Chapter 38 part 4: The Life of Jacob

King Saul pronounces a ban on eating and his son Jonathan violates the cherem to eat honey / Yehonosson is spared from punishment and a Korban Olah is brought instead / A king's right to execute & pardon / The Assyrians import Kusim (Samaritans) into the Shechem area / The Kusim bring Mesopotamian idolatry to the Holy Land and are punished with lions / Two Jewish priests teach the Samaritans Torah / The Bad Samaritans antagonize the Jews / A cherem is imposed on eating kusi bread and they are banned from converting to Judaism / Later decrees against the kutim