Karl: 1. You wrote: “But [in my priorpost] I also mentioned CRWYH David’s uncle, mentioned in 1 Samuel and 1Chronicles. Even by your reckoning, 1 Samuel comes before 2 Samuel.” But Karl, I Chronicles 2: 16, which youexpressly cited in your prior post, says that Zeruiah was King David’s sister,not his uncle. CRY is a kind of balsam, and -H is astandard west Semitic feminine ending for a woman’s name. I don’t know of anyone who claims thatCRWYH is a west Semitic name of a man that honors YHWH. Given what I Chronicles 2: 16 expresslystates, why would you think this is a man? And if -YH in this name honors YHWH, then what is CRW and how does ithonor YHWH? 2. You wrote: “[Chronicles] recordsevents that occurred before King David, [and] it falsifies your thesis.” No, my thesis is that from Genesisthrough I Samuel, there is not a single man’s name of an individual characterin the Bible that is a west Semitic name ending in -YH that honors YHWH. I further assert that the names “Uriah”and “Seraiah” in II Samuel are non-Hebrew names with a Semiticizing -H ending. That is no surprise, because Joshua 15: 63expressly tells us that Jebusites remained in Jerusalem to this very day, andAraunah, whose name also ends in -H, is expressly stated at II Samuel 24: 16 tobe a Jebusite. Thus in the books of the Bible fromGenesis through II Samuel, the first person who gives a son of his a westSemitic name ending in -YH that honors YHWH is King David. Yes! 3. Karl, you have not been able to cite a single name occurring fromGenesis through I Samuel that is the name of an individual male character inthe Bible that is a west Semitic name ending in -YH that honors YHWH. Jim Stinehart Evanston, Illinois
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