Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>]

Jack:

The United States is going to be punished for the Roe vs. Wade decision. Yes, 
the people who actually made the decision are long dead and 
buried. The people who will actually bear the brunt of the punishment were 
either not born, or were too young to have any say on the 
decision. So it certainly looks like that the children and grandchildren of 
those who made the decision are being punished for the sin of their 
parents. But no, the punishment is not for the decision per se, rather it is 
for the national defense of that evil decision though all these 
following years, the murder of innocent humans based on who they are and not 
on their moral nor legal guilt, and based on the fact that there 
has not been one serious national attempt to overturn this illegal (even the 
judges involved admitted privately that they were legislating from 
the bench, brought out when one died and his private papers become public) 
and immoral ruling.

The above paragraph is an example of what Ameleq did. The opposition to 
Israel during the Exodus was just the opening salvo, but it set in 
motion a pattern that was to last centuries, some of which were recorded in 
Judges. This was a national judgment. What God mentioned is 
merely the first action, and the reader would be reminded of all the 
following actions that followed the same pattern. What the pnishment was 
for is not only for the actions of the ancestors, but also for the continuing 
actions following the ancestors’ pattern.

Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: tladatsi AT charter.net
> 
> Here is the text I read in both Engish (NAS) and Hebrew:
> 
> Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'I will punish Amalek for what
> he did to Israel, how he set himself against him on the way
> while he was coming up from Egypt.
> 
>   e&-r$) le) r&yl qelm( h&( -r$) te) yTdqP tw)bc hwhy rm)hK
>   .eyrcMm wtl(B jrDB  wl
> 
> The idea of wiping out Amelek did not come from Saul but
> from Yahweh through Samuel to Saul.  The idea was that
> instead of just attacking Amelek as any other enemy, i.e.
> fighting the solders and leaving the non-combatants alone,
> everyone and everything would be attacked and destroyed.
> The justification for depatrue from normal practice was the
> sin Amelek had committed two hundred years earlier of
> attacking Isreal as they left Egypt.
> 
> I certainly don't mean to offend but the text seems quite
> straight forward and unambiguous.
> 
> Jack Tladatsi
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