01-21-2022, 07:53 AM
Alright that really drives it home. I mean almost every book of the Bible is expressing the holiness of marriage in order to reflect the bride and the bridegroom message. Jesus was greatly stressing we get this. But I got a few more thoughts /questions. So that Hammurabi code I’ve read some of that was folded into the Law of Moses ( “folded like you said).Hamor, Shechem, and the sons of Jacob all speak to one another as though they are aware of the current law code to work out this situation. Exodus 22:16-17 seem to reflect the price to be paid to make Dinah Shechems wife and Deuteronomy 22:28-29. Maybe up in Deuteronomy 22:25-26 Shechem must only die, but it seems in the Law God is always seeking ways to preserve life.
Also over in Exodus 12:48-49 wouldn’t the Hivites be considered sojourners because of all the circumcision that Jacobs sons told them to do and they would become Israelites? So then with forgiveness and paying and doing as they were told they could marry? It would not be intermarriage then, right?
Another thing that makes me chuckle is how bad these Hivites wanted to get with the Israelites, like over in Joshua 9. God allowing these Hivites to fool Joshua and the princes to save their lives and it was cool for them to become slaves to Israel. Maybe they were smart? Maybe they were cowards? Maybe they were desperate? They did exalt the name of our God in Joshua 9:9. And God by the Holy Spirit did move the author of Joshua and Genesis to record these Hivites actions. The Word endures forever.
One more thing. After all the importance of Isaac getting a wife and Jacob getting a wife not from the Canaanites why was Jacob not watching while Dinah roams out to meet young women of the land? Jacob had all kinds of warnings from the marriages of Esau, Abraham was around til Jacob was about 15 and his dad Isaac made marriage law pretty clear. Did she have an escort that was a male servant that was sleeping on the job? Are we to assume?
Thanks everyone for hearing me out. Please correct me as needed.
Also over in Exodus 12:48-49 wouldn’t the Hivites be considered sojourners because of all the circumcision that Jacobs sons told them to do and they would become Israelites? So then with forgiveness and paying and doing as they were told they could marry? It would not be intermarriage then, right?
Another thing that makes me chuckle is how bad these Hivites wanted to get with the Israelites, like over in Joshua 9. God allowing these Hivites to fool Joshua and the princes to save their lives and it was cool for them to become slaves to Israel. Maybe they were smart? Maybe they were cowards? Maybe they were desperate? They did exalt the name of our God in Joshua 9:9. And God by the Holy Spirit did move the author of Joshua and Genesis to record these Hivites actions. The Word endures forever.
One more thing. After all the importance of Isaac getting a wife and Jacob getting a wife not from the Canaanites why was Jacob not watching while Dinah roams out to meet young women of the land? Jacob had all kinds of warnings from the marriages of Esau, Abraham was around til Jacob was about 15 and his dad Isaac made marriage law pretty clear. Did she have an escort that was a male servant that was sleeping on the job? Are we to assume?
Thanks everyone for hearing me out. Please correct me as needed.