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  • From: "Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] XSD
  • Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 05:56:08 -0500

Dear Bill and Karl,

Again, one of my favorite commands, "Look at the context." Uriah had just spent
time out in the field, just traveled from the encampment to Jerusalem, and was
therefore dirty, sweaty, even stinky. By far the dirtiest part of him was his feet,
shod only in sandals, exposed to the dust of the camp and road. So what David
commanded was for Uriah to go home and wash up, to feel presentable. The
modern equivalent would be "go home and take a shower". What David wanted
was that Uriah would not stop at a shower, rather take advantage of some of the
other comforts of his house, however, under the cercumstances, he couldn't _say_
that as that would raise suspicians in an area where David did not want suspicians
to be raised. So he merely said that Uriah go home and wash up. The mistake that
is being done here is to claim that the words expressed the hidden desires of
David's heart whereas I understand that David purposely stopped short of
expressing what he wanted Uriah to do so as to avoid raising suspician.

HH: On this particular point of the usage of RGLM with Uriah, I agree with Karl. David is encouraging Uriah to get out of the battle mindset and enjoy the comforts of home. By asking him to wash his feet David indicated that he did not need to return to the battlefield right away but could take a break.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard


Bill Rea, IT Services, University of Canterbury \_
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Phone 64-3-364-2331, Fax 64-3-364-2332 /) Zealand
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Karl W. Randolph.

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