Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Related for Shevuot 70:12

כל שמות האמורים בנבות קדש במיכה חול ר"א אומר בנבות קדש במיכה יש מהן חול ויש מהן קדש אלף למד חול יוד הי קדש חוץ מזה שאלף למד והוא קדש (שופטים יח, לא) כל ימי היות בית האלהים בשילה

R'Eliezer said, are secular; R'Joshua said, are sacred. R'Eliezer said to him: Does He then promise, and not fulfil?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If, as you say, God is intended, why did He tell the other tribes to make war on the tribe of Benjamin, and then allow them to be defeated?');"><sup>18</sup></span> - R'Joshua replied to him: What He promised.

Tractate Soferim

All [divine] names mentioned in connection with Lot are secular38There is only one secular name in the Lot passages. The Tetragrammaton, which is of course sacred, occurs twice. The word ‘all’ is not intended to be taken literally (cf. N.Y.). except the last, viz. And Lot said unto them: Oh, not so my Lord.39Gen. 19, 18. Lot’s address to the angels is taken to end at not so, and then his petition to God begins, My Lord, behold, etc. [So the Targum and Shebu. 35b (Sonc. ed., pp. 205f).] All [divine] names mentioned in the story of Micah40Judg. 17f. are secular. R. Jose says: When they begin with Yod-he41The Tetragrammaton. they are sacred, but when with Alef-lamed42The word for ‘God’. they are secular except in the phrase the house of God was in Shiloh.43ibid. XVIII, 31. All the [divine] names which occur in the story of Naboth are sacred except in the sentence Naboth did curse god44Referring to one of the strange gods introduced by Jezebel. E.V. God. and king.451 Kings 21, 13. All the [divine] names which occur in the narrative of Gibeah of Benjamin46Judg. 20f. are secular according to R. Eliezer, but R. Joshua says: They are sacred. R. Eliezer said to him, ‘Is it possible that the Omnipresent would promise [victory]47According to Judg. 20, 18, 23 God told Israel to wage war against Benjamin, which implied that they would be victorious. and not fulfil?’48Israel was defeated on both occasions (ibid. 21, 25). R. Joshua replied, ‘The Omnipresent promises and fulfils’.49The Israelites did not appreciate that on the first two occasions God only told them that they may go to war but promised no victory. Only on the third occasion were they assured that Benjamin would be delivered into their hands (ibid. XX, 28). [37a]
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