Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Jack Kilmon" <jkilmon AT historian.net>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim West" <jwest AT highland.net>
To: <tladatsi AT charter.net>; <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 7:22 PM
Subject: [b-hebrew] Re: children bear punishment for sins of parents - 
Ez18:20 & 2Sam 21


> Of course, though, the problem is twofold:
> 1) there is no evidence that this punishment was ever carried out.
> 2) that ezekiel revokes it means that, at the very least, his 
> contemporaries found it inapplicable and theologically inappropriate.
>
> Primitive ideas, even in the Deuteronomistic history, were superceded by 
> later legislation and praxis.


Would not 1 Sam 25:22; 1 Kings 14:10; 1 Kings 21:21 and 2 Kings 9:8 apply to 
this?

"Any that pisseth against the wall" refers to male descendents.

Jack

Jack Kilmon
San Marcos, Texas