A lawmaker from the religious Zionist wing of the coalition recently used the term “ir ha’nidachat,” or the beguiled city – an Old Testament injunction to destroy a city where most of the inhabitants have began worshipping idols and who must therefore be killed and the city flattened: “And it shall be a heap for ever; it shall not be built again” (Deuteronomy 13:17).
Israel, Deuteronomy and World War Three
Israel, Deuteronomy and World War Three
Israel, Deuteronomy and World War Three
A lawmaker from the religious Zionist wing of the coalition recently used the term “ir ha’nidachat,” or the beguiled city – an Old Testament injunction to destroy a city where most of the inhabitants have began worshipping idols and who must therefore be killed and the city flattened: “And it shall be a heap for ever; it shall not be built again” (Deuteronomy 13:17).