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  • From: K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
  • To: kenneth greifer <greifer AT hotmail.com>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Year 13 Hebrew Grammar
  • Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:46:44 -0700

Kenneth:

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:32 AM, kenneth greifer <greifer AT hotmail.com>wrote:

>
> Jim,
>
> I looked at the quotes and I think they could say the kings served the
> other king 12 years, then they rebelled 13 years, and in the fourteenth year
> (of their rebelling), the king came to attack them. It does not literally
> say "in the 13th year " they rebelled. I am too lazy to look if all quotes
> that say in a certain year something happened have the word "in" actually in
> the quote. I am sure you or one of the intellectual giants of B-Hebrew would
> know the answer to that.
>

Verses 4–5 give you your answer:

שׁתים עשׂרה שׁנה עבדו את־כדרלעמר ושׁלשׁ־עשׂרה שׁנה מרדו׃ ובארבע עשׂרה שׁנה
בא כדרלעמר והמלכים אשׁר אתו

Your reading is accurate. It doesn’t need an “intellectual giant”, just look
at the text.

>
> Kenneth Greifer
> http://www.messianicmistakes.com/
>
> Karl W. Randolph.



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