the highlighted biblical words above -- )a$er 
bada)
milibo  -- would be "that he had invented in his heart" ; the same phrase 
occurs also in Neh. 6:8.
 
BD -- "empty, idle, (invented) talk" as in Job 11:3 and elsewhere may well 
originate from the above.
 
Uri


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On 30/08/2004 17:31, Uri Hurwitz wrote:

>Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org> wrote:
>
> 1 Kings 12:33, "on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, in the month 
>that HE ALONE HAD DEVISED". 
>
>A more accurate translation of the highlighted biblical words above -- )a$er 
>bada)
>milibo  -- would be "that he had invented in his heart" ; the same phrase 
>occurs also in Neh. 6:8.
> 
>BD -- "empty, idle, (invented) talk" as in Job 11:3 and elsewhere may well 
>originate from the above.
> 
>  
>
I should have said that I was quoting NRSV. Anyway, the point seems 
clear, that Jeroboam had decided for himself on the date of this feast, 
and that it was not (in the view of the Deuteronomic author) one of the 
feasts prescribed by YHWH.


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