Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 05/08/2005 05:14, Heard, Christopher wrote:

> Karl,
>
> So are you suggesting that in a construction with SWT ... L)MR +  
> imperative ..., the speaker who is the subject of the verb SWT  
> doesn't really want the addressee to do what is specified in the  
> imperative mood? I have a hard time seeing that, but I've hardly done  
> an exhaustive study of SWT in other passages.
>
>  
SWT is elsewhere followed by L'MR introducing the words of incitement 
elsewhere only in 2 Kings 18:32 = Isaiah 36:18 and Deut 13:7 (English 
13:6), as far as I can find.

There is a semantic parallel in 1 Kings 22:20-22 where YHWH sends a 
lying spirit to entice (PTH) Ahab by lying to him. Also Genesis 22:2, 
although without SWT or similar, where God tells Abraham to do 
something, sacrifice his son, although in fact God did not want him to 
go through with it.

Christians might also consider the parallel in John 6:6.

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