Most men who have been circumcised after reaching sexual maturity regret the procedure. Oh, you can find some who believe it was good, but you can also find many who think is was a bad idea.
Adult men usually do not give up their foreskins without a fight.
Go back & read the story of David and Saul. Saul asked for 100 foreskins from Philistines as the bride-price for his daughter. The practical meaning of this was that David had to kill 100 Philistines, because none of them would have given up his foreskin if he were alive.
David ended up giving Saul 200 foreskins from Philistines.
Must not have been very lucky to be born a Philistine.
The practical meaning of this was that David had to kill 100 Philistines, because none of them would have given up his foreskin if he were alive.
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No, the one reasoning behind this was that only the heathens, gentiles, would have foreskins...
The Jews were all circumcised...
It was like taking a scalp...a token..
Saul wanted to see the foreskins as proof that his enemies, the Philistines were dead...
Though he hoped that the Philistines would kill David...
And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king’s enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines. 1 Samuel 3:25
Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king’s son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife. 1 Samuel 18:27