{"id":61035,"date":"2019-08-13T11:21:23","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T08:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=61035"},"modified":"2023-03-06T11:31:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T09:31:25","slug":"a-story-of-multiple-covenants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/a-story-of-multiple-covenants\/","title":{"rendered":"A Story Of Multiple Covenants"},"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":[395,834,885],"acf":{"old_id":"61035","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":60873,"related_cahpter":"284","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Covenants that endure despite foundations of deceit, beyond individual lives, that take into account both faults and afflictions","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The famine seems to come out of nowhere.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">David, after three years of seeking the cause of this tribulation, turns to God to inquire. And God tells him, \u201cIt is on account of Saul and on account of his blood-stained house; it is because he put the Gibeonites to death.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rashi expounds upon this answer. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On account of Saul<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, he states, who sinned and who was buried secretly and thus not eulogized with the respect due to him. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On account of his bloody house<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, because he wiped out Nob, city of priests. And <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">because he put the Gibeonites to<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">death<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, that when he wiped out the city of Nob he killed seven people from among the Gibeonites.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our story then actually begins in Joshua chapter 9. The people of Gibeon, appearing destitute, approached Joshua and proclaimed themselves to be foreigners, offering themselves as servants in exchange for a pact to spare their lives. Joshua agreed. Yet, the people soon learned that the Gibeonites were not actually from a distant country but were among their neighbors that they had set out to conquer. Nevertheless, the leaders of the community honored their treaty\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Saul, hundreds of years later, then violated this pact. While the text itself never tells the story explicitly, the verse, in referencing it here, tells us that it was in his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah that Saul sought to wipe out the Gibeonites.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">David seeks to appease the Gibeonites and asks them what he can do to make expiation for the sin of Saul. The people claim that they want nothing but seven of Saul\u2019s descendants. An eye for an eye, it seems. David gives them over and the Gibeonites impale Saul\u2019s descendants on stakes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And yet, David does not give all of Saul\u2019s immediate descendants. The text explicitly points out that he spares Mephiboshet because of David\u2019s covenant with his father, Jonathan (I Samuel 20).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the appeasement of the Gibeonites alone is not sufficient to end the famine. It is only when David properly buries the remains of Saul and Jonathan that God heeds the plea of the land. God, in allowing retribution for the sin of Saul, also demands redress for the injustice done against Saul.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And so we have a story of covenants: covenants that endure despite foundations of deceit, covenants that endure beyond the lives of those who sealed them, and covenants that persist despite factors some might assume to be grounds for termination. 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