Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Differences between KJV and JST Joshua 11:20 and Judges 2:18

  

Josh 11:20:

 

KJV

1867 Inspired Version (RLDS)

For it was of the Lord to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, and that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as the Lord commanded Moses.

For it was of the Lord to destroy them utterly, because they hardened their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle; that they might have no favor, that they might destroy them in battle, as the Lord commanded Moses.

 

Old Testament Manuscript 2, page 73:

 


 

Verse 20th For it was of the Lord to distroy them utterly, because they heardened there hearts, that they should come against Israel, in battle; that they might [ha]<ha>ve no faver, that they might destroy them <in> battle, as the lord commanded Moses,

 

While the JST does, as it is wont to do, made changes to KJV passages that speak of God hardening hearts, it is not substituting a more “sugary” view of God: here, God wills to “destroy them utterly.” Hardly a rejection of the reality of God’s wrath against sin and sinners.

 

Judg 2:18:

 

KJV

1867 Inspired Version (RLDS)

And when the Lord raised them up judges, then the Lord was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the Lord because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.

And when the Lord raised them up judges, then the Lord was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for the Lord hearkened because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.

 

Old Testament Manuscript 2, page 73:

 


18 Verse The Lord hearkened

 

Again, as with Josh 11:20, while Joseph Smith removed the reference to God “repenting,” he added further force to the efficacy of intercession: here, God hearkens to the people due to their intercessions (“groanings”), showing that the belief that God exists in an eternal now and other aspects of “Classical Theism” (some of which many LDS naively accept) makes nonsense of any sound exegesis of the text.