Prophetic Authority at בית אל
He called out bears to maul children. This is the shocking claim frequently made about 2 Kings 2:23–25. Yet the consonantal Hebrew text itself complicates that surface reading and reframes the event as a covenantal sign-act carried out under the authority of יהוה (YHWH; Yahweh; “He Is/He Causes to Be”), not a private eruption of … Read more