{"id":60135,"date":"2019-07-25T16:24:20","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T13:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=60135"},"modified":"2023-02-19T07:55:58","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T05:55:58","slug":"davids-righteous-judgement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/davids-righteous-judgement\/","title":{"rendered":"David\u2019s Righteous Judgement"},"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":[391,573],"acf":{"old_id":"60135","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33877,"related_cahpter":"271","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"More beloved than any Temple","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the beginning of our chapter, David first defeats the Philistines, and then the Moabites, two-thirds of whom he executes, though they were prisoners of war. Whatever spoils of gold, silver and brass he captured from these and other enemies, David took to Jerusalem, where he dedicated them to God (8:1-13).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our chapter goes on to record more generally that: \u201cThe Lord gave David victory wherever he went\u201d (verse 14).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are then told that \u201cDavid reigned over all Israel. And David executed justice and righteousness (<em>mishpat u-tzedaqah<\/em>) among all his people\u201d (verse 15).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Midrash (Deuteronomy Rabbah 5:3) uses this verse to launch into a discussion of the ultimate value of \u201cjustice and righteousness.\u201d This discussion opens with the verse: \u201cTo do what is right and just is more desired to the Lord than sacrifice\u201d (Proverbs 21:3) \u2013 \u201cFor sacrifices were offered only when the Temple was standing, but righteousness and justice are still practiced now when there is no Temple.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In continuing to discuss the superiority of righteous justice over sacrifice, the midrash continues with an imaginative narrative about the days of David. \u201cFrom the time that the prophet Nathan told David that he would not be the one to build the House of God (see the previous chapter), those who wished to curse David would say to him: \u2018It would be good that the Temple already be built.\u2019 To comfort him, God said to David that the righteousness and justice which you do are more beloved to me than the future Temple. For, it is said: \u2018And David executed justice and righteousness (<em>mishpat u-tzedaqah<\/em>) among all his people\u2019\u201d (verse 15).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rabbi Yehudah explained how David executed righteous judgement. He not only acquitted the innocent and condemned the guilty. But, if the one found guilty of a monetary crime did not have the means to pay up what he owed, David himself would make up the loss from his own resources. Rabbi Nehemiah objected strenuously to this interpretation, saying: If so, this would lead Israel to practice dishonesty (the guilty might take advantage of King David\u2019s generosity by pleading poverty)! 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