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In the latter part of this chapter (v.9 ff.), Hosea chastised Israel for exceeding in their wickedness even the infamous incident of the concubine of Gibeah (Judges 19), exemplifying their treacherous rejection of their destiny as God\u2019s people. In predicting their eventual comeuppance, he said: \u201cBut the din of war shall arise in your own people, and all your fortresses shall be ravaged as Beth-arbel was ravaged by Shalman on a day of battle, when mothers and babes were dashed to death together\u201d (14).<\/span><\/p>\n

The identity of Shalman and the location of Beth-Arbel puzzled the exegetes. Rashi (followed, again, by Kara) treated Shalman as a form of <\/span>shalom<\/span><\/em>, and dismissed the \u201cel\u201d suffix leaving <\/span>a-r-b<\/span><\/i>, yielding the notion of \u201cthe destruction of a peaceful people, set by ambush.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ibn Ezra, somewhat more matter-of-factly, simply said that Shalman may be the Assyrian king Shalmaneser, and Beth-Arbel is a place.<\/span><\/p>\n

Radak offered two interpretations:<\/span><\/p>\n

Shalman was an enemy well-known at that time, who came upon Beth-Arbel suddenly, ravaging it, felling mothers on their children, and leaving no survivors. Arbel was the name of a great man of that time\u2026 And my father [Yosef Kimhi] identified Shalman with Shalmaneser, King of Assyria, and Beth-Arbel with Samaria\u2014a house that God entrapped and seized on account of its sins.<\/span><\/p>\n

Modern scholarship has contributed the information that a Moabite king named Shalman is mentioned in the Assyrian annals as a tributary of King Tiglath Pileser and has identified several places named Arbel. One is situated in Assyria, another is just north of Tiberias, a third is in the Ephraim hill country, a fourth is in the Jezreel valley, and a fifth possibility is that it refers to a Mount Arbel (aka Irbid) in the Gilead range.<\/span><\/p>\n

Either way, the prophet is referring here to an act of wartime savagery whose details were well-known to his audience, and which was committed with extreme cruelty\u2014reminiscent of the incident attributed by the Prophet Amos to the Ammonites: \u201cWho ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead\u201d (1:13).<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":76441,"id":76441,"title":"hos10-explosion","filename":"hos10-explosion.png","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos10-explosion.png","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/shalman-beit-arbel\/hos10-explosion\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"hos10-explosion","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":76440,"date":"2020-06-24 15:38:16","modified":"2020-06-24 15:38:26","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1276,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos10-explosion-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos10-explosion-300x300.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos10-explosion-768x770.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":770,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos10-explosion-1021x1024.png","large-width":1021,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos10-explosion.png","1536x1536-width":1276,"1536x1536-height":1280,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos10-explosion.png","2048x2048-width":1276,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos10-explosion-1196x1200.png","post_full_size-width":1196,"post_full_size-height":1200,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos10-explosion-419x420.png","home_baner-width":419,"home_baner-height":420}},"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"Shalman, Beit Arbel","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"Savage, yes - 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