Quote (WidowMaKer_MK @ Jun 10 2013 04:28am)
..your inclusion of that silly stick figure cartoon of course makes me doubt your sincerity . Did you even bother to read the 3 scholarly commentaries I provided for you ?
Like I said originally, the stick figure I found after searching Google. Yea...it made me chuckle and a child drew it.
I've read what you posted multiple times. Much of it only leaves me more confused., for example this part below.
which are fiercest, and especially when bereaved of their whelps, as these might be; the wood seems to be near to Bethel, perhaps in the wilderness of Bethel, of which see ( Joshua 8:15 ) ( 18:12 ) , and Reland F25 thinks it is the same with the wood of Ephraim, ( 2 Samuel 18:6 ) , though the Jews, to increase the miracle, say F26 there was no wood at all, and, if there was, that there were no bears in it; but though those creatures are mostly in northern countries, yet there were of them in Judea, see ( 1 Samuel 17:34 )
and tare forty and two children of them;
it seems there were more than these; but such a number of them they tore to pieces and destroyed; which was very extraordinary, and was an awful punishment for their wickedness, which they knowingly and willingly committed, and of their parents in them, who had trained them up in such impiety, and put them upon it, and sent them out to do it.