‘fairness’ expect of that person who has received Yahweh’s gifts of salvation. Indeed, one could say that it is by showing חסד that one demonstrates that one has in fact received these gifts. חסד ought, therefore, to be a consequence of דעת אלהים. What, then, is the content of this דעת? What is it that Israel must know? According to Wolff, it is the ‘knowledge of Yahweh’s acts of salvation and gifts of justice’;2 according to Zimmerli, ‘the “divine right” of Israel’.3 The knowledge of God is the