{"id":57924,"date":"2019-06-20T15:30:24","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T12:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=57924"},"modified":"2023-01-16T15:18:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T13:18:27","slug":"kenites-save-yourselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/kenites-save-yourselves\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenites, Save Yourselves!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[],"acf":{"old_id":"57924","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":54356,"related_cahpter":"247","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Distancing friendly forces before the attack","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And Saul said to the Kenite, \u201cGo, turn away, come down from amidst the Amalekite, lest I sweep you away together with him, for you did kindness to all the Israelites when they came up from Egypt.\u201d And the Kenite turned away from the midst of Amalek. (15:6) <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Commentary: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Go, turn away, come down from amidst<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These overlapping imperative verbs are obviously meant to underscore the urgency of the command. The Kenites appear to have been a tribe of migratory metalsmiths (the meaning of their name) somehow allied with Israel (compare Judges 4-5), although the nature of the \u201ckindness\u201d they did for Israel is not known.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From: Robert Alter, <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Hebrew Bible<\/span><\/em><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. Norton &amp; Co., 2019, ad loc. 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