{"id":5886,"date":"2019-09-06T13:24:53","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T17:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/?p=5886"},"modified":"2019-09-06T13:24:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T17:24:53","slug":"1-samuel-713-were-the-philistines-expelled-once-and-for-all-or-only-temporarily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/1-samuel-713-were-the-philistines-expelled-once-and-for-all-or-only-temporarily\/","title":{"rendered":"1 Samuel 7:13\u2014Were the Philistines expelled once and for all, or only temporarily?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en-US\"><strong>Problem:<\/strong> This verse says that \u201cthe Philistines were subdued, and they did not come anymore into the territory of Israel.\u201d However, only a few chapters later (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?version=NKJV&amp;search=1Sa9.16\">9:16<\/a>; cf. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?version=NKJV&amp;search=1Sa10.5\">10:5<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?version=NKJV&amp;search=1Sa13.5\">13:5<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?version=NKJV&amp;search=1Sa13.17\">17<\/a>) they were repeatedly fighting the Philistines.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><strong>Solution:<\/strong> There are two ways to explain this difficulty. One is that it may simply be a strong idiom, not to be taken as excluding all future incursions on their land by the Philistines. In other words, \u201cthey came no more\u201d for some time. Or, it could simply mean that \u201cthey came no more\u201d at that time. A third possibility is that \u201cthey came no more\u201d to occupy and dwell in the territory of Israel, which would not exclude them coming back to fight again and again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problem: This verse says that \u201cthe Philistines were subdued, and they did not come anymore into the territory of Israel.\u201d However, only a few chapters later (9:16; cf. 10:5; 13:5, 17) they were repeatedly fighting the Philistines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-errors","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}