"Jeff" wrote in message news | Bob Crantz wrote:
| "Lady Pilot" wrote in message
| news:mxeaf.314$Kv.312@dukeread05...
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| Proverbs 31:1-7 ***
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| 3 Do not give your vital energy to women, nor your ways to [what leads
| to]
| wiping out kings.
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| Amen!
| Hahahaaaa! Do you really think Neal is a king? King Solomon, who was the
| son of King David by his wife Bathsheba, had 700 wives and 300 concubines.
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| Before acting on the last of the proverbs, read carefully the first. "nor
| your ways to wiping out kings" in no way asserts Neal is a king.
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| Actually the meaning of the phrase is unclear in the original and the
| translations are just speculations. Another version is "Do not give
| your strength to woman, your vigor to those who destroy kings."
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| This is one of those curious parts of the Old Testament that was
| probably not actually originally Hebrew.



Much of the Old Testament has been superceded by the New Testament.
In the sermon on the mount Jesus clarified many of the old commandments
and expanded upon them. "Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or
the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill." --Matthew 5:17

I think Jesus paraphrased the above statement about not giving your
strength to women and your vigor to destroying kings when He said:
"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on Earth, where moth and rust
destroy and where thieves break in and steal" --Matthew 6:19

CN