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Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't Rolf say that he had searched for the parts which were
uncancellable, indicating that he accepts that there are both cancellable and uncancellable
parts?
Anyway, back to the original point, it seems that this summary has adequately shown that
sequentiality is usually present but can equally not be present without 100% predictability.
This naturally leaves only the context to decide whether 'wa' be best traslated as and/but/while/when.
For many readers, including the chronicler, the account at 2Sam24 was not entirely sequential
and neither was the subject so implicitly and strictly understood.
Whether this non-sequentiality represents 'bad grammar' or not is debatable but I remain of the
opinion that it is the grammar that obeys the language and not vice versa.
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