There was never, in Biblical times, a need for anything as specialized as a truck accident lawyer, but there were a few “train wrecks” in the annuls of Bible history. One such example is the rise of Haman; if King Saul of Israel had listened to Adonai and obeyed with without question, Haman never would have been born.
You see, G-d ordered King Saul to wipe out the Amalakites completely, leaving no one alive. Shocked at the thought of such genocide, King Saul substituted G-d’s command for his own sense of mercy, sparing many lives that G-d told him to end.
One such spared like was that of King Agag, who went on to have his wife conceive and bear children; several generations from that family tree, Haman arose, carrying a generational hatred of the Jewish people with him, and rose with the threat of wiping out the Jewish people in their entirity, in the closing days of the Babylonian captivity.
Haman was Hitler long before Hitler was Hitler; both desired greatly to wipe out the chosen people of the G-d of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and both had shocking success before they were stopped at last. While King Saul believed he was showing greater mercy than Adonai, the merciful G-d, himself, Saul’s mercy was grossly misplaced; in the wisdom of Adonai, He was trying to prevent a great enemy of Israel from arising.
If only Saul had obeyed, there might never have been an occasion for the story of Esther, or the feast of Purim.
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