In golf we look at new inventions and say ‘Wow,’ but then we look at golf history and see those same things from back a hundred years ago. Things like metal woods were produced back then but when metal technology developed they took off in the 1980s and 1990s.
Can the same be said for The Bible?
Absolutely, our personal and worldly pain and suffering is nothing new. The causes are nothing new and have been experienced by all ten billion people who lived on this planet before us except for one person—Jesus Christ!
But did Seinfeld steal something from the Old Testament in the Bible?
Was ‘Yada Yada’ portrayed as ‘Thus and Thus’ back in biblical days?
But the children of Israel transgressed the commandment, and took to their own use of the anathema… and the Lord was angry against the children of Israel.
And were defeated by the men of the city of Hai, and there fell of them six hundred and thirty men… and they slew them as they fled by descent: and the heart of the people was struck with fear, and melted like water.
Lord to Josue: Israel hath sinned, and transgressed my covenant: and have taken of the anathema… I will be no more with you, till you destroy him that is guilty of this wickedness… he shall be burnt with fire with all his substance, because he hath transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and hath done wickedness in Israel.
Josue made Israel come by tribes… which being brought by its families… bringing that also by houses… and bringing it man by man, he found Achan… confess, and tell me what thou hast done, hide it not… indeed O have sinned against the Lord the God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done.. I coveted them
There you have it Achan or Josue who wrote this book ‘Yada Yada’ his sin.
Trickery, Cunning, & Devise is present in the Book of Josue in terms of the ambush and the Gabaonites
Josue sent thirty thousand chosen valiant men in the night, and commanded them, saying: Lay an ambush behind the city: and go not very far from it: and be ye all ready. But I and the rest of the multitude will approach on the contrary side against the city. And when they shall come out against us, we will flee, and turn our backs as we did before, till they pursuing us be drawn further from the city: for they will think that we flee as before. And whist we are fleeing, and they pursuing, you shall arise out of the ambush, and shall destroy the city: and the Lord your God will deliver it into our hands.
Trick them like you are running like chickens and they will pursue you to their own detriment. The thrill of victory is sometimes the ego of defeat.
As for the cunningly devisingly Gabaonites…
All the kings beyond the Jordan… gathered themselves together, to fight against Josue and Israel with one mind, and one resolution.
But they that dwelt in Gabaon… cunningly devisingly… and they went to Josue in the camp at Galgal… we come from a far country, desiring to make peace with you… thy servants are come in the name of the Lord thy God… by reason of this very long journey are worn out, and almost consumed… and Josue made peace with them, and entering into a league promised that they should not be slain…
Josue: Perhaps you dwell in the land which falls to out lot; if so, we can make no league with you… now three days after the league was made, they heard that they dwelt nigh, and they should be among them… but so let them live, as to serve the whole magnitude in hewing wood, and bringing in water… therefore you should be under a curse, and your race will always be hewers of wood, and carriers of water unto the house of my God.
Make it look like you came from a thousand miles away instead of next door.
Modern terminology: Deceitfulness.
After all that, Josue, like Moses was true in heart to God and God led him to lead the children of Israel to Him.
Josue built an altar and he wrote upon stones the Deuteronomy of the Law of Moses, which he had ordered before the children of Israel.
After that he read all the words of the blessing and the cursing, and all things that were written in the book of law.
Take heed, don’t be ‘Yada Yada’ your sin or your ‘Thus and Thus’ fate might be like Achan’s.
And oh by the way, ‘Thus and Thus” and the walls of Jericho came tumbling down…
Lord to Josue: Go round about the city, all ye fighting men, once a day: so shall ye do for six days. And on the seventh day the priests shall take the seven trumpets, which are used in the jubilee, and shall go before the ark of the covenant: and you shall go about the city seven times, and the priests shall sound the trumpets… all the people shall shout together with a very great shout, and the walls of the city shall fall to the ground, and they shall enter in every one at the place against which they shall stand.
Josue to Israel: Shout: for the Lord hath delivered the city to you, and let this city be an anathema, and all things that are in it, to the Lord. Let only Rehab the harlot live, and all that are with her in the house: for she hid the messengers whom we sent.
Day 73: Reading The Bible with a TROML Perspective; Seinfeld’s ‘Yada Yada’ was Achan’s ‘Thus and Thus’ in The Bible.
Read and inspired by the Old Testament, The Book of Josue Chapters 5-9
Bible Notes:
This Book is so called, because it was written in large part by Josue and is a history of the Jews under his rule. It records the Jewish conquest of the Promised Land, its final distribution, and the last address and death of Josue.
Josue Chapter 5: Amorrhites and Chanaanites fear Israel; Rite of circumcision restored; Passover at Galgal; Manna ceases; Josue talks with an angel.
Their heart failed them, and there remained no spirit in them, fearing the coming in of the children of Israel.
Josue did as the Lord commanded, and he circumcised the children of Israel in the hill of the foreskins… They remained in the same place of the camp, until they were healed.
And they ate of the next day unleavened bread of the corn of the land, and frumenty of the same year. And the manna ceased after they ate the corn of the land…
Angel to Josue: I am the prince of the host of the Lord, and now I am come… Loose they shoes off thy feet: for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. And Josue did as he was commanded.
Josue Chapter 6: God’s instructions for taking Jericho; Josue orders the siege; Jericho is compassed each day for six days; The walls of Jericho fall; Rahah and her family are saved; Destruction of Jericho; Josue curses him who will rebuild Jericho.
Now Jericho was close shut up and fenced, for fear of the children of Israel, and no man durst go out or come in.
Lord to Josue: Go round about the city, all ye fighting men, once a day: so shall ye do for six days. And on the seventh day the priests shall take the seven trumpets, which are used in the jubilee, and shall go before the ark of the covenant: and you shall go about the city seven times, and the priests shall sound the trumpets… all the people shall shout together with a very great shout, and the walls of the city shall fall to the ground, and they shall enter in every one at the place against which they shall stand.
Josue to Israel: Shout: for the Lord hath delivered the city to you, and let this city be an anathema, and all things that are in it, to the Lord. Let only Rehab the harlot live, and all that are with her in the house: for she hid the messengers whom we sent.
Anathema—anything laid up or suspended; hence anything laid up in a temple or set apart as sacred.
They burned the city… except the gold and silver, and vessels of brass and iron, which they consecrated into the treasury for the Lord.
And the Lord was with Josue, and his name was noised throughout all the land.
Josue Chapter 7: The sin of Achan; The Israelites are defeated at Hai; Josue’s distress; The Lord speaks to Josue; Achan’s sin is discovered; Destruction of Achan and his family.
But the children of Israel transgressed the commandment, and took to their own use of the anathema… and the Lord was angry against the children of Israel.
And were defeated by the men of the city of Hai, and there fell of them six hundred and thirty men… and they slew them as they fled by descent: and the heart of the people was struck with fear, and melted like water.
Lord to Josue: Israel hath sinned, and transgressed my covenant: and have taken of the anathema… I will be no more with you, till you destroy him that is guilty of this wickedness… he shall be burnt with fire with all his substance, because he hath transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and hath done wickedness in Israel.
Josue made Israel come by tribes… which being brought by its families… bringing that also by houses… and bringing it man by man, he found Achan… confess, and tell me what thou hast done, hide it not… indeed O have sinned against the Lord the God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done.. I coveted them
Josue Chapter 8: God commands Josue to capture Hai; The plan for capturing Hai; The ambush; The capture of Hai; Destruction of Hai and its people; Josue builds as altar and writes the Law; The Law is read to the people.
Josue sent thirty thousand chosen valiant men in the night, and commanded them, saying: Lay an ambush behind the city: and go not very far from it: and be ye all ready. But I and the rest of the multitude will approach on the contrary side against the city. And when they shall come out against us, we will flee, and turn our backs as we did before, till they pursuing us be drawn further from the city: for they will think that we flee as before. And whist we are fleeing, and they pursuing, you shall arise out of the ambush, and shall destroy the city: and the Lord your God will deliver it into our hands.
Lord to Josue: Lift up the shield that is in thy hand, towards the city of Hai, for I will deliver it to thee.
Till all the inhabitants of Hai were slain… and he hung the king thereof on a gibbet until the evening and the going down of the sun… heaping upon it (the carcass) a great heap of stones, which remaineth until this present day.
Josue built an altar and he wrote upon stones the Deuteronomy of the Law of Moses, which he had ordered before the children of Israel.
After that he read all the words of the blessing and the cursing, and all things that were written in the book of law.
Josue Chapter 9: The alliance against Josue; Deceit of the Gabaonites; The Gabaonites reduced to bondage.
All the kings beyond the Jordan… gathered themselves together, to fight against Josue and Israel with one mind, and one resolution.
But they that dwelt in Gabaon… cunningly devisingly… and they went to Josue in the camp at Galgal… we come from a far country, desiring to make peace with you… thy servants are come in the name of the Lord thy God… by reason of this very long journey are worn out, and almost consumed… and Josue made peace with them, and entering into a league promised that they should not be slain…
Josue: Perhaps you dwell in the land which falls to out lot; if so, we can make no league with you… now three days after the league was made, they heard that they dwelt nigh, and they should be among them… but so let them live, as to serve the whole magnitude in hewing wood, and bringing in water… therefore you should be under a curse, and your race will always be hewers of wood, and carriers of water unto the house of my God.
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