Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Absalom had long hair?

So I was watching this movie on King David. In this one part Absalom tried to take over his father's kingdom and they had this big war.



There's a part of the movie where Absalom is running away from the soldiers and his hair gets caught in some tree branches and they kill him.



My question is this....wasn't it a sin for men to have long hair back then?? I think they really exagerated the length of his hair in the movie but in real life....his hair would have still had to been LONG to get caught up in trees branches.



What do you guys think?



Absalom had long hair?

The passage about Absalom getting his hair caught in the tree is Biblical (actually, some translations suggest that was his head rather than his hair). Anyway, many men had long hair in those days. You've doubtless read the Old Testament story of Samson and his long hair.



Absalom had long hair?

no



the sin was "rounding the corners of your hair as a guy"



you know the friars are the ones in sin over this issue



Absalom had no requirement to keep short hair



yet for the Modern Christian,



the subject is contentious, but it is according to 1 Corinthians 11:14 a shame for a man to have long locks of hair



Now in the old Testament, you aught to look at Samson,



He was blessed, if he kept his hair long, with super strength



Absalom had long hair?

I don't see why it would be a sin to have long hair "back then" any more than it would be now, and I think it is very likely that Absalom had long hair - pretty hard to get stuck in a tree by your hair if it's not pretty long.



Absalom had long hair?

It goes with biblical principle that "long hair is a curse to "him" who wears it."



Absalom had long hair?

there was no rule which made men cut their hair short, not then and not now.



And The story in the bible claims that Absalom was famous for his beauty, which in old times, probably referred to long beautiful hair, and was riding wildly on a Mule while escaping, and in his hurry, he rode under a type of tree that is easy to have such hair entangled in the growth.



Absalom had long hair?

Samson had long hair

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