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NASB | 2 Samuel 12:11 "Thus says the LORD, 'Behold, I will raise up evil against you from your own household; I will even take your wives before your eyes and give them to your companion, and he will lie with your wives in broad daylight. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Samuel 12:11 "Thus says the LORD, 'Behold, I will stir up evil against you from your own household; and I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your companion, and he will lie with your wives in broad daylight. |
Bible Question:
I'm no Hebrew scholar by any means, but from what I can determine from my interlinear and every translation that I have, God is speaking in the first person as the subject and is stating that He would perform the action, not just that the action would happen. Are there any Hebrew scholars out there (maybe even you Kelkat?) that can shed some definitive light on this? |
Bible Answer: My only reasoning behind my theory is another verse I resently studied. 1 Tim 3:11 (KJV)"Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things." From what I could get from my Hewbrew dictionary, "Even so" means "in the same way" and there is no "must" or "their". "Wives" is "women, particularly married women"...so "In the same way, women. Be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things." It doesn't read very well. And I was just thinking that it might have been the same situation in 2 Sam 12:11 I took German in college, I am far from fluent. Even with the help of tutors, I could not write a sentence in German. The verbs were in different places than in English, and it just didn't seem to flow...ya know what I mean. It was just a thought that maybe the same was true of Hebrew. Don't get me wrong, I have no doubt that God can do what ever He wants, whenever He wants. I just think sometimes He gets way too much credit when He shouldn't, and none when He should. Kelkat |