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  • From: <tladatsi AT charter.net>
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  • Subject: [b-hebrew] From Jack - 1 Sam 15 7 2 Sam 21 Ex 34:7
  • Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 2:27:43 +0000

Chris & Co.

I believe that you are quite correct that in Ex 34:7 God
reserves this authority to punish later generations for the
actions of earlier generation. That is exactly what
happens in both 1 Sam 15 and 2 Sam 21. In both instances,
it is God who initiates the actions. In 1 Sam 15 God tells
Samuel to tell Saul to attack and wipe-out the Amekelites.
In normal war solders fight solders and non-compatants,
like women, children, and animals are left alone. However
Samuel's command to Saul is extraordinary. The command is
to kill everyone and destroy everything. The rationale for
this extraordinary warfare is that it is punishment the
actions Amelek two hundred years earlier.

So it is the same in 2 Sam 21. Saul commits a crime, God
brings a famine down on Isreal because the crime (causing
much suffering on Isreal), David determines the cause of
the famine, David kills Saul's two sons and five grandsons,
the famine is lifted. David acts at God's initative.

In nether case does Saul or David initiate this *attention*
to later generations.

Jack Tladatsi




  • [b-hebrew] From Jack - 1 Sam 15 7 2 Sam 21 Ex 34:7, tladatsi, 04/22/2005

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