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Shalom, everyone.
Those who have done our study of the fascinating book of Esther may be interested to know that this year the Feast of Purim starts at nightfall (6 PM) this Thursday, 25 February, and runs through 6 PM on Friday, 26 February.
Purim is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the deliverance of the Jewish people from Haman, an Achaemenid Persian Empire high official who received royal permission to kill all the Jews in the world's largest empire of the day, as recounted in the book of Esther.??Purim is celebrated all around the world, with participants eating, drinking, and partying as if there may be no tomorrow, because there may not be.
To observant Jews who fast the day before, the holiday is a time to read aloud the entire Megillat (scroll) of Esther on both Thursday evening and Friday during the morning service, to reflect on its meaning and the continuing threats of annihilation so as to prepare for the future, and to give gifts and food to those less well off.
So??? ????? ??? (chag Purim sameach, "Happy Purim"), everyone!? And may God bless you!
In the interim, I hope to see you via Zoom at 10:45 on Thursday, 25 February, to finish the perhaps not-so-delightful but ever-so-timely book of Lamentations.
??? ?????(yom nifla, "Have a wonderful day"),
Ray
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?? ?Chag Purim? to you too Dear Ray and thank??you for the info re the feast of Purim.? Esther is? one of my favourites,? and coincidentally? watched?the movie? this past Sunday.? ---------- Dear Ray,? ?Could you please give me some insight to put? into context?Lamentations 2:4??as to? ?how our God of love,? ?mercy, and forgiveness? would? ?"slay all who were pleasing to His eye"? Thank you . Linda
On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 20:11, Ray via groups.io <ray.sarlin@...> wrote: Shalom, everyone.
Those who have done our study of the fascinating book of Esther may be interested to know that this year the Feast of Purim starts at nightfall (6 PM) this Thursday, 25 February, and runs through 6 PM on Friday, 26 February.
Purim is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the deliverance of the Jewish people from Haman, an Achaemenid Persian Empire high official who received royal permission to kill all the Jews in the world's largest empire of the day, as recounted in the book of Esther.??Purim is celebrated all around the world, with participants eating, drinking, and partying as if there may be no tomorrow, because there may not be.
To observant Jews who fast the day before, the holiday is a time to read aloud the entire Megillat (scroll) of Esther on both Thursday evening and Friday during the morning service, to reflect on its meaning and the continuing threats of annihilation so as to prepare for the future, and to give gifts and food to those less well off.
So??? ????? ??? (chag Purim sameach, "Happy Purim"), everyone!? And may God bless you!
In the interim, I hope to see you via Zoom at 10:45 on Thursday, 25 February, to finish the perhaps not-so-delightful but ever-so-timely book of Lamentations.
??? ?????(yom nifla, "Have a wonderful day"),
Ray
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Hi Linda,
As you note, context is king in Bible interpretation.??Taken
out of context, the phrase “He (God) has slain all who were pleasing to His eye”
can seem perplexing.?After all, why would God single out and kill all the beautiful people
or, say, everyone using eyeshadow or rouge??
It certainly doesn’t seem fair.? But keep in mind that "pleasant to the eye" in this case doesn't necessarily mean physically beautiful so much as obedient to God and thus pleasing in His eye.
In Lamentations Chapter 2, Jeremiah laments over Jerusalem's misery as he?reflects on the terrible destruction of
Jerusalem by the Babylonian army.? However, he sees the hand of God on the use of the Babylonians as the agent of God's wrath.? Yes, the Babylonians savagely treated the Jews, but the reason that God allowed it to happen was that despite all prophetic warnings, including Jeremiah's own prophecies over 40 years, the people continued to rebel against God and revel in sin.??
Jeremiah observed that all were slain indiscriminately, including those pleasing to the eye and none were more pleasing to God's eye (in good times) than those who served Him in the Temple; even they were not spared His wrath when Nebuchadnezzar's army struck.??
Your question also actually hit on one of the small changes that modern Bible translations, including the NKJV in this case, make that can subtly change context.? To start, compare the KJV translation, the NIV translation, and the NKJV (a mix of the two):
He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all?that were?pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.? ?(KJV) Like an enemy he has strung his bow; his right hand is ready. Like a foe he has slain all who were pleasing to the eye; he has poured out his wrath like fire on the tent of Daughter Zion.? (NIV)
Standing like an enemy, He has bent His bow; With His right hand, like an adversary, He has slain all?who were?pleasing to His eye; On the tent of the daughter of Zion, He has poured out His fury like fire.? (NKJV)
Distilling the main points in dispute down:
(He)?slew all?that were?pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion;?he poured out his fury like fire.? (KJV)
Like a foe he has slain all who were pleasing to the eye;?he has poured out his wrath like fire on the tent of Daughter Zion. (NIV)
He has slain all?who were?pleasing to His eye;? On the tent of the daughter of Zion, He has poured out His fury like fire.??(NKJV)
So in the KJV, God slew all who were pleasing to the eye in the Tabernacle, whilst in modern translations, He simply killed all who were nice-looking.? There's a moral difference between killing those making a mockery of His Temple and just killing everybody willy-nilly because of their looks.??
Why focus on "in the Tabernacle" as per the KJV?? Because as we find in many Bible verses including Lam. 2:6-7 that He gave up and cast off the Tabernacle to the enemy because it was defiled by sin.? So whether it's palatable to us or not, the placement of the semicolon (;) in the KJV to qualify "those pleasing to the eye in the tabernacle" at least gives a reason why Jeremiah would single them out in Lam. 2:4.
What does the Hebrew say?? A direct translation of the Masoretic text would read (actual Hebrew words in boldface):
He has bent His bow like an enemy; he stood with His right hand as an adversary, and slew all [that were] pleasant to the eye of the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion; he poured out His fury like fire.
So if nothing else, the KJV seems to be more true to the Masoretic text than the NIV in this case.??
As usual, the NKJV publishers (Thomas Nelson) made a conscious decision to modify the public domain KJV with a bit of the copyrighted NIV by shifting the semicolon where they thought it wouldn't make much difference so that the NKJV was sufficiently different from the KJV that the NKJV could be copyrighted and thus sold for big bucks.? Note that they retained the KJV's word order (from the Masoretic text) and simply shifted the semi-colon as per the NIV.
This raises a second minor matter as to whether God poured out His fury like fire in general (KJV) or instead focused His Fury on the Temple (NIV, NKJV).? That's fairly simple to logically address.? After all, while the Temple was destroyed by the Babylonians, so too was the rest of the city including its walls.? Once again, the semi-colon placement in the KJV (and Masoretic text) makes more sense.
Thanks for your question, Linda.? I hope that I didn't overthink the answer.
Regarding watching the movie on Esther, don't think that the timing was a coincidence.? As the rabbis say, "Coincidence is not a Kosher word."?
Yom nifla.??
Blessings,?
On Wednesday, 24 February 2021, 03:36:47 am AEST, Linda via groups.io <linfordlinda@...> wrote:
?? ?Chag Purim? to you too Dear Ray and thank??you for the info re the feast of Purim.? Esther is? one of my favourites,? and coincidentally? watched?the movie? this past Sunday.? ---------- Dear Ray,? ?Could you please give me some insight to put? into context?Lamentations 2:4??as to? ?how our God of love,? ?mercy, and forgiveness? would? ?"slay all who were pleasing to His eye"? Thank you . Linda
On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 20:11, Ray via groups.io <ray.sarlin@...> wrote: Shalom, everyone.
Those who have done our study of the fascinating book of Esther may be interested to know that this year the Feast of Purim starts at nightfall (6 PM) this Thursday, 25 February, and runs through 6 PM on Friday, 26 February.
Purim is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the deliverance of the Jewish people from Haman, an Achaemenid Persian Empire high official who received royal permission to kill all the Jews in the world's largest empire of the day, as recounted in the book of Esther.??Purim is celebrated all around the world, with participants eating, drinking, and partying as if there may be no tomorrow, because there may not be.
To observant Jews who fast the day before, the holiday is a time to read aloud the entire Megillat (scroll) of Esther on both Thursday evening and Friday during the morning service, to reflect on its meaning and the continuing threats of annihilation so as to prepare for the future, and to give gifts and food to those less well off.
So??? ????? ??? (chag Purim sameach, "Happy Purim"), everyone!? And may God bless you!
In the interim, I hope to see you via Zoom at 10:45 on Thursday, 25 February, to finish the perhaps not-so-delightful but ever-so-timely book of Lamentations.
??? ?????(yom nifla, "Have a wonderful day"),
Ray
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Hi Linda, Ray et al, ? In this context, wouldn't 'pleasing to His eye' refer only to the fact that these were His chosen people and have nothing at all to do with physical attributes? Reading more recent translations leaves me with that same understanding. (I'm happy to be corrected if l've misunderstood anything here.)
As you stated,Ray, His anger overflowed after much provocation because of their stubborn disobedience and so He withdrew His Right Hand of protection, leaving the enemy to carry out the inevitable consequence of ignored conditional promises.
I suppose everyone was affected because the conditions applied to the nation as a whole and not to specific individuals. I suppose this will also be the case in End Time events.?
See you tomorrow, (well, as much as can be seen on a phone screen)!
Happy Wednesday, everyone.
PS Do you think we can attribute much importance to the punctuation when? seeking precision in meaning? Perhaps it tends to be subjective in places? Would welcome any further wisdom on that
Hi Linda,
As you note, context is king in Bible interpretation.??Taken
out of context, the phrase “He (God) has slain all who were pleasing to His eye”
can seem perplexing.?After all, why would God single out and kill all the beautiful people
or, say, everyone using eyeshadow or rouge??
It certainly doesn’t seem fair.? But keep in mind that "pleasant to the eye" in this case doesn't necessarily mean physically beautiful so much as obedient to God and thus pleasing in His eye.
In Lamentations Chapter 2, Jeremiah laments over Jerusalem's misery as he?reflects on the terrible destruction of
Jerusalem by the Babylonian army.? However, he sees the hand of God on the use of the Babylonians as the agent of God's wrath.? Yes, the Babylonians savagely treated the Jews, but the reason that God allowed it to happen was that despite all prophetic warnings, including Jeremiah's own prophecies over 40 years, the people continued to rebel against God and revel in sin.??
Jeremiah observed that all were slain indiscriminately, including those pleasing to the eye and none were more pleasing to God's eye (in good times) than those who served Him in the Temple; even they were not spared His wrath when Nebuchadnezzar's army struck.??
Your question also actually hit on one of the small changes that modern Bible translations, including the NKJV in this case, make that can subtly change context.? To start, compare the KJV translation, the NIV translation, and the NKJV (a mix of the two):
He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all?that were?pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.? ?(KJV) Like an enemy he has strung his bow; his right hand is ready. Like a foe he has slain all who were pleasing to the eye; he has poured out his wrath like fire on the tent of Daughter Zion.? (NIV)
Standing like an enemy, He has bent His bow; With His right hand, like an adversary, He has slain all?who were?pleasing to His eye; On the tent of the daughter of Zion, He has poured out His fury like fire.? (NKJV)
Distilling the main points in dispute down:
(He)?slew all?that were?pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion;?he poured out his fury like fire.? (KJV)
Like a foe he has slain all who were pleasing to the eye;?he has poured out his wrath like fire on the tent of Daughter Zion. (NIV)
He has slain all?who were?pleasing to His eye;? On the tent of the daughter of Zion, He has poured out His fury like fire.??(NKJV)
So in the KJV, God slew all who were pleasing to the eye in the Tabernacle, whilst in modern translations, He simply killed all who were nice-looking.? There's a moral difference between killing those making a mockery of His Temple and just killing everybody willy-nilly because of their looks.??
Why focus on "in the Tabernacle" as per the KJV?? Because as we find in many Bible verses including Lam. 2:6-7 that He gave up and cast off the Tabernacle to the enemy because it was defiled by sin.? So whether it's palatable to us or not, the placement of the semicolon (;) in the KJV to qualify "those pleasing to the eye in the tabernacle" at least gives a reason why Jeremiah would single them out in Lam. 2:4.
What does the Hebrew say?? A direct translation of the Masoretic text would read (actual Hebrew words in boldface):
He has bent His bow like an enemy; he stood with His right hand as an adversary, and slew all [that were] pleasant to the eye of the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion; he poured out His fury like fire.
So if nothing else, the KJV seems to be more true to the Masoretic text than the NIV in this case.??
As usual, the NKJV publishers (Thomas Nelson) made a conscious decision to modify the public domain KJV with a bit of the copyrighted NIV by shifting the semicolon where they thought it wouldn't make much difference so that the NKJV was sufficiently different from the KJV that the NKJV could be copyrighted and thus sold for big bucks.? Note that they retained the KJV's word order (from the Masoretic text) and simply shifted the semi-colon as per the NIV.
This raises a second minor matter as to whether God poured out His fury like fire in general (KJV) or instead focused His Fury on the Temple (NIV, NKJV).? That's fairly simple to logically address.? After all, while the Temple was destroyed by the Babylonians, so too was the rest of the city including its walls.? Once again, the semi-colon placement in the KJV (and Masoretic text) makes more sense.
Thanks for your question, Linda.? I hope that I didn't overthink the answer.
Regarding watching the movie on Esther, don't think that the timing was a coincidence.? As the rabbis say, "Coincidence is not a Kosher word."?
Yom nifla.??
Blessings,?
On Wednesday, 24 February 2021, 03:36:47 am AEST, Linda via <linfordlinda= [email protected]> wrote:
?? ?Chag Purim? to you too Dear Ray and thank??you for the info re the feast of Purim.? Esther is? one of my favourites,? and coincidentally? watched?the movie? this past Sunday.? ---------- Dear Ray,? ?Could you please give me some insight to put? into context?Lamentations 2:4??as to? ?how our God of love,? ?mercy, and forgiveness? would? ?"slay all who were pleasing to His eye"? Thank you . Linda
On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 20:11, Ray via Shalom, everyone.
Those who have done our study of the fascinating book of Esther may be interested to know that this year the Feast of Purim starts at nightfall (6 PM) this Thursday, 25 February, and runs through 6 PM on Friday, 26 February.
Purim is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the deliverance of the Jewish people from Haman, an Achaemenid Persian Empire high official who received royal permission to kill all the Jews in the world's largest empire of the day, as recounted in the book of Esther.??Purim is celebrated all around the world, with participants eating, drinking, and partying as if there may be no tomorrow, because there may not be.
To observant Jews who fast the day before, the holiday is a time to read aloud the entire Megillat (scroll) of Esther on both Thursday evening and Friday during the morning service, to reflect on its meaning and the continuing threats of annihilation so as to prepare for the future, and to give gifts and food to those less well off.
So??? ????? ??? (chag Purim sameach, "Happy Purim"), everyone!? And may God bless you!
In the interim, I hope to see you via Zoom at 10:45 on Thursday, 25 February, to finish the perhaps not-so-delightful but ever-so-timely book of Lamentations.
??? ?????(yom nifla, "Have a wonderful day"),
Ray
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Thank you Dear Ray and Christine for your? explanations and thus my improved? ?clarity? ?of the context . I too,? ? took it to mean? that? even the? people who were obedient? to God? ?were all slain.?? ?As they were? ?part of? Gods chosen people as a Nation.? Thank you again.? Linda?
On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 14:14, Christine <cjmcfadyen46@...> wrote: Hi Linda, Ray et al, ? In this context, wouldn't 'pleasing to His eye' refer only to the fact that these were His chosen people and have nothing at all to do with physical attributes? Reading more recent translations leaves me with that same understanding. (I'm happy to be corrected if l've misunderstood anything here.)
As you stated,Ray, His anger overflowed after much provocation because of their stubborn disobedience and so He withdrew His Right Hand of protection, leaving the enemy to carry out the inevitable consequence of ignored conditional promises.
I suppose everyone was affected because the conditions applied to the nation as a whole and not to specific individuals. I suppose this will also be the case in End Time events.?
See you tomorrow, (well, as much as can be seen on a phone screen)!
Happy Wednesday, everyone.
PS Do you think we can attribute much importance to the punctuation when? seeking precision in meaning? Perhaps it tends to be subjective in places? Would welcome any further wisdom on that
Hi Linda,
As you note, context is king in Bible interpretation.??Taken
out of context, the phrase “He (God) has slain all who were pleasing to His eye”
can seem perplexing.?After all, why would God single out and kill all the beautiful people
or, say, everyone using eyeshadow or rouge??
It certainly doesn’t seem fair.? But keep in mind that "pleasant to the eye" in this case doesn't necessarily mean physically beautiful so much as obedient to God and thus pleasing in His eye.
In Lamentations Chapter 2, Jeremiah laments over Jerusalem's misery as he?reflects on the terrible destruction of
Jerusalem by the Babylonian army.? However, he sees the hand of God on the use of the Babylonians as the agent of God's wrath.? Yes, the Babylonians savagely treated the Jews, but the reason that God allowed it to happen was that despite all prophetic warnings, including Jeremiah's own prophecies over 40 years, the people continued to rebel against God and revel in sin.??
Jeremiah observed that all were slain indiscriminately, including those pleasing to the eye and none were more pleasing to God's eye (in good times) than those who served Him in the Temple; even they were not spared His wrath when Nebuchadnezzar's army struck.??
Your question also actually hit on one of the small changes that modern Bible translations, including the NKJV in this case, make that can subtly change context.? To start, compare the KJV translation, the NIV translation, and the NKJV (a mix of the two):
He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all?that were?pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.? ?(KJV) Like an enemy he has strung his bow; his right hand is ready. Like a foe he has slain all who were pleasing to the eye; he has poured out his wrath like fire on the tent of Daughter Zion.? (NIV)
Standing like an enemy, He has bent His bow; With His right hand, like an adversary, He has slain all?who were?pleasing to His eye; On the tent of the daughter of Zion, He has poured out His fury like fire.? (NKJV)
Distilling the main points in dispute down:
(He)?slew all?that were?pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion;?he poured out his fury like fire.? (KJV)
Like a foe he has slain all who were pleasing to the eye;?he has poured out his wrath like fire on the tent of Daughter Zion. (NIV)
He has slain all?who were?pleasing to His eye;? On the tent of the daughter of Zion, He has poured out His fury like fire.??(NKJV)
So in the KJV, God slew all who were pleasing to the eye in the Tabernacle, whilst in modern translations, He simply killed all who were nice-looking.? There's a moral difference between killing those making a mockery of His Temple and just killing everybody willy-nilly because of their looks.??
Why focus on "in the Tabernacle" as per the KJV?? Because as we find in many Bible verses including Lam. 2:6-7 that He gave up and cast off the Tabernacle to the enemy because it was defiled by sin.? So whether it's palatable to us or not, the placement of the semicolon (;) in the KJV to qualify "those pleasing to the eye in the tabernacle" at least gives a reason why Jeremiah would single them out in Lam. 2:4.
What does the Hebrew say?? A direct translation of the Masoretic text would read (actual Hebrew words in boldface):
He has bent His bow like an enemy; he stood with His right hand as an adversary, and slew all [that were] pleasant to the eye of the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion; he poured out His fury like fire.
So if nothing else, the KJV seems to be more true to the Masoretic text than the NIV in this case.??
As usual, the NKJV publishers (Thomas Nelson) made a conscious decision to modify the public domain KJV with a bit of the copyrighted NIV by shifting the semicolon where they thought it wouldn't make much difference so that the NKJV was sufficiently different from the KJV that the NKJV could be copyrighted and thus sold for big bucks.? Note that they retained the KJV's word order (from the Masoretic text) and simply shifted the semi-colon as per the NIV.
This raises a second minor matter as to whether God poured out His fury like fire in general (KJV) or instead focused His Fury on the Temple (NIV, NKJV).? That's fairly simple to logically address.? After all, while the Temple was destroyed by the Babylonians, so too was the rest of the city including its walls.? Once again, the semi-colon placement in the KJV (and Masoretic text) makes more sense.
Thanks for your question, Linda.? I hope that I didn't overthink the answer.
Regarding watching the movie on Esther, don't think that the timing was a coincidence.? As the rabbis say, "Coincidence is not a Kosher word."?
Yom nifla.??
Blessings,?
On Wednesday, 24 February 2021, 03:36:47 am AEST, Linda via <linfordlinda= [email protected]> wrote:
?? ?Chag Purim? to you too Dear Ray and thank??you for the info re the feast of Purim.? Esther is? one of my favourites,? and coincidentally? watched?the movie? this past Sunday.? ---------- Dear Ray,? ?Could you please give me some insight to put? into context?Lamentations 2:4??as to? ?how our God of love,? ?mercy, and forgiveness? would? ?"slay all who were pleasing to His eye"? Thank you . Linda
On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 20:11, Ray via Shalom, everyone.
Those who have done our study of the fascinating book of Esther may be interested to know that this year the Feast of Purim starts at nightfall (6 PM) this Thursday, 25 February, and runs through 6 PM on Friday, 26 February.
Purim is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the deliverance of the Jewish people from Haman, an Achaemenid Persian Empire high official who received royal permission to kill all the Jews in the world's largest empire of the day, as recounted in the book of Esther.??Purim is celebrated all around the world, with participants eating, drinking, and partying as if there may be no tomorrow, because there may not be.
To observant Jews who fast the day before, the holiday is a time to read aloud the entire Megillat (scroll) of Esther on both Thursday evening and Friday during the morning service, to reflect on its meaning and the continuing threats of annihilation so as to prepare for the future, and to give gifts and food to those less well off.
So??? ????? ??? (chag Purim sameach, "Happy Purim"), everyone!? And may God bless you!
In the interim, I hope to see you via Zoom at 10:45 on Thursday, 25 February, to finish the perhaps not-so-delightful but ever-so-timely book of Lamentations.
??? ?????(yom nifla, "Have a wonderful day"),
Ray
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