1 Samuel 30:12-13 reads: "And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water,
three days and three nights. And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because
three days agone I fell sick."
well, i've see what you written in another foreign phrase comes to mind, perhaps you heard it: NON SEQUITOR! we learn 2 things about our little Egyptian friend: A) he hasn't eaten in 3 days and 3 nights and B) his master left him 3 days ago because he was sick. to which I would reply, and? they are different subjects! maybe, just maybe you are trying to imply the stopping of the food and the master leaving our simultaneous events. Now I'm sorry, but I don't see that addressed in the story. you might try to convince me of that but A) i'm not convinced and B) the onus would be on you to convince me.
And Matthew 27:63-64 says: "Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive,
After three days I will rise again. Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure
until the third day".
this section is even more problematic. If, as resurrection is going to happen until after three days, why would you only keep it secure up until the third day? additionally, we are talking about the Pharisees let me go to another example, let's look at Genesis 2:
1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?"
2 The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, 'You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden,
and you must not touch it, or you will die.' "
4 "You will not surely die," the serpent said to the woman. 5 "For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
you see here, Eve misquotes Adam. in the Jewish Midrash some say that the serpent thereby pushed even into the tree. When Eve saw that she did not die simply by touching the tree, she also assumed that you could freely eat of the tree. So what we see here that misquoting people is a dangerous thing.
The more references that you see, the more it becomes clear that "three days and three nights", "after three days" and "until the third day" can all mean the same thing according to Jewish custom. "Wesleys Notes" says this as commentary: "Three days and three nights - it was customary with the eastern nations to reckon any part of a natural day of twenty-four hours, for the whole day. Accordingly, they used to say that a thing was done after three or seven days, if it was done on the third or seventh day, from that which was last mentioned. Instances of this may be seen, 1 Kings 20:29, and in many other places. And as the Hebrews had no word to express a natural day, they used night and day, or day and night for it. So to say that a thing happened after three days and three nights, was with them the very same, as to say, it happened after three days, or on the third day. See Esther 4:16; 5:1; Gen 7:4, 12; Exod 24:18; 34:28; Jonah 2:1." And Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary says: "The period during which He was to lie in the grave is here expressed in round numbers, according to the Jewish way of speaking, which was to regard any part of a day, however small, included within a period of days, as a full day. (See 1 Sa 30:12, 13; Es 4:16: 5:1; Mt 27:63, 64, &c.)."
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