Genesis 19:24, Two Yahwehs?

 Genesis 19:24, NASB 1995
"Then the LORD rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven" Cp. Amos 4.11; Isa 13.19; Jer. 50.40

Justin Martyrs’ main argument against Trypho!

• Dialogue 52-62

A combination of illeism and the repeat of a name!

1. Lamech said to his wives....” You wives of Lamech.” Genesis 4:23

2. The LORD said, “Moses shall come near to the LORD.” Exodus 24:1-2

3. Solomon assembled the people...before Solomon 1 Kings 8:1

4. Rehoboam came to Jerusalem and assembled all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin...to Rehoboam, 1 Kings 12.21

5. The LORD said “I will deliver them by the LORD.” Hosea 1:6-7

6. “I will make them strong in the LORD,” says the LORD: Zechariah 10:12

7. The LORD said to Satan, "The LORD rebuke you, Satan! The LORD, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you!" Zecheriah 3:2

8. Jonathan speaking to David about himself 1 Samuel 20.12-13

9. David speaking "May God curse David" 1 Samuel 25.22

10. Abner speaking "May God punish Abner" 2 Samuel 3.8-9

Amos 4:11

• "God" is often repeated in Hebrew instead of "I,” aka illeism.

• Many translations substitute “God” for the first person pronoun (“I”), e.g., "as I overthrow Sodom and Gomorrah," NIV; also NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT.

• Same idiomatic expression verbatim Isa 13:19 and Jer 50:40.

https://www.etsjets.org/files/JETS-PDFs/52/52-3/JETS%2052-3%20499-518%20Malone.pdf

The Bible Christadelphian Version

 

• Satan/Devil = evil human inclination;

• Fallen angels/unclean spirits/demons = mental illnesses

Deuteronomy 32.17

They sacrificed to mental illnesses that were no gods, to gods they had never known, to new gods that had come recently, whom your fathers had never dreaded.

Psalm 95:5a LXX

For all the gods of the nations are mental illnesses.

Psalm 106:37

They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to mental illness.

Job 1:7

The LORD said to evil human inclination, “Where have you come from?” The evil human inclination answered the LORD, “From roaming throughout the earth, going back and forth on it.”

Job 1:12

And the LORD said to the evil human inclination, “Behold, all that he has is in your hand. Only against him do not stretch out your hand.” So the evil human inclination went out from the presence of the LORD.