demoninho

Just a quick question can't find it in the SAB but which city was so utterly destoyed and it's people so evil that the complete memory of them and their city was wiped out of memory, and in which passage?

Thanks,
A

-DM-

EX 17:14 God says that he will utterly blot out the remembrances of Amalek. (That remembrance is now permanently preserved in the Bible.)

-Don-

demoninho

Thanks, it's one of my favourite biblical contradictions / stupidities

JaeIsGod

Lol , thats just funny

DrJim

The order to destroy Amelek is also one of the 613 commandments as counted by the sages and Rabbis

Deuteronomy 25:19 "Therefore it
shall come about when the LORD your
God has given you rest from all your
surrounding enemies, in the land which
the LORD your God gives you as an
inheritance to possess, you shall blot
out the memory of Amalek from under
heaven; you must not forget.

don't forget to blot out the memory...

Wonderful stuff.

-DM-

1SA 15:7-8, 20 The Amalekites are utterly destroyed.
1SA 27:8-9 They are utterly destroyed (again?).
1SA 30:1, 17-18 They raid Ziklag and David smites them (again?).

demoninho

Damn now they're arguing that remembrance actually used to mean offspring:banghead:

You just can't beat them

Heathen Dawn

Nowadays the instruction to exterminate Amaleq is interpreted figuratively. עמלק (Amaleq) has the same numeric letter-value (gematria) as ספק (safeq), meaning “doubt” (both are 240), so the current instruction for the Jews is to exterminate all doubts they have about the Jewish faith. That’s what my rabbis told me.

Doctor X

"We did not REALLY mean for them all to be killed . . . and we did not REALLY mean for Saul to be punished for not killing them all. . . ."

--J.D.

Mathetes

Wow... They really try hard.

Is this kind of "cabalistic" interpretations common among contemporary Jewish theologians?

I mean, what if 240 was also the numeric value of the word "sausage", or something?