re: Drone tech is getting more terrifying

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Revelation 9:3-4

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Hey I couldn’t remember which thread it was that you brought up the NET Bible. I found this nugget today that I think you’d like.

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2 Kings 3:27 tn Heb “there was great anger against Israel.”sn The meaning of this statement is uncertain, for the subject of the anger is not indicated. Except for two relatively late texts, the noun ????? (qetsef) refers to an outburst of divine anger. But it seems unlikely the Lord would be angry with Israel, for he placed his stamp of approval on the campaign (vv. 16-19). D. N. Freedman suggests the narrator, who obviously has a bias against the Omride dynasty, included this observation to show that the Lord would not allow the Israelite king to “have an undiluted victory” (as quoted in M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings [AB], 52, n. 8). Some suggest that the original source identified Chemosh the Moabite god as the subject and that his name was later suppressed by a conscientious scribe, but this proposal raises more questions than it answers. For a discussion of various views, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 47-48, 51-52.

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I’m glad they brought up Chemosh. Obviously that’s the god who Mesha would have sacrificed his son to. Mesha even wrote his victory stele that we can affirm the historical bits from the book of 2 Kings.

Let me translate their note that I underlined.

“But acknowledging the obvious is very inconvenient to our deeply held beliefs and dogmas…”

I know I have brought up these verses to you before to show you the biblical authors believed in powerful enemy gods that sometimes defeated Yahweh. It was nice that the NET translators made this footnote. I think most of the time you guys think I just make shite up. Everything I get is from scholarly sources.