{"id":829,"date":"2012-07-27T21:14:02","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T15:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/intelligent-torvalds.74-208-171-134.plesk.page\/?p=829"},"modified":"2026-06-09T09:54:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T14:54:47","slug":"davids-forgiveness-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/religiousmind.net\/?p=829","title":{"rendered":"David’s Forgiveness, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

The irony<\/a> wasn\u2019t lost on me.\u00a0 I had a good laugh at myself as I realized I was frustrated with the Bible and complaining because God was too merciful.\u00a0 \u201cIf He would just follow the law, my life would be a whole lot simpler.\u201d\u00a0 True enough, dead is a whole lot simpler than alive.\u00a0 I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, I will show mercy to whom I will show mercy<\/em>1<\/sup><\/a> God said to Moses<\/a> after giving the law at Mount Sinai.\u00a0 I had certainly seen the verse.\u00a0 I will have mercy on whom I have mercy<\/em><\/strong>, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion<\/strong><\/em>2<\/sup><\/a> Paul reiterated<\/a> in his letter to the Romans.\u00a0 I had read that one, too.\u00a0 But it seemed so arbitrary and unfair I had blipped it.\u00a0 I wanted to think of God as good not evil, and righteousness meant obeying the law.\u00a0 Didn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

It was another crack in the shell<\/a> my contract with God had become.\u00a0 I experimented briefly with calling these events<\/em> \u201cconsequences,\u201d rather than punishments.\u00a0 But \u201cconsequences\u201d seemed to imply more universality than I believe to be the case here.\u00a0 This particular concatenation of events<\/em> is uniquely and personally David\u2019s life.\u00a0 So I called it \u201cDavid\u2019s personal karma from the hand of Jesus<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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David\u2019s personal karma from the hand of Jesus<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

You have killed him [Uriah] with the sword of the Ammonites.<\/p>\n

2 Samuel 12:9 (NET) Table<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

So now the sword will never depart from your house.<\/p>\n

2 Samuel 12:10 (NET) Table<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

For [Because] you have despised me by taking the wife of Uriah the Hittite as your own!<\/p>\n

2 Samuel 12:10 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

This is what the Lord says: \u201cI am about to bring disaster on you from inside your own household! Right before your eyes I will take your wives and hand them over to your companion. He will have sexual relations with your wives in broad daylight! [Table]<\/a> Although you have acted in secret, I will do this thing before all Israel, and in broad daylight\u201d [Table]<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2 Samuel 12:11,12<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\u2026because you have treated the Lord with such contempt in this matter\u2026<\/p>\n

2 Samuel 12:14 (NET) Table<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\u2026the son who has been born to you will certainly die.<\/p>\n

2 Samuel 12:14 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

This karma had something to do with David\u2019s sin, obviously, but it also had something to do with God\u2019s forgiveness.\u00a0 I can\u2019t actually recall how soon I began to wonder if it had something to do with \u201call things working together for good<\/a>\u201d and making David\u2019s \u201csins as white as snow<\/a>\u201d as well.<\/p>\n

If David\u2019s child didn\u2019t die as a punishment, why did he die? I began to ponder.\u00a0 Come on, I argued with myself, a child contracted a fatal disease and died three thousand years before the advent of modern medicine.\u00a0 What\u2019s the big deal?\u00a0 I agree with that statement, believe it or not.<\/p>\n

I was born in the middle of the last century.\u00a0 I was as thoroughly socialized in this age of medical advancement as anyone.\u00a0 I expect this medical advance to continue without foreseeable end.\u00a0 I don\u2019t take The Lord struck the child that Uriah\u2019s wife had borne to David, and the child became very ill<\/em>3<\/sup><\/a> literally.\u00a0 I assume this is an ancient manner of speaking, that the Lord\u2019s actual action was inaction, not protecting this particular child at this particular time from infection, or not healing this particular child after infection.\u00a0 I don\u2019t believe that every child\u2019s death is as theologically meaningful as this particular child\u2019s death.\u00a0 Nor do I believe that this child\u2019s death is a statistically random event mistakenly imbued with theological significance.\u00a0 The prophetic pairing of this child\u2019s death with David\u2019s contempt for Jesus infuses it with significance.\u00a0 And that significance is what I\u2019m trying to understand here.<\/p>\n

One more thing, the Lord Jesus\/Yahweh, whether by action or inaction, has taken full responsibility for this child\u2019s death: The Lord struck the child<\/em>.\u00a0 I realize it is more customary to argue that God\u2019s hand was forced because David had treated the Lord with such contempt<\/em>.\u00a0 I\u2019ve probably argued this way myself.\u00a0 But it seems to me now that any attempt to exonerate God by limiting Him, saying He was backed into a corner, or his hand was forced by some circumstance, is simply not to know Him.\u00a0 And I am always mindful now of what happened when Jesus took responsibility for Peter\u2019s denial<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One thought occurred to me early on:\u00a0 Perhaps the Lord Jesus didn\u2019t want David to have the blessing and benefit of a son by such ill-gotten means as adultery and murder.\u00a0 The Psalm I took as my point of departure is actually credited to Solomon (Psalm 127:3-5 NET):<\/p>\n

Yes, sons are a gift from the Lord, the fruit of the womb is a reward.\u00a0 Sons born during one\u2019s youth are like arrows in a warrior\u2019s hand.\u00a0 How blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them!\u00a0 They will not be put to shame when they confront enemies at the city gate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Though the pen was Solomon\u2019s the thought here seems to me to be David\u2019s.\u00a0 First, the warrior language seems more like David than Solomon.\u00a0 Second, my own, \u201cyeah, right\u201d response to this Psalm the first time I read it, informs me that a man is not likely to feel this way about his sons unless he has first been treated this way by his father.<\/p>\n

<\/a>My father advised me to watch out for women.\u00a0 They would try to trap and trick me into raising their children.\u00a0 At school I was learning other things about the evils of children.\u00a0 Children had real value in the past, helping out on the farm or in the family business.\u00a0 But during my childhood, though it may have been somewhat true for rich business owners, for most working-class families children were an unnecessary expense, a meaningless burden and a general nuisance to have around.\u00a0 Besides all this the population bomb defined the social and political climate of my upbringing.\u00a0 We were all going to die because there were just too many of us already.\u00a0 Children were not a blessing, but a curse, the punishment for sex.<\/p>\n

<\/a>This is as good a time as any to address The Social Construction of Reality.<\/p>\n

<\/a>As I became an atheist I thought I was being logical and consistently rational.\u00a0 As I turned again to a semblance of faith in God I thought I was being logical and consistently rational (though I was a bit concerned as I devoured the Bible that I was \u201cswallowing all this religious stuff hook, line and sinker\u201d).\u00a0 I assumed that I could not have been truly rational in both instances unless there was some fatal flaw in logic itself.\u00a0 The binary nature of logic seemed like the culprit to me.<\/p>\n

Its insufficiency is fairly obvious in law:\u00a0 \u201cHave you stopped beating your wife?\u00a0 Answer yes or no.\u201d\u00a0 But an axiom of more conventional logic\u2014either a statement or its negation is true\u2014seemed just as flawed.\u00a0 If one has any affection for truth, is it possible to believe one can know it by adding the word \u201cnot\u201d to an obvious falsehood?\u00a0 If I negate the word of Satan, the father of lies, do I then possess the word of God?\u00a0 I believe it?\u00a0 That settles it?<\/a><\/p>\n

That kind of instinctual argument doesn\u2019t mean much in logic.\u00a0 But the best I could conjure was the statement:\u00a0 Jackie must eat her vegetables.\u00a0 There is a world of potential truths between Jackie must eat her vegetables and the negation of that statement:\u00a0 Jackie must not eat her vegetables.\u00a0 Jackie might spit up her vegetables.\u00a0 Jackie might fling her vegetables against the wall.\u00a0 Jackie might dump the bowl of vegetables on her head.<\/p>\n

Of course the logician would counter with the formal:\u00a0 It is not the case that Jackie must eat her vegetables.\u00a0 Still, I hoped that even the most hardboiled logician might concede that he was resorting to this formalism simply to maintain the truth of the very axiom in question\u2014either a statement or its negation is true.\u00a0 I began to suspect that the two choices, true and false, were insufficient to account for reality.\u00a0 Reality was tripartite in nature\u2014three not two.\u00a0 I began to collect quotations for my magnum philosophical opus \u201cThe Tripartite Rationality Index.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/a>Also, to counter the \u201chook, line and sinker\u201d effect of reading the Bible, I began to search for ballast to keep me honest.\u00a0 I started with Why I am not a Christian<\/a><\/em> by Bertrand Russell<\/a>, but he didn\u2019t seem to know much about the Bible.\u00a0 Russell did introduce me, however, to Nietzsche<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I quit my job.\u00a0 It was no great sacrifice.\u00a0 I hated that job.\u00a0 I got a part time job, read Nietzsche, the Bible and everything else I could get my hands on, and collected notes for \u201cThe Tripartite Rationality Index.\u201d<\/p>\n

Finally, the day came.\u00a0 I sat on the floor in my apartment, arranging and rearranging my note cards in various relationships.\u00a0 I said to myself, \u201cYou haven\u2019t written a word yet.\u00a0 It\u2019s time to put up or shut up.\u00a0 What is the third thing?\u00a0 Describe it.\u201d\u00a0 I sat there all afternoon trying\u2014ever more clearly\u2014to define the third thing.\u00a0 In the end I couldn\u2019t distinguish my clearest description from faith.\u00a0 I picked up my notes, put them away, and enrolled in college for the second time in my life.<\/p>\n

<\/a>One thing was gained from my reinvention of the wheel.\u00a0 Before that afternoon the opposition of faith and reason was deeply ingrained in me.\u00a0 No matter what I thought or said, I believed at the very core of my being that faith was opposed to reason as reason was opposed to faith.\u00a0 After that afternoon, I believed at the very core of my being that faith and reason were joined in a virtually eternal pas de deux, or dance for two, swirling and twirling, tracing out ever more complex arabesques<\/a>, their patterns as individual and unique as the content of the faiths that started, and the individual application of reasons that sustained, their dance.<\/p>\n

<\/a>It was in college this second time, in a Geography class, where I first heard of The Social Construction of Reality<\/a><\/em> by Peter Berger<\/a> and Thomas Luckmann<\/a>.\u00a0 I wanted to read it.\u00a0 I went to the Library immediately after class.\u00a0 I intended to refute it.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t.\u00a0 I don\u2019t intend to endorse every aspect of Berger\u2019s and Luckmann\u2019s thesis.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure I understood every aspect of it.\u00a0 But that taken for granted knowledge\u2014this is the way the world works, this is the way things are done\u2014is a social construct handed down from generation to generation, locale to locale, family to family, even guild or occupation or virtual community to guild, occupation or virtual community.\u00a0 It is deeply internalized by all recipients, believed without question, twisted, bent, nudged and deformed by all manner of individual quirks, tastes and idiosyncrasies, until it no longer delivers the goods it was intended to deliver.\u00a0 And on that last point, Berger and Luckmann may have been overly optimistic.<\/p>\n

And though my conservative, evangelical, fundamental Christian upbringing made me desirous to argue \u00a0that reality is not\u2014and cannot be\u2014socially constructed, it was my socialization in that community that made me most aware that the knowledge of reality is, in fact, socially constructed.\u00a0 I had witnessed how alarmed and concerned my elders were any time they heard or read anything contrary to the laws of God revealed in the Bible.\u00a0 They couldn\u2019t very well deny the social construction of reality when they spent their lives trying to halt or reverse it (at very least,\u00a0they complained\u00a0about it) because it proceeded without reference to God, Christ or the Bible.<\/p>\n

No, it\u2019s not what I had meant by reality<\/em>; it\u2019s not what I had hoped for reality.\u00a0 But I was beginning to see that this knowledge of reality mediated my experience of reality. \u00a0And the knowledge of reality is socially constructed by parents and teachers and legislators and thinkers and writers and pundits and poets and entertainers and all manner of people, even theologians, priests and preachers.<\/p>\n

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Addendum: <\/strong>May 10, 2020
\n<\/a>A table comparing Paul\u2019s quotation of Exodus 33:19 from the Septuagint follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Romans 9:15b (NET Parallel Greek)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Exodus 33:19b (Septuagint BLB)<\/td>\n\n

Exodus 33:19b (Septuagint Elpenor)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\u1f10\u03bb\u03b5\u03ae\u03c3\u03c9 \u1f43\u03bd \u1f02\u03bd \u1f10\u03bb\u03b5\u1ff6 \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03bf\u1f30\u03ba\u03c4\u03b9\u03c1\u03ae\u03c3\u03c9<\/a> \u1f43\u03bd \u1f02\u03bd \u03bf\u1f30\u03ba\u03c4\u03af\u03c1\u03c9<\/a><\/td>\n\u1f10\u03bb\u03b5\u1f75\u03c3\u03c9 \u1f43\u03bd \u1f02\u03bd \u1f10\u03bb\u03b5\u1ff6 \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03bf\u1f30\u03ba\u03c4\u03b9\u03c1\u1f75\u03c3\u03c9 \u1f43\u03bd \u1f02\u03bd \u03bf\u1f30\u03ba\u03c4\u1f77\u03c1\u03c9<\/td>\n\u1f10\u03bb\u03b5\u1f75\u03c3\u03c9 \u1f43\u03bd \u1f02\u03bd \u1f10\u03bb\u03b5\u1ff6, \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03bf\u1f30\u03ba\u03c4\u03b5\u03b9\u03c1\u1f75\u03c3\u03c9<\/a> <\/strong>\u1f43\u03bd \u1f02\u03bd \u03bf\u1f30\u03ba\u03c4\u03b5\u1f77\u03c1\u03c9<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Romans 9:15b (NET)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Exodus 33:19b (NETS)<\/td>\n\n

Exodus 33:19b (English Elpenor)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\u201cI will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.\u201d<\/td>\nI will have mercy on whomever I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I have compassion.<\/td>\nI will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and will have pity on whom I will have pity.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Tables comparing Exodus 33:19<\/a>; Psalm 127:3<\/a>; 127:4<\/a> and 127:5<\/a> in the Tanakh, KJV and NET, and tables comparing Exodus 33:19<\/a>; Psalm 127:3 (126:3)<\/a>; 127:4 (126:4)<\/a> and 127:5 (126:5)<\/a> in the Septuagint (BLB and Elpenor) follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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<\/a>Exodus 33:19 (Tanakh)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Exodus 33:19 (KJV)<\/a><\/td>\n\n

Exodus 33:19 (NET)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

And He said: ‘I will make all My goodness pass before thee, and will proclaim the name of HaShem before thee; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.’<\/td>\nAnd he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.<\/td>\nAnd the Lord said, \u201cI will make all my goodness pass before your face, and I will proclaim the Lord by name before you; I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious; I will show mercy to whom I will show mercy.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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<\/a>Exodus 33:19 (Septuagint BLB)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Exodus 33:19 (Septuagint Elpenor)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03b5\u1f36\u03c0\u03b5\u03bd \u1f10\u03b3\u1f7c \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03b5\u03bb\u03b5\u1f7b\u03c3\u03bf\u03bc\u03b1\u03b9 \u03c0\u03c1\u1f79\u03c4\u03b5\u03c1\u1f79\u03c2 \u03c3\u03bf\u03c5 \u03c4\u1fc7 \u03b4\u1f79\u03be\u1fc3 \u03bc\u03bf\u03c5 \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03ba\u03b1\u03bb\u1f73\u03c3\u03c9 \u1f10\u03c0\u1f76 \u03c4\u1ff7 \u1f40\u03bd\u1f79\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u1f77 \u03bc\u03bf\u03c5 \u03ba\u1f7b\u03c1\u03b9\u03bf\u03c2 \u1f10\u03bd\u03b1\u03bd\u03c4\u1f77\u03bf\u03bd \u03c3\u03bf\u03c5 \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u1f10\u03bb\u03b5\u1f75\u03c3\u03c9 \u1f43\u03bd \u1f02\u03bd \u1f10\u03bb\u03b5\u1ff6 \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03bf\u1f30\u03ba\u03c4\u03b9\u03c1\u1f75\u03c3\u03c9<\/a> <\/strong>\u1f43\u03bd \u1f02\u03bd \u03bf\u1f30\u03ba\u03c4\u1f77\u03c1\u03c9<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n\u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03b5\u1f36\u03c0\u03b5\u03bd\u0387 \u1f10\u03b3\u1f7c \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03b5\u03bb\u03b5\u1f7b\u03c3\u03bf\u03bc\u03b1\u03b9 \u03c0\u03c1\u1f79\u03c4\u03b5\u03c1\u1f79\u03c2 \u03c3\u03bf\u03c5 \u03c4\u1fc7 \u03b4\u1f79\u03be\u1fc3 \u03bc\u03bf\u03c5 \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03ba\u03b1\u03bb\u1f73\u03c3\u03c9 \u03c4\u1ff7 \u1f40\u03bd\u1f79\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u1f77 \u03bc\u03bf\u03c5, \u039a\u1f7b\u03c1\u03b9\u03bf\u03c2 \u1f10\u03bd\u03b1\u03bd\u03c4\u1f77\u03bf\u03bd \u03c3\u03bf\u03c5\u0387 \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u1f10\u03bb\u03b5\u1f75\u03c3\u03c9 \u1f43\u03bd \u1f02\u03bd \u1f10\u03bb\u03b5\u1ff6, \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03bf\u1f30\u03ba\u03c4\u03b5\u03b9\u03c1\u1f75\u03c3\u03c9<\/a> <\/strong>\u1f43\u03bd \u1f02\u03bd \u03bf\u1f30\u03ba\u03c4\u03b5\u1f77\u03c1\u03c9<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Exodus 33:19 (NETS)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Exodus 33:19 (English Elpenor)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

And he said, \u201cI will pass by before you in my glory, and I will call by my name \u201cLord\u201d before you. \u00a0And I will have mercy on whomever I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I have compassion.\u201d<\/td>\nAnd [God] said, I will pass by before thee with my glory, and I will call by my name, the Lord, before thee; and I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and will have pity on whom I will have pity.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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<\/a>Psalm 127:3 (Tanakh)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Psalm 127:3 (KJV)<\/a><\/td>\n\n

Psalm 127:3 (NET)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.<\/td>\nLo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.<\/td>\nYes, sons are a gift from the Lord; the fruit of the womb is a reward.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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<\/a>Psalm 127:3 (Septuagint BLB)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Psalm 126:3 (Septuagint Elpenor)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\u1f30\u03b4\u03bf\u1f7a \u1f21 \u03ba\u03bb\u03b7\u03c1\u03bf\u03bd\u03bf\u03bc\u1f77\u03b1 \u03ba\u03c5\u03c1\u1f77\u03bf\u03c5 \u03c5\u1f31\u03bf\u1f77 \u1f41 \u03bc\u03b9\u03c3\u03b8\u1f78\u03c2 \u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6 \u03ba\u03b1\u03c1\u03c0\u03bf\u1fe6 \u03c4\u1fc6\u03c2 \u03b3\u03b1\u03c3\u03c4\u03c1\u1f79\u03c2<\/td>\n\u1f30\u03b4\u03bf\u1f7a \u1f21 \u03ba\u03bb\u03b7\u03c1\u03bf\u03bd\u03bf\u03bc\u1f77\u03b1 \u039a\u03c5\u03c1\u1f77\u03bf\u03c5 \u03c5\u1f31\u03bf\u1f77, \u1f41 \u03bc\u03b9\u03c3\u03b8\u1f78\u03c2 \u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6 \u03ba\u03b1\u03c1\u03c0\u03bf\u1fe6 \u03c4\u1fc6\u03c2 \u03b3\u03b1\u03c3\u03c4\u03c1\u1f79\u03c2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Psalm 126:3 (NETS)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Psalm 126:3 (English Elpenor)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Look, the heritage from the Lord is sons, the wage of the fruit of the womb.<\/td>\nBehold, the inheritance of the Lord, children, the reward of the fruit of the womb.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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<\/a>Psalm 127:4 (Tanakh)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Psalm 127:4 (KJV)<\/a><\/td>\n\n

Psalm 127:4 (NET)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.<\/td>\nAs arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.<\/td>\nSons born during one\u2019s youth are like arrows in a warrior\u2019s hand.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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<\/a>Psalm 127:4 (Septuagint BLB)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Psalm 126:4 (Septuagint Elpenor)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\u1f61\u03c3\u03b5\u1f76 \u03b2\u1f73\u03bb\u03b7 \u1f10\u03bd \u03c7\u03b5\u03b9\u03c1\u1f76 \u03b4\u03c5\u03bd\u03b1\u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6 \u03bf\u1f55\u03c4\u03c9\u03c2 \u03bf\u1f31 \u03c5\u1f31\u03bf\u1f76 \u03c4\u1ff6\u03bd \u1f10\u03ba\u03c4\u03b5\u03c4\u03b9\u03bd\u03b1\u03b3\u03bc\u1f73\u03bd\u03c9\u03bd<\/td>\n\u1f61\u03c3\u03b5\u1f76 \u03b2\u1f73\u03bb\u03b7 \u1f10\u03bd \u03c7\u03b5\u03b9\u03c1\u1f76 \u03b4\u03c5\u03bd\u03b1\u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6, \u03bf\u1f55\u03c4\u03c9\u03c2 \u03bf\u1f31 \u03c5\u1f31\u03bf\u1f76 \u03c4\u1ff6\u03bd \u1f10\u03ba\u03c4\u03b5\u03c4\u03b9\u03bd\u03b1\u03b3\u03bc\u1f73\u03bd\u03c9\u03bd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Psalm 126:4 (NETS)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Psalm 126:4 (English Elpenor)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Like arrows in the hand of a powerful one, so are the sons of those expelled.<\/td>\nAs arrows in the hand of a mighty man; so are the children of those who were outcasts.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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<\/a>Psalm 127:5 (Tanakh)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Psalm 127:5 (KJV)<\/a><\/td>\n\n

Psalm 127:5 (NET)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.<\/td>\nHappy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.<\/td>\nHow blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them. \u00a0They will not be put to shame when they confront enemies at the city gate.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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<\/a>Psalm 127:5 (Septuagint BLB)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Psalm 126:5 (Septuagint Elpenor)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\u03bc\u03b1\u03ba\u1f71\u03c1\u03b9\u03bf\u03c2 \u1f04\u03bd\u03b8\u03c1\u03c9\u03c0\u03bf\u03c2<\/a> <\/strong>\u1f43\u03c2 \u03c0\u03bb\u03b7\u03c1\u1f7d\u03c3\u03b5\u03b9 \u03c4\u1f74\u03bd \u1f10\u03c0\u03b9\u03b8\u03c5\u03bc\u1f77\u03b1\u03bd \u03b1\u1f50\u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6 \u1f10\u03be \u03b1\u1f50\u03c4\u1ff6\u03bd \u03bf\u1f50 \u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03b1\u03b9\u03c3\u03c7\u03c5\u03bd\u03b8\u1f75\u03c3\u03bf\u03bd\u03c4\u03b1\u03b9 \u1f45\u03c4\u03b1\u03bd \u03bb\u03b1\u03bb\u1ff6\u03c3\u03b9 \u03c4\u03bf\u1fd7\u03c2 \u1f10\u03c7\u03b8\u03c1\u03bf\u1fd7\u03c2 \u03b1\u1f50\u03c4\u1ff6\u03bd \u1f10\u03bd \u03c0\u1f7b\u03bb\u1fc3<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n\u03bc\u03b1\u03ba\u1f71\u03c1\u03b9\u03bf\u03c2 \u1f43\u03c2 \u03c0\u03bb\u03b7\u03c1\u1f7d\u03c3\u03b5\u03b9 \u03c4\u1f74\u03bd \u1f10\u03c0\u03b9\u03b8\u03c5\u03bc\u1f77\u03b1\u03bd \u03b1\u1f50\u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6 \u1f10\u03be \u03b1\u1f50\u03c4\u1ff6\u03bd\u0387 \u03bf\u1f50 \u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03b1\u03b9\u03c3\u03c7\u03c5\u03bd\u03b8\u1f75\u03c3\u03bf\u03bd\u03c4\u03b1\u03b9, \u1f45\u03c4\u03b1\u03bd \u03bb\u03b1\u03bb\u1ff6\u03c3\u03b9 \u03c4\u03bf\u1fd6\u03c2 \u1f10\u03c7\u03b8\u03c1\u03bf\u1fd6\u03c2 \u03b1\u1f50\u03c4\u1ff6\u03bd \u1f10\u03bd \u03c0\u1f7b\u03bb\u03b1\u03b9\u03c2<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Psalm 126:5 (NETS)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Psalm 126:5 (English Elpenor)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Happy the person who will satisfy his desire with them. \u00a0They shall not be put to shame when they speak with their enemies in a gate.<\/td>\nBlessed is the man who shall satisfy his desire with them: they shall not be ashamed when they shall speak to their enemies in the gates.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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David’s Forgiveness, Part 3\u00a0<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Back to David’s Forgiveness, Part 4<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
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Back to Fear – Genesis, Part 5<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Back to You Must Be Gentle, Part 3<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Back to Antichrist, Part 5<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
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Back to Romans, Part 81<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Back to Fear – Deuteronomy, Part 3<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Back to Fear – Deuteronomy, Part 4<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Back to Who Am I? Part 7<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
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Back to Atonement, Part 2<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Back to Atonement, Part 7<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Back to Fear -Deuteronomy, Part 14<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Back to Fear – Deuteronomy, Part 15<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Back to Forgiveness and My Religious Mind<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Back to Fear – Exodus, Part 1<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Back to Fear – Exodus, Part 6<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Back to Condemnation or Judgment? – Part 8<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Back to Father, Forgive Them – Part 3<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Back to To Make Holy, Part 8<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Back to He Takes Away, Part 2<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Back to Psalm 22, Part 2<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Back to Peter’s First Gospel Proclamation Revisited, Part 3<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Back to The Lost Son of Perdition, Part 5<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Back to Christianity, Part 2<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Back to The Day of the Lord, Part 2<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Back to The Day of the Lord, Part 6<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Back to Who Am I? Part 15<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Back to Exploration, Part 8<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Back to Exploration, Part 11<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Back to Balaam, Balak and the 24,000, Part 1<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Back to Antichrist, Part 6<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
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1<\/sup><\/a> Exodus 33:19 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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2<\/sup><\/a> Romans 9:15 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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3<\/sup><\/a> 2 Samuel 12:15 (NET) Table<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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