Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 23/04/2005 18:25, George F Somsel wrote:

> ...
>
>
> I tend to think that you're trying to sanitize the account from a modern
> Christian perspective.  It would appear from the return to the them of
> famine/plenty in the resolution of the famine through the harvest this
> puts God's imprimitur upon it.
>
>  
No, I don't think so. God demanded that something was done about this 
sin. In the Hebrew Bible context, according to Leviticus, sins could be 
dealt with by sacrifice, but sometimes various different sacrifices 
could be made. David had a choice of what sacrifice to make. He chose in 
effect a human sacrifice, and that sacrifice was enough to atone for the 
sin. But the sin could have been atoned for in other ways - perhaps by 
silver and gold, perhaps by animal sacrifices as well.

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