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  • From: <tladatsi AT charter.net>
  • To: "Vadim Cherny" <VadimCherny AT mail.ru>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] 2 Sam 21 & Punishment
  • Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 2:08:53 +0000

Hello again,

The text I read is this, in English (ASV) and Hebrew:

Now there was a famine in the days of David for three
years, year after year; and David sought the presence of
the LORD. And the LORD said, "It is for Saul and his bloody
house, because * he put the Gibeonites to death."

$eQbyw hn$ yerx) hn$ eyn$ $l$ dwd yemyB b(r yhyw
lW)$-l) hwhy rm)Yw hwhy yenP-t) dwD
. eyn(bGh tymeh-r$)-l( eymDh tyeB

It would seem that there was a famine (drought?) in Isreal.
David asked Yahweh why there was such a long famine.
Yahweh answered that the famine was brought on my Saul's
crimes against the Gibeonites. It is the Isrealites
(probably the Gibeonites as well) who are suffering from
the famine which was the result of Saul's crimes. Saul is
of course dead at this point. David kills Saul's two sons
and five grandsons both to appease the Gibeonites and
Yahweh. This seemed to have been effective as it says at
the end of 2 Sam 21:14.

and after that God was moved by prayer for the land.

aek-yerx) ur)l eyhl) ret(eYwjlMh hWc-r$) lK

Once more, I do not mean to offend anyone but the story
seems quite transparent. Saul commits a crime. There is a
famine as a result of that crime (causing much suffering no
doubt). The children and grandchildren of the criminal are
killed. The crime is avanged and the famine is lifted.


Jack Tladatsi





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