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Hairy goats
Tue, 22/09/2009 - 13:37 — JamesPeter Leithart makes a wonderful observation about Jacob, Esau and Joseph.
He says this:
… read more »Esau is a “hairy man” (sa’iyr), something we learn only when Jacob dresses himself in goat hair to approach his father (Genesis 27:11, 23). Jacob becomes a hairy one, subbing in for his brother. The only other use of the word in Genesis is in 37:31, where it describes the “kid” killed to fool into thinking that Joseph has died. Both passages involve substitution, and both involve deception of a father.
1 Samuel 25 seems to be very important
Tue, 15/09/2009 - 08:48 — JamesI think this has struck me before. Re-reading 1 Samuel, we find that:
- Saul is rebuked by Samuel (1 Samuel 15)
- David has to flee to the Philistines (1 Samuel 21)
- The Ziphites betray David to Saul, then David spares Saul's life (1 Samuel 23-24)
- Samuel dies (1 Samuel 25:1)
- David accepts Abigail's gift, and marries her after God kills her fool of a husband (1 Samuel 25:2ff)
- The Ziphites betray David to Saul, then David spares Saul's life (1 Samuel 26)
- The Ziphites betray David to Saul, then David spares Saul's life (1 Samuel 23-24)
- David lives among the Philistine (1 Samuel 27)
- David has to flee to the Philistines (1 Samuel 21)
- Saul is rebuked by Samuel (1 Samuel 28)
