Waters of Jealousy
 

I find this all rather interesting. What do you suppose this was about? What exactly were these 'waters'? The Bible encyclopodia I got this off of said "We have no record of this form of trial having been actually resorted to".

To put the fear of God in those lustful women.

LOL! How was the fear of God put into the lustful men?

Anyway, what exactly were these waters? How did this work?

It worked because God was involved, just like baptism works. :)

Seriously, I was being just a tad facetious when I posted.

ILG give me a little bit of time and perhaps I'll find something out for you on this.

I would like to hear some exposition on this.

Thanks, Scott. I wonder if there were any random 'tests' for the men like this. Just curious. I wonder if there is some sort of scientific basis for this or if it was just a faith thing.

ILG what book of the Bible is this passage found ?

Num. 5:12-31

ILG, obviously it was an act of divine intervention if drinking dirty water would cause her belly to swell and her thigh to rot.

It was, to use a modern cliche', a God thing.

It had to be.

This is one of those scriptures that makes no literal sense to me.

Where are the scriptures that cause the man who slept with her to have "thigh rot"?

To complicate matters more the man likely had three other wives....

So, if I am reading this right, there is just some dust and barley in there?

Or just some potion that had a particular chemical reaction.

How about divining in the form of water witching... It works - don't ask me how...

Like I said, it was an act of divine intervention.

I know it works.

People used to come get me when I was a kid because I could find water.

I quit after I got older, because I am not sure what the origination of that power is.

Yeah, but don't drink it just yet, we need a witness. :killinme

I guess it had to be. The encyclopedia said that there is no place recorded where they tried this. If it was just some dirty water with a little barley that's a whole lot better than some stomach potion that nobody could stomach. :D

MY Nelson NKJV study Bible says that the dust of the floor of the tabernacle to a vessel of holy water and the scrapings from the bill of indictment were signs of a spiritual reality.Holy Water and Dust symbolized that God was the One who determined the innocence or guilt of the woman who had come before the priest.

"All these happened unto them for ensample..."

I suspect there was a type being laid out here.

Since God is represented by the masculine, the groom, the husband, and since God is never unfaithful, there was no point in a type of that nature in the law.

I think it's just a sensitivity to a gravitational pull.

LOL! Well, my guts wouldn't rot out, I can guarantee you that. :thumbsup

The dirt was from the floor of the tabernacle thus sanctified added to the water it was a test if she had been guilty judgment would have come upon her. Again we do find water accompanies the trying of mankind to test faithfulness. Religious folks who claim to be His Bride fail the water test. Earth placed into the water speaks of man from the earth yet sanctifed it went into the water God became earthy as Son and the Name of the Son goes into the water as a test. In the water test the birth was promised as passing the test. The water test determined the birth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

believe me - it is much more complicated.

Your thigh rot and your belly swell are symbolic of a miscarriage of an illicit child if the woman was with child.
Hebraic thought comes into play here.

Okay. That makes more sense than throwing a woman who was thought to be a witch in the water and if she could swim she was guilty!:ursofunny

Are you suggesting what it might mean?

I'm gettin the hybee gebees... in this thread. I'm out!

See ILG if we read an eastern book with a western mindset we often miss alot.

Uh absolutely not. I am saying it's wierd.

The type and shadow thing.... I know... but it still had to be a real natural phenomenon to those who experienced it in the OT.

Okay, let's leave behind the types and shadows for a bit and try and determine what it meant for the Israelite people, okay?

Please expound.

A godly abortion?

If this happened today, I would be the first to denounce it as a doctrine from WACO.

Infidelity is a third group of actions that brought defilement to the camp.
A wife was considered a possesion of her husband.Unfaithfulness was an offense agains't her husband.
Paternity is harder to establish than maternity.

Why?

I have actually done some unscientific testing to see if it is in relation to gravity. IMO it is not. You can pick up ANYTHING you wish to find even plastic.

It's the witching thing.

Explain.

I know it runs in my mother's side of the family.

In every generation there would be one or two who could do it.

These were folks of Scotch-Irish descent, and there were a lot of other weird things that ran in the family too.

In my generation, I was the only grandchild who could do it.

Yeah. That's what I thought when I read it earlier today. It kind of freaked me out. BUt then, if it's just dirty water and barley....that makes me feel a lot better than some poisonous concoction that a woman would need to be delivered from!

I actually set out to prove it a hoax... and it blew my mind.

The more I tried to prove it wrong the more it appeared to work. I was finding underground 1" waterlines 5 feet under concrete (verfied)

and plastic gas lines - that were empty.