{"id":58678,"date":"2019-07-02T14:57:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T11:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=58678"},"modified":"2023-01-24T17:31:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T15:31:27","slug":"standing-up-bravely-for-their-convictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/standing-up-bravely-for-their-convictions\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Standing Up Bravely For Their Convictions"},"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":[896,897,434],"acf":{"old_id":"58678","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":56118,"related_cahpter":"254","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Saul\u2019s soldiers refuse to kill the residents of priestly city of Nob. What would you have done?","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The phrase civil disobedience is widely associated with larger-than-life historical personalities, from Henry David\u2019s Thoreau\u2019s eponymous 1848 essay, to Mahatma Gandhi\u2019s protests on behalf of Indian independence, to Martin Luther King, Jr.\u2019s work on behalf of civil rights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet thousands of years prior to these and countless other examples, our chapter features perhaps the earliest recorded instance of conscientious objection in the West. Contrary to the king\u2019s orders, Saul\u2019s soldiers refuse to kill the residents of priestly city of Nob, whose only crime was to feed David and his band of men. They insist: \u201cThe king\u2019s servants would not raise a hand to strike down the priests of the Lord\u201d (v. 17). Only Doeg, the king\u2019s faithful servant, faithfully follows the king\u2019s decree: <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And Doeg the Edomite went and struck down the priests himself; that day, he killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod. He put Nob, the town of the priests, to the sword: men and women, children and infants, oxen, asses, and sheep\u2014[all] to the sword (v. 18-19).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Given that the second half of I Samuel repeatedly underscores Saul\u2019s shortcomings, the clear implication of the text is that the priests were not deserving of death, and that the soldiers were right to disobey orders. In the words of the classical commentator Rashi, citing the rabbis in the Midrash, \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One may think that [the command to follow a king\u2019s orders] means even to commit a sin; scripture therefore states \u2018Only,\u2019 [to exclude this case].\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of course, no two cases of civil disobedience are alike; many present a complex moral calculus, and allow no easy answers. Yet, at least in this early example, the prophetic position is clear: knowing that they might be killed for disobeying the king\u2019s orders, the men were right to nonetheless disobey Saul\u2019s orders. 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