Timeline for Why did God order the destruction of Jericho in Joshua?
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| Jun 22, 2021 at 0:53 | comment | added | Polyhat | @Bach Strong's numbers are quite standard. Here it is H5221. Many sources will index this word for you, including: blbclassic.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H5221 ; biblehub.com/hebrew/5221.htm ; and kingjamesbibledictionary.com/StrongsNo/H5221 . Take your pick. | |
| Jun 22, 2021 at 0:11 | comment | added | bach | which dictionary did you copy this from? | |
| Jun 21, 2021 at 21:38 | comment | added | Polyhat | @Bach I updated the answer as per your request, and added a touch more besides. You may be seeing a conjugated form, e.g. " יַכֶּה֙ " (he kills) or "יַכֶּֽנּוּ" (who kills him), in the actual text versus the "dictionary" form that I have copied here. In this conjugation the first root letter, nun [נָ], is dropped and replaced by a yod [יַ]. It is not, however, a heh [ה] until we get to verse 46 "וְהִכִּיתִ֗ךָ" (and I will kill you). | |
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| Jun 21, 2021 at 19:50 | comment | added | bach | "He "נָכָה" (nakah) Goliath, sometimes translated as "slew" or "smite" etc." I think you may be referring to the Hebrew הכה rather than נכה. Can you please add the text that you are referencing here? | |
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| Jun 21, 2021 at 2:45 | comment | added | Polyhat | @Dave I imagine that you think no children were born to the antediluvians for at least two decades prior to the Flood, and that, on account of their sexual perversion, perhaps, there could not have been any children in Sodom when God destroyed it. Proper hermeneutics, my friend, does not rely on what we think should be true. God's ways are not man's ways, nor His thoughts man's thoughts. | |
| Jun 21, 2021 at 2:39 | comment | added | Dave | Thank you for your response. This (putting up an alternative view) is a far more appropriate reaction to disagreements than ‘downvoting’ - although I appreciate that you followed up via comment. Now to your response - using ‘war’ or practicing ‘evil’ as a legitimate excuse ... to slaughter children??? To utterly wipe out anything that’s breathing??? I’m glad my God doesn’t take these actions. I’m glad that modern scholarship has provided some far more palatable view (of God!!!), and ‘answers’ that make far more sense | |
| Jun 21, 2021 at 1:59 | comment | added | Steve | A responsible answer but with a very OT focus. This leaves no hope for anyone who had died in ignorance - in which Jericho and all the others were killed to make way for Israel. While the Q does not ask for the hope in this seemingly hopeless situation, I think it was warranted to include in the reasoning behind this queried command. Gentiles were not offered salvation until the NT except for a few like Rahab who God called to serve a purpose. | |
| Jun 21, 2021 at 1:36 | history | answered | Polyhat | CC BY-SA 4.0 |