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In our chapter, the Israelites betray God (once again) and are delivered into the hands of the Midianites\u2014along with assorted other desert tribes including Amalek, who raid them so incessantly and thoroughly that they are compared to the devastation caused by locusts (v.5). Adhering to the sequence forecast in chapter two (see our comments there), they cry out to God and a savior <\/span>shofet<\/span><\/em> appears in the person of Gideon.<\/span><\/p>\n

Let us investigate one step in this process that is detailed in v. 8:<\/span><\/p>\n

The Lord sent a prophet-man unto the children of Israel and he said unto them, \u201cThus says the Lord, the God of Israel: I brought you up from Egypt and brought you forth out of the house of bondage.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The commentators are unanimous in identifying this \u201cprophet-man\u201d (<\/span>ish navi<\/span><\/i>) with Phineas son of Aaron, the High Priest (see Rashi, Kara, Kimhi, inter alia). On the one hand, Phineas is named as an active leader of the people late in Joshua\u2019s career (see Joshua 22:13 ff.) and there is no subsequent report of his death,* so he could, quite logically, have been the one to respond to the people here. <\/span><\/p>\n

On the other hand, however, where was he in the interim? As Ralbag (Gersonides, 1288-1344) questioned:<\/span><\/p>\n

One might well ask, if this prophet was present, why did he not rebuke Israel throughout his life? Why did they have to call on Deborah? To resolve this quandary, it appears that his prophecy was intermittent and was inadequate for the task of leading the people, for which reason, also, he had to appoint Gideon.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since prophecy requires divine inspiration (see our comments to Judges 4), it was not Phineas\u2019s choice to seize or relinquish the initiative in these matters, but God\u2019s.<\/span><\/p>\n

* Jewish legendary tradition declared Phineas to have defied death, even identifying him with the later prophet Elijah who, likewise, never died, as anyone knows who pours him a beaker of wine at the Passover Seder. <\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":62369,"id":62369,"title":"1kings13-prophet","filename":"1kings13-prophet.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/1kings13-prophet.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/setting-limits-on-prophecy\/1kings13-prophet\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"1kings13-prophet","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":62364,"date":"2019-09-04 12:42:45","modified":"2023-04-10 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