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Always excluding the Book of Genesis and the Patriarchs
entirely, let’s continue our consideration of the use of the Biblical words (LH
and HR in connection with the
1. Spies.
HR and (LH are paired regarding Moses’ spies “going
up”/(LH to
2. Joshua.
Joshua 10: 36 features (LH and XBRWN in southern hill country, and Joshua 10: 40 predictably has HR. All very predictable.
3. Samson.
Judges 16: 3 has XBRWN in southern hill country and (LH and HR. All very predictable.
Samson and Joshua and Moses’ spies all “go up”/(LH to the
“mountains”/HR in order to get to the
4. Future King David.
II Samuel 2: 1-3 has (LH five times and XBRWN in southern hill country twice. No HR is mentioned there.
5. Elders
of
The elders of
Please note that in all five cases, there’s never a
mention of (MQ when the
Thus leaving aside Genesis entirely, in the rest of the
Bible if there is a mention of
(a) (LH is
likely to be there. That’s because
one has to “go up”/(LH to get up to the mountainous city of
(b) HR is
likely to be there. That’s because
the mountainous city of
(c) But (MQ
will never be there, because in the context of southern Canaan [south of the
Jezreel Valley], (MQ in Biblical Hebrew means: “a true broad valley located east or
west of the Watershed Ridge Route that is at a lower elevation than hill
country”. In the Bible [always
excluding Genesis], the site of King David’s first capital city of
Thus if the reference is to the mountainous city of
In my humble opinion, (LH and HR and (MQ are very basic
Biblical Hebrew words that have very clear meanings. (LH and HR fit the mountainous city of
The Bible records the historical name of a fine
historical non-Hebrew princeling who married a Hurrian wife and who was the
ruler of
Jim Stinehart |
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