Eli recently completed his MA at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, focusing on the Bible .Nowadays, he teaches Bible, Jewish Philosophy and Mathematics in ”The Beit Hinuch high school” in Jerusa
February 13th, 2010 08:45 AM ET

Benaiah the son of Jehoiada- a great warrior or a terminator- part 1

We all know the famous movie "the terminator" which speaks about the world in the future, when the machines and the technology rule over the world. The man from the other side is becoming a slave to the machine in that movie and some will say that he is already the slave of the technology in this generation - the Ipod generation - all in one click....
Today we will speak about a hero, a warrior; some will say the ultimate one, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada.

Benaiah is the ultimate person, he can do a lot of things, he is a priest, he is the son a warrior so that his power goes from the genes of his father, though that he wasn't a king or prophet, the scriptures described him as doing brave things like the next verse from 2 Samuel 23:20 as written:
"וּבְנָיָהוּ בֶן-יְהוֹיָדָע בֶּן-אִישׁ-חי (חַיִל) רַב-פְּעָלִים, מִקַּבְצְאֵל; הוּא הִכָּה, אֵת שְׁנֵי אֲרִאֵל מוֹאָב, וְהוּא יָרַד וְהִכָּה אֶת-האריה (הָאֲרִי) בְּתוֹךְ הַבֹּאר, בְּיוֹם הַשָּׁלֶג"
"And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, he smote the two altar-hearths of Moab; he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow;"

The reason that I am telling this story is in order to let you know that there are some warriors who doesn't need a chapter or two in order to be well known, we need only one verse to understand what is a warrior even if it snows in that day!

Main phrases of the post + transcription + translation:
Hebrew  Transcription Translation
שֶׁלֶג        šeleg            Snow
לוֹחֵם        lôhēm          Warrior
אַמִּיץ        'amîts           Brave
אַרְיֵה         'aryēh           Lion
בְּאֵר          Be'ēr          Well
כֹּהֵן         kōhēn          Priest

Eli@eteachergroup.com

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