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  • From: "Jack Kilmon" <jkilmon AT historian.net>
  • To: "Jim West" <jwest AT highland.net>, <tladatsi AT charter.net>, <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Re: children bear punishment for sins of parents - Ez18:20 & 2Sam 21
  • Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 20:52:27 -0500


----- 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Primitive ideas, even in the Deuteronomistic history, were superceded by later legislation and praxis.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




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