{"id":59395,"date":"2019-07-14T18:24:55","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T15:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=59395"},"modified":"2023-02-05T16:26:09","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T14:26:09","slug":"davids-military-ethics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/davids-military-ethics\/","title":{"rendered":"David\u2019s Military Ethics"},"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":[834,364,434],"acf":{"old_id":"59395","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34243,"related_cahpter":"262","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"To the victors - all the victors - belong the spoils","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this chapter, David returned to Ziklag to discover that, in his absence, Amalekite raiders had attacked the town and carried off his wives, among others, as captives. After obtaining divine assurance of success (a fixture of those days, cf. 14:37, 22:10, 23:2, 28:6), he set out in pursuit, He then discovered an Egyptian slave, abandoned by his Amalekite master on account of his weakness (and, presumably, his inability to keep up the pace of the march). David nursed him to health. The lad repaid David\u2019s kindness by agreeing to reveal the location of the Amalekites.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">David successfully counterattacked and retrieved his wives and considerable spoils. A question then arose: Were the 200 men who stayed in the camp and did not actively participate in the battle entitled to a share of those spoils? The 400 active warriors* were inclined to deny them a share but David stipulated that \u201cas is the share of one who goes down to the battle, so shall be the share of one who tarries by the baggage; they shall share alike\u201d (24).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The equity evident in this ruling was so impressive that Scripture tells us that this practice became SOP for Israelite armies \u201cto this very day\u201d (25).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is also significant that David dispatched a part of those same spoils to \u201cthe elders of Judah\u201d (26) to be distributed amongst nearby towns that\u2014ostensibly\u2014had suffered at the hands of the Amalekites, whether out of the same sense of equity or as a practical way of obtaining their good will.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*<em>It is tempting to suggest that the 400 active warriors were those who were in David\u2019s company since he first entered Achish\u2019s service (chapter 21), while the 200 who \u201ctarried\u201d joined him only after he returned to that service later (chapter 27). It is also noteworthy that the number of Amalekites who managed to escape David is also given as 400 (17), suggesting that it is not so much an exact number as, let us say, the average size of a battalion.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":59407,"id":59407,"title":"isam30-share","filename":"isam30-share.png","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam30-share.png","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/davids-military-ethics\/isam30-share\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"isam30-share","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":59395,"date":"2019-07-14 15:24:42","modified":"2019-07-14 15:24:53","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1152,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam30-share-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam30-share-270x300.png","medium-width":270,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam30-share-768x853.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":853,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam30-share-922x1024.png","large-width":922,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam30-share.png","1536x1536-width":1152,"1536x1536-height":1280,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam30-share.png","2048x2048-width":1152,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam30-share-1080x1200.png","post_full_size-width":1080,"post_full_size-height":1200,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam30-share-378x420.png","home_baner-width":378,"home_baner-height":420}},"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"David\u2019s Military Ethics","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"To the victors - 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