{"id":62921,"date":"2019-09-16T00:47:40","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T21:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=62921"},"modified":"2023-04-09T13:23:03","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T10:23:03","slug":"hit-me-or-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/hit-me-or-else\/","title":{"rendered":"Hit Me &#8211; Or Else?"},"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":[927,366],"acf":{"old_id":"62921","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34243,"related_cahpter":"307","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"An object lesson in the consequences of disobedience","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This chapter, which tells of the miraculous victory that God granted Ahab over the forces of Aram, contains, inter alia, one exceptionally memorable phrase and one particularly perplexing incident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Verse 11 is part of Ahab\u2019s retort to Ben-hadad, King of Aram, and the particularly memorable phrase is \u201cLet not him who girds on [his sword] boast like him who ungirds it!\u201d It has become an oft-quoted maxim cautioning against boasting about your intentions until you have actually accomplished something. It is rooted in the military experience; one who girds on his sword has not yet tasted battle, while he who ungirds it is a combat veteran.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The perplexing incident involves the anonymous prophet-in-training (we will deal with his identity below) who asked to be beaten (35 ff.). We eventually learn that he wanted to appear before the king disheveled and bruised as though he had been engaged in combat, but how could he have pronounced a death sentence on a fellow (36) simply for his failure to play along with his charade?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rashi, Radak, and Malbim are all essentially in agreement here. They suggested that since the prophet\u2019s message to Ahab was that he deserved to be punished for his failure to obey his instructions to kill Ben-hadad, he made the fellow who refused to strike him an object lesson for the consequences of disobedience. They assumed that his prophetic status was recognized by the other, so his refusal to comply was not just a personal affront\u2014which might well have gone unanswered\u2014but an offense against the prophet\u2019s principal, namely God. Indeed, his request, as reported by Scripture, included \u201cat the word of the LORD\u201d (35).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As to the identity of this prophet, a rabbinic tradition identified him with Micayhu ben Yimla, who makes a cameo appearance in chapter 22. 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