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NASB | Mark 8:21 And He was saying to them, "Do you not yet understand?" |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Mark 8:21 And He was saying to them, "Do you still not understand?" |
Subject: Number of baskets? Loaves? Fish? |
Bible Note: 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. |