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1 | Number of baskets? Loaves? Fish? | Mark 8:21 | DocTrinsograce | 200484 | ||
Hi, Val... I'd be loathe to imagine an error in the autograph -- especially since the OT manuscripts are particularly so solid. Translation is always difficult because of the difference in time and culture. Idol is probably as good a word as any. Perhaps figure, image, or talisman might work. I suppose the closest analogy in our own culture might be similar to the Roman Catholic practice of placing a Saint Christopher figure on automobile dashboards. They probably both worked just as well, too! :-) Assuming that they were talismans of some sort, then here is a thought: Given Michal's upbringing, and given that she was a woman with strong personal opinions (trying to be polite here), I'd say it was likely that David was unaware of her possession of such images. On the other hand: I just gave one of the Rabbis a call (at my local Aish HaTorah). He was confident that what Michal used was a decorative statue. Apparently, in some of the wealthier homes, wives would keep a statue of their husbands. The purpose was the same as is our practice today of having photographs of our spouses. I'm uncertain of the accuracy of either of these views. Perhaps, if nothing else, they provide you with further food for thought. :-) In Him, Doc |
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2 | Number of baskets? Loaves? Fish? | Mark 8:21 | Val | 200501 | ||
Dear Doc, Very good, thank you so much. Blessings - Val |
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3 | Number of baskets? Loaves? Fish? | Mark 8:21 | DocTrinsograce | 200502 | ||
You're welcome! So are you leaning toward one possibility or the other, ma'am? |
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4 | Number of baskets? Loaves? Fish? | Mark 8:21 | Val | 200511 | ||
The view that David was unaware of the image being in the house could be possible. If I am not mistaken he was very young and this was his first wife. How long he got to stay with her I do not know as he had to escape out the window for his life. So it could be possible he didn't address the issue. The second view that it was an image of him for decorative purposes seems possible too. Since her father, Saul, was the king she probably had much wealth or at least a nice house. Since David is called a man after God's own heart we know that his heart was in the right place - serving the Lord of hosts alone. I know I read in one of his accounts that he burned idols of his opponents so surely this wasn't an idol of a foreign god. Another thing that was unclear to me is that he had so many wives and concubines but in 2 Samuel he is told that God gave him the wives. So I am wondering is it just the time period that made this ok compared to the present where this is not ok but we still we go back to the idea of one man and one woman in Genesis. Didn't the Lord tell the men not to multiply wives so how is this ok? 2 Sam 12:7 Nathan then said to David, "You are the man! Thus says the LORD God of Israel, 'It is I who anointed you king over Israel and it is I who delivered you from the hand of Saul. 2 Sam 12:8 'I also gave you your master's house and your master's wives into your care, and I gave you the house of Israel and Judah; and if that had been too little, I would have added to you many more things like these! Deut 17:17 "He shall not multiply wives for himself, or else his heart will turn away; nor shall he greatly increase silver and gold for himself. |
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5 | Number of baskets? Loaves? Fish? | Mark 8:21 | DocTrinsograce | 200541 | ||
Hi, Val... What 2 Samuel 12:7-8 is saying is that God gave to David all that was Saul's. Scholars agree that this turn of phrase doesn't imply that David actually had sexual relations with these women. Robert Jamieson states, regarding this verse, "The phraseology means nothing more than that God in His providence had given David, as king of Israel, everything that was Saul’s. The history furnishes conclusive evidence that he never actually married any of the wives of Saul. But the harem of the preceding king belongs, according to Oriental notions, as a part of the regalia to his successor." In Him, Doc |
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