The Assassination......

that answer is God. answered in pireki avos tractate of the talmud. chapter 5 verse 8 of that tractate. God provided the first set of tongs by which other tongs are made.
 
I think answer RadarMan is looking for is TUBALCAIN Gen : 4:22 "... an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron"
 
I'll have to check out that passage in Pirke Avot. Meanwhile, in a similar spirit, here's a passage from Isaiah:

It is I who created the smith
To fan the charcoal fire
And produce the tools for his work
So it is I who create
the instruments of havoc.
No weapon formed against you
Shall succeed,
And every tongue that contends with you at law
You shall defeat.
Such is the lot of the servants of the Lord,
Such their triumph through Me

declares the Lord.

Isaiah 54:16-17
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Who is the PROPHET that hewed an enemy leader into pieces with a SWORD because of a certain king's disobedience to God's command, also, eventually cost this king the throne?

[This message has been edited by Scott Evans (edited 09 December 1998).]
 
I'll say Samuel, though I didn't take time to look up the passage to see what weapon he used.

King Saul was under divine instructions to make war against the Amelekites, kill them all, and let God sort them out. The Geneva-Hague conventions come a lot later. So King Saul and his army smote them until they were smut, except for their king, whom he spared. Samuel went ahead and killed the Amelekite king, and predicted, accurately, that King Saul would lose divine favor and his kingdom over the matter.

One wonders what the judgement would have been if Saul had killed the enemy king and nobles, but spared their taxpayers.

Some early Jewish commentaries suggested that Saul's successor, King David, may have been the descendent of yet another enemy king, Eglon the Stout, whose assassination started this thread. The Bible doesn't say that Ruth, the Moabite woman, was his daughter, but it doesn't say she that she wasn't.


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Another left-handed blibical knifeman. It says something about the knife and surprise, I think.

And Joab's garment that he had put on was girded unto him, and upon it a girdle [with] a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out. 9 And Joab said to Amasa, [Art] thou in health, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him. 10 But Amasa took no heed to the sword that [was] in Joab's hand: so he smote him therewith in the fifth [rib], and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died.
 
I believe this is II Samuel Chapter 20 (KJV).
Here we are, back to a good plan and a tactic. I again find it interesting that the element to the story that leads to the success is the TACTICS not necessarily the WEAPON. Not to down play the need for a good tool when in the field or camping or such but these guys were on missions adhering to the old USMC moto ONE SHOT ONE KILL! I am sure every consideration was given the weapon but not to the point of overkill....just kill.


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Common tactic in this thread: First gain your enemy's confidence, and then abuse it.

Joab is an "interesting" character. He works for King David, and saves King David's bacon (figuratively speaking) many times, having more "practical" attitute than his employer had, for dealing with his fellow barbarians. And many times he kills people with malice aforethought against King David's direct orders (like finding Absalom hung up by his hair, and using him as a javelin target), but King David cannot fire him, but leaves it to his successor to terminate Joab with extreme prejudice.


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