From: Stephen Williamson
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 9:19 PM
Subject: Hur, Bible men in the Background
Hi all
After we chatted about Aaron and Hur the other day, I’ve just been doing some reading on this second chap.
Dear old Hur, assisted Aaron in holding up Moses’s hands for victory when the battle against the Amalekites was heavy.
In Exodus 31:1-11 we are told his grandson Bezalel was especially anointed for work on the tabernacle.
He is furthermore listed in 1 Chronicles 2 as a descendant of Judah, his mother was Ephratah, another grandson was Bethlehem, yep, whose descendants then inhabited that little town of Bethlehem.
Now, some further background is as follows:
According to that old Jewish scholar, Josephus click here, his closeness to Moses was due to the fact that he was also Moses’s brother-in-law, Miriam’s husband.
And in scripture, he was appointed to look after the people along with Aaron, when Moses went up that mountain for the first time.
But then there’s no mention of him taking any further part in this Exodus adventure. Only Aaron is mentioned as being around when Moses comes down.
According to the teachings of the old Jewish scholars, this was due to the fact that Hur was killed by the Jews when he rebuked them for seeking an idol to worship. Pretty upsetting/intimidating for Aaron (not to mention Miriam) though, when it says in Deuteronomy 9 how angry God was with Aaron, it obviously doesn’t excuse Aaron from doing what he did.
But
yes, certainly helps explain Moses’s anger as well, when he broke those
tablets, and then called the Levites
What a time.
Blessings ☺ Steve
Stephen
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