[Mesorah] David melech Yisrael

[Gershon Dubin]

It says vayishkav David im avosav, the exact same lashon used for many
other people in Tanach..

Gershon
gershon.dubin at juno.com
 
On Mon, 07 May 2007 19:54:16 -0400 Zev Sero <zev at sero.name> writes:
> It seems that I was unclear in my previous message on this topic.
> 
> What I'm suggesting is that "vayishkav im avotav" doesn't mean "he
> died", for a king or anyone else, any more than "vayigva" means 
> that
> in the chumash.  Rather, it means some other part of the 
> end-of-life-
> as-we-know-it process.  I'm suggesting that the Tanach never 
> actually
> tells us that any kings died, but we can infer it from the fact 
> that
> they lay-with-their-fathers and were no longer king, which usually
> involves death.  The Tanach doesn't tell us that they died, any 
> more
> than it tells us that they got sick or that they spoke to their
> families or that they left instructions, because it's not an 
> important
> part of the narrative.  The important part is that they vacated the
> throne, which we need to know so we don't wonder why in the next
> pasuk someone else is king.
> 
> What makes David special, I contend, is that we are given a 
> detailed
> description of his passing, which goes on for chapters, so it seems
> odd that at the end ikkar chaser min hasefer, his actual death 
> isn't
> mentioned.  This leads me to conclude that, like Yaacov Avinu, he
> didn't really "die" but merely lay-with-his-fathers, and is in that
> sense actually "chai vekayam".
> 
> 
> -- 
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