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Abijah Succeeds Rehoboam
(1 Kings 15:1-9)
1 During the eighteenth year of the reign ofa King Jeroboam, Abijah became king over Judah. 2 He reigned for three years in Jerusalem. His mother was Uriel’s daughter Micaiah from Gibeah.
A war started between Abijah and Jeroboam. 3 Abijah started the battle with an army of 400,000 specially chosen valiant soldiers, but Jeroboam opposed him with 800,000 specially chosen valiant soldiers. 4 Abijah stood on Mount Zemaraim in the hill country of Ephraim and announced:
“Listen to me, Jeroboam and Israel! 5 Don’t you know that the LORD God of Israel assigned the kingship over Israel to David and his descendants forever by a salt covenant? 6 Even so, Nebat’s son Jeroboam, who used to serve David’s son Solomon, rose in rebellion against his own master! 7 Useless troublemakersc soon gathered around him, who turned out to be too strong for Rehoboam, because he was young, timid, and unable to withstand them.
8 “So now you think you’ll be able to withstand the LORD’s kingdom as controlled by David’s descendants, just because you have a large crown and have brought with you the golden calves that Jeroboam made for you as gods. 9 Haven’t you already driven away the LORD’s priests, the descendants of Aaron and the descendants of Levi? Haven’t you established your own priests like the people of otherd lands?
10 “Now as far as we’re concerned, the LORD is our God, and we haven’t abandoned him. The descendants of Aaron are ministering to the LORD as priests, and the descendants of Levi continue their work. 11 Every morning and evening, they’re offering burnt offerings and fragrant incense to the LORD, the showbread is set out on the pure table, and they take care of the golden lamp stand so its lamps can continue to burn every evening. We continue to be faithful over what the LORD our God entrusted to us, but you have abandoned him. 12 Now listen! God is with us to lead us, and his priests are about to sound their battle trumpets against you. Descendants of Israel, don’t fight against the LORD God of your ancestors, because you won’t succeed!”
13 But Jeroboam had sent an ambush to attack from the rear, so Israel was in front of Judah, with the ambush set in place behind them. 14 When the army of Judah turned around to look, they were being attacked from both front and rear, so they cried out to the LORD while the priests sounded their trumpets. 15 Then the army of Judah sounded a war cry, and God routed Jeroboam and the entire army of Israel in front of Abijah and Judah. 16 When the descendants of Israel ran away from the army of Judah, God handed them over to the army of Judah. 17 Abijah and his army defeated them in a tremendous slaughter that resulted in 500,000 special forces from Israel being slain. 18 And so the descendants of Israel were defeated at that time. The descendants of Judah were victorious because they trusted in the LORD God of their ancestors. 19 After this Abijah pursued Jeroboam and captured Bethel and its villages, Jeshanah and its villages, and Ephron and its villages.
Jeroboam’s Death and Asa’s Reign in Judah
20 Jeroboam never recovered his strength for the rest of Abijah’s life. The LORD struck Jeroboam,f and he died, 21 but Abijah continued to grow more powerful. He took fourteen wives for himself and fathered twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters. 22 The rest of Abijah’s accomplishments, his lifestyle and his memoirs are recorded in the Midrashg of the Prophet Iddo.
— 2 Chronicles 13 | International Standard Version (ISV)
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Cross References: Exodus 25:30; Leviticus 2:13; Numbers 10:8-9; Joshua 6:16; Joshua 8:4; Joshua 18:22; 1 Samuel 25:38; 2 Samuel 3:39; 1 Kings 12:28; 1 Kings 14:19; 1 Kings 15:1-2; 1 Kings 15:7; 2 Kings 18:7; 2 Chronicles 9:29; 2 Chronicles 14:11-12; 2 Chronicles 16:8; John 11:54; Galatians 4:8
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Okay I've had a night to reflect. I've read and reread chapter 71: The Jeroboam's Story.
It's another gam, but it's also another failed gam. The ships are too far apart. The Jeroboam's captain rows over, but can't come onboard. The ocean keeps pushing them apart, hindering conversation. Gabriel keeps interrupting, hindering conversation. There's mail on the Pequod for the Jeroboam, but it's for a dead man. And Gabriel returns it, violently. All attempts at connection are thwarted; by illness, by nature, by man (or angel), by death.
And the timing of everything:
“Hast thou seen the White Whale?” demanded Ahab, when the boat drifted back.
“Think, think of thy whale-boat, stoven and sunk! Beware of the horrible tail!”
“I tell thee again, Gabriel, that—” But again the boat tore ahead as if dragged by fiends.
Much like the Town Ho story and the absent gam with the Albatross, I think I'm going to have to read this one again.
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Saints&Reading: Wednesday, August 2, 2023
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THE HOLY PROPHET ELIAS/ELIJAH ( 9th. c B.C)
Saint Elijah, one who saw God, a miracle worker and a zealot for faith in God, was born of the tribe of Aaron from the town Tishba for which he was called the Tishbite. When St. Elijah was born, his father Savah saw an angel of God hovering around the child, wrapping the child in fire and giving him a flame to eat. That foreshadowed Elijah's fiery character and his God-given fiery power. He spent his entire youth in godly thoughts and prayers, withdrawing frequently into the wilderness to contemplate and to pray in solitude. At that time, the Jewish kingdom was divided into two unequal parts: the kingdom of Judah, consisting of only two tribes, the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, with their capital in Jerusalem, and the kingdom of Israel, consisting of the remaining ten tribes with their money in Samaria. The first kingdom was governed by the descendants of Solomon, and the second kingdom was ruled by the descendants of Jeroboam, the servants of Solomon. The most significant confrontation the prophet Elijah had was with the Israelite King Ahab and his evil wife, Jezebel. For they, Ahab and Jezebel worshipped idols and turned the people away from serving the One and Living God. Before this, Syrian Jezebel persuaded her husband to erect a temple to the Syrian god Baal and ordered many priests to serve this false god. Through great miracles, Elijah displayed the power and authority of God: he closed up the heavens so that there was not any rain for three years and six months; he lowered a fire from heaven and burned the sacrifice to his God, which the pagan priests of Baal were unable to do; he brought down rain from heaven by his prayer; miraculously multiplied flour and oil in the home of the widow in Zerepath, and resurrected her son; he prophesied to Ahab that the dogs will lick up his blood and to Jezebel that the dogs will consume her flesh, all of which happened as well as many other miracles did he perform and prophesy. On Mount Horeb, he spoke with God and heard the voice of God in the calm of a gentle breeze. Before his death, he took Elisha and designated him as his successor in the prophetic calling; by his mantle, he divided the waters of the Jordan River; finally, he was taken up into the heavens in a fiery chariot by flaming horses. He appeared on Mount Tabor to our Lord Jesus Christ together with Moses. Before the world's end, St. Elijah will appear again to end the anti-Christ's power (Revelation, Chapter 11).
ST. ALEXIS MEDVEDKOV, ARCHPRIEST OF UGINE (1934), ELIAS FONDAMINSKII (1942), PRIEST DEMETRIUS KLEPININE (1944), YURI SKOBTSOV (1944), AND NUN MARIA (SKOBTSOVA) (1945), OF PARIS
St Alexis Medvedkov, archpriest of Ugine (1934)
St Alexis of Ugine was born in Russia in 1867. Afterward, he went to seminary and became a reader and choir director at a St Petersburg parish. He felt unworthy of the priesthood but finally accepted ordination, encouraged by St John of Kronstadt. He was sent to serve a village 60 miles from the capital. As was the case for many priests, his meager salary was not enough. Side by side with his neighbors, he worked the land. Yet he also lived a life of mind and spirit, saving money to buy the writings of the Church Fathers. He was also a parent -- he and his wife had two daughters. His pastoral zeal was recognized -- in 1916, at age 49, he was made an archpriest. Then the following year, in the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution, he was arrested, tortured, and sentenced to death. Remarkably, his eldest daughter freed her father by offering herself as a hostage in his place. The effects of torture remained with him for the rest of his life. Because of nerve damage, his right eye was always wider than his left.
In 1919 the entire family managed to escape to Estonia, where Fr Alexis worked in a mine and then as a night watchman. In 1923 he became an assistant priest at a local parish, also helping in the parish school. In 1929, following prolonged illness, his wife died.
After this heavy blow, he was invited by Metropolitan Evlogy in Paris to come to France. He was sent to the town Ugine, near Grenoble, to serve as rector of St Nicholas Russian Orthodox church. A local factory employed 600 Russian immigrants.
He often celebrated the Liturgy on weekdays, Sundays, and feast days. He was known for how carefully he intoned each word when he stood in the sanctuary. After services, he would stay on to do memorial services and meet whatever other needs were brought to him by his parishioners, never charging money.
His congregation proved difficult. The parish council was dominated by secular-minded lay people of a military background, men used to giving orders, whose primary interest was politics. Some harassed Fr Alexis during services. Some were abusive. When insulted, he replied with silence. He patiently endured the criticism of those who regarded the services as too long or criticized him for not dressing better.
His health declined -- doctors diagnosed cancer of the intestines. In July 1934, he was taken to hospital. He died on the 22nd of August. On the advice of a physician who warned that Fr Alexis' cancer-ridden body would rapidly decompose, he was buried in a double coffin.
His parishioners, even those who had been hostile, came to remember him as an exceptionally modest man, shy, full of gratitude, prayerful, outgoing, compassionate, slow to criticize, eager to forgive, generous with what little he had, who never turned his back on anyone in need.
A friend who visited him during those final weeks of his life recalled him saying: "In my parish, the true parishioners are the children, the children of my parishioners ... and if those children live and grow up, they will form the inner Church. And we, too, belong to that Church as long as we live according to our conscience and fulfill the commandments ... Do you understand what I mean? In the visible Church, there is an invisible Church, a secret Church. In it are found the humble who live by grace and walk in the will of God. They can be found in every parish and every jurisdiction. The emigration lives through them and by the grace of God."
It was a life of ordinary sanctity -- small deeds of holiness performed daily that were either taken for granted or ridiculed. He might have been entirely forgotten had it not been for a decision by the Ugine town council in 1953 to build flats on the site of the cemetery. The remains of those buried in the old cemetery were moved. On the 22nd of August, 1956, precisely 22 years after Fr Alexis's death, workmen came to his grave and found that his double coffin had entirely disintegrated. Still, his body, priestly vestments, and the Gospel book buried with him had not decayed.
I have left out many details of his life. Still, you see the main lines: great suffering, endurance, patient service to impatient people, belief in the face of disbelief, an uprooted life, the early death of his wife, his own brutal death, a love of prayer, a constant witness to God's love -- and then a sign after death that served to resurrect his memory and inspired the decision that this humble priest ought to be remembered by the Church. The memory of the Church is the calendar of the saints.
St Eli Fondemensky of Paris ( 1942)
Born in February 17, 1880, in Moscow, Russia — November 19, 1942, in Auschwitz, Nazi-occupied Poland),
He was a Russian author (writing under the pseudonym I. Bunakov) and political activist in the 1910s, one of the leaders of the Esers party, in 1917, a senior member of Alexander Kerensky's Provisional government
In 1918, Fondaminsky took part in the Iași Conference. In Paris, where he has been living since 1919, Fondaminsky veered off from the left and became an influential newspaper editor (Sovremennye Zapisky, among others), author of philosophical essays, and in the later years — much-admired philanthropist, supporting Christian magazines and charity funds. In his biography of Mother Maria Skobtsova, Pearl of Great Price, Father Serge Hackel wrote that Fondaminsky gave occasional lectures at the Sunday afternoon gatherings at the house on the Rue de Lourmel.
Facing the Nazi occupation, Fondaminsky refused to leave Paris, saying he would accept his destiny, whatever it would be. Arrested in July 1941 as a Jew and sent to the concentration camp, he adopted Christianity and was received into the Russian Orthodox Church not long before being sent to Auschwitz. Ilya Fondaminsky died there on November 19, 1942, aged 62.
Priest Dimitry Klepinine (1944)
Father Dimitri Klepinin was born in 1904 in Russia to an educated, cultivated, devout Orthodox family. His mother, Sophia, helped establish Orthodox schools in Odessa, where they lived, and became active in providing help and support to the city’s poor. The Klepinin family fled Russia after the Communist Revolution, first residing in Constantinople, then Yugoslavia, and finally in Paris, France. A turning point in Dimitri’s life occurred in 1923 when his beloved mother died. He described this experience in a letter to a friend:
“…the first time I understood the significance of suffering…But joy returned to me when I remembered the Savior’s words: ‘Come to Me, all who labor and are heavily laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from Me; for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. I had come to my mother’s grave with the heavy burden of worldly worries. Everything seemed confused and unsolvable when suddenly I found the light yoke of Christ. I’ve never known a day more joyful than that day, and I thank God for all He’s given me to bear. After that experience, I reoriented my life, and it became easier to resolve certain problems."
In 1925, Dimitri enrolled in the St. Sergius Theological Institute in Paris, and after graduating in 1929, he received a scholarship to study in America at the New York Protestant Theological Seminary. Returning to Paris, he worked various jobs while remaining active in the Church, directing the parish choir. Dimitri married Tamara Baimakova in 1937 and was ordained by Metropolitan Evlogy. A daughter Helen was born in 1939, and a son Paul in 1942. Father Dimitri’s life was forever changed in 1939. He was assigned as the parish priest at the shelter for the poor operated by an Orthodox nun, Mother Maria Skobtsova. Significantly for his life and that of Mother Maria, that same year France was invaded and conquered by the German Nazis. Mother Maria (now St. Maria of Paris) had opened a home and shelter to minister to the poor of Paris. As the Nazis began the mass arrests of French Jews in 1942, many sought help and refuge at Mother Maria’s shelter. As a shield against deportation to a concentration camp, many Jews sought to obtain baptismal certificates from Father Dimitri. While initially troubled by engaging in such deception, he realized his Christian Faith and priesthood demanded that he act. He placed a small mark on the false certificates to remember which were authentic and which were not.
Christ would give me that paper if I were in their place. So I must do it… …If a man surprised by a storm takes shelter in a church, do I have the right to close the door?
During war, suffering, and mass arrests, one of Father Dimitri’s parishioners wrote of the experience of celebrating Pascha with him in 1942. It was to be his final Pascha at his parish:
Outside there were restrictions, anguish, and war. Here in the church, lit up by our candles, was our priest, all vested in white, as if borne on the wings of the winds. With his face radiant, he proclaimed, “Christ is risen!”. And we responded, “Truly He is risen!” causing the shadows to scatter.
In February, 1943, the Gestapo arrived at Mother Maria’s shelter and arrested Mother Maria, her son Yuri and several others. In Yuri’s pocket, they discovered a letter from a Jewish family to Father Dimitri requesting a baptismal certificate. Father Dmitri was absent during the raid, but the following day, he calmly celebrated a final Divine Liturgy in the church and went to face the Gestapo.
Two months later, Father Dimitri and Mother Maria's son Yuri were sent to a prison camp. In the camp, Father Dimitri continued to function as a priest. The Orthodox prisoners were permitted to set up a chapel where the Divine Liturgy was served daily. Father Dimitri could sketch the chapel, which he smuggled out to his wife. In letters he wrote to his family, he encouraged his wife to remain strong:
Make the morose thoughts go away with the Jesus Prayer, take Communion as often as possible…Don’t let despondency or irritation take root in you, and dash and confess to a priest.
Of his own life he wrote:
I am fully aware that the will of God is being carried out and that a new obedience in the Church is beginning for me.
After a year, Father Dimitri was sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany and then to the camp at Dora. His health was broken; suffering from pneumonia, he died on February 9, 1944, and his body was burned in the Buchenwald crematorium. When word reached his family that Father Dmitri had died, Metropolitan Evlogy officiated at a solemn funeral service in the Paris Cathedral. On January 16, 2004, Father Dimitri, Mother Maria, her son Yuri and associate Elia Fondaminski were all glorified as martyrs/saints of the Orthodox Church by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. Their memory is kept each year on their feast day of July 20
Saint Marie of Paris (1945)
Mother Maria was born in Latvia in 1891. Like many of the pre-Revolutionary Russian intelligenstia, she was an atheist and a political radical in her youth but gradually came to accept the truths of the Faith. After the Revolution, she became part of Paris's large Russian emigre population. There she was tonsured as a nun by Metropolitan Evlogy, and devoted herself to a life of service to the poor. With a small community of fellow believers, she established 'houses of hospitality' for the poor, the homeless, the alcoholic and visited Russian emigres in mental hospitals. In 1939 Metropolitan Evlogy sent the young priest Fr Dimitry to serve Mother Maria's community; he proved to be a partner, committed even unto death, in the community's work among the poor. When the Nazis took Paris in 1940, Mother Maria, Fr Dimitry, and others of the community chose to remain in the city to care for those who had come to count on them. As Nazi persecution of Jews in France increased, the Orthodox community's work naturally expanded to include protection and care of these most helpless ones. Father Dimitri was asked to provide forged certificates of baptism to preserve the lives of Jews and always complied. Eventually, this work led to the arrest of Mother Maria, Fr Dimitri, and their associates. A fragment survives of the Gestapo's interrogation of Fr Dimitri:
Hoffman: If we release you, will you give your word never again to aid Jews?
Klepinin: I can say no such thing. I am a Christian and must act as I must. (Hoffman struck Klepinin across the face.)
Hoffman: Jew lover! How dare you talk of helping those swine as being a Christian duty! (Klepinin, recovering his balance, held up the cross from his cassock.)
Klepinin: Do you know this Jew? (For this, Father Dimitri was knocked to the floor.)
"Your priest did himself in," Hoffman said afterward to Sophia Pilenko. "He insists that if he were to be freed, he would act exactly as before."
Mother Maria, Fr Dimitri, and several of their colleagues were sent to the Nazi concentration camps (Mother Maria to Ravensbruck, Fr Dimitri to Buchenwald) where, after great suffering, they perished. It is believed that Mother Maria's last act was to take the place of a Jew being sent to death, voluntarily dying in his place.
JAMES 5:10-20
10 My brethren, take the prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord, as an example of suffering and patience. 11 Indeed, we count them blessed who endure. You have heard of the perseverance of Job and seen the end intended by the Lord-that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful. 12 But above all, my brethren, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or with any other oath. But let your "Yes" be "Yes," and your "No," "No," lest you fall into judgment. 13 Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing psalms. 14 Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the church's elders, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. 15 The prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. 16 Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. 17 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months. 18 He prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit. 19 Brethren, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back, 20 let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and cover many sins.
LUKE 4:22-30
22 So all bore witness to Him and marveled at the gracious words which proceeded out of His mouth. And they said, "Is this not Joseph's son?" 23 He told them, "You will surely say this proverb to Me, 'Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard in Capernaum, do also here in Your country.' " 24 Then He said, "Assuredly, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own country. 25 But I tell you truly, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, and there was a great famine throughout all the land; 26 but to none of them was Elijah sent except to Zarephath, in the region of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. 27 And many lepers were in Israel during Elisha the prophet's time, and none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian. 28 So all those in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, 29 and rose up and thrust Him out of the city; and they led Him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built, that they might throw Him down over the cliff. 30 Then, passing through the midst of them, He went His way.
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Let's get to know one of the Most evilest Queens to ever rule in Ysrayl, Jezebel!
Top 7 things about Jezebel that's good to know.
Conniving, immoral, evil, unpure, haughty, conceited, narcissistic, wicked, unethical, etc... Imagine if these were the words used by everyone to describe your character. These words, plus more, were used then, and now, to describe the most dangerous widow of them all…. Jezebel!
#1 She killed alot of Ysraylites out of pure Hatred for the Father, Yah!
1 Kings 18:13 Haven't you heard, my Yah, what I did while Jezebel was killing the prophets of Yah ?
#2 She killed so many of Yahs prophets ( Ysraylites) during her reign as Queen, that ObadiYah had to hide them in caves to avoid slaughter.
1 Kings 18:13 13 Haven’t you heard, my Yah, what I did while Jezebel was killing the prophets of the Yah? I hid a hundred of Yahs prophets in two caves, fifty in each, and supplied them with food and water.
#3 Ahab, her husband, was labeled one of the worst kings to rule in Israel ( Just as evil as his wife) two birds of a feather!
1 Kings 16:30 Ahab son of Omri did more evil in the eyes of the Lord than any of those before him
1 Kings 21:25 There was none who sold himself to do what was evil in the sight of Yah like Ahab, whom Jezebel his wife incited.
#4 She did not believe in Yah. She chose to serve an evil, satanic deity named Baal. She also pushed her evil agenda on to her Husband Ahab who was an Ysraylite- and subsequently forced her beliefs onto Ysrayl; and killed any Ysraylite who did not bow down to worship Baal.
1 Kings 16:31 And as though it were not enough to follow the sinful example of Jeroboam, he married Jezebel, the daughter of King Ethbaal of the Sidonians, and he began to bow down in worship of Baal
#5. Her Name is the symbol for evil women. The name Jezebel is synonymous with women of deceit. Most of us have heard the phrase "She's a Jezebel" / "Don't be a Jezebel" Or, "She has a Jezebel spirit" She is the orchestrator of all those terms.
#6 She forged her husbands signature to take over an Ysraylites land. Ysraylites were not allowed to sale to anyone outside of the Ysraylite belief, so she connived and deceived to get his land.
Numbers 36:7 7 So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe: for every one of the children of Israel shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
1 Kings 21:8-& 15 V.8 8 So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name, placed his seal on them, and sent them to the elders and nobles who lived in Naboth’s city with him
V.15 As soon as Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned to death, she said to Ahab, “Get up and take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite that he refused to sell you. He is no longer alive, but dead.” 16 When Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, he got up and went down to take possession of Naboth’s vineyard.
#7 She was thrown out of a window to her death and fed to dogs.
2 Kings 9:30-37 30 When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it. And she painted her eyes and adorned her head and looked out of the window. 31 And as Jehu entered the gate, she said, “Is it peace, you Zimri, murderer of your master?” 32 And he lifted up his face to the window and said, “Who is on my side? Who?” Two or three eunuchs looked out at him. 33 He said, “Throw her down.” So they threw her down. And some of her blood spattered on the wall and on the horses, and they trampled on her. 34 Then he went in and ate and drank. And he said, “See now to this cursed woman and bury her, for she is a king's daughter.” 35 But when they went to bury her, they found no more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands. 36 When they came back and told him, he said, “This is the word of the Lord, which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite: ‘In the territory of Jezreel the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel, 37 and the corpse of Jezebel shall be as dung on the face of the field in the territory of Jezreel, so that no one can say, This is Jezebel.’”
Thanks for reading! Yah bless and Shalom!
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Israel Rebels Against Rehoboam
12 Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king.
2 When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard this (he was still in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon), he returned from Egypt.
3 So they sent for Jeroboam, and he and the whole assembly of Israel went to Rehoboam and said to him:
4 “Your father put a heavy yoke on us, but now lighten the harsh labor and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”
5 Rehoboam answered, “Go away for three days and then come back to me.” So the people went away.
6 Then King Rehoboam consulted the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How would you advise me to answer these people?” he asked.
7 They replied, “If today you will be a servant to these people and serve them and give them a favorable answer, they will always be your servants.”
8 But Rehoboam rejected the advice the elders gave him and consulted the young men who had grown up with him and were serving him.
9 He asked them, “What is your advice? How should we answer these people who say to me, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us’?”
10 The young men who had grown up with him replied, “These people have said to you, ‘Your father put a heavy yoke on us, but make our yoke lighter.’ Now tell them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist.
11 My father laid on you a heavy yoke; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions.’”
12 Three days later Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, as the king had said, “Come back to me in three days.”
13 The king answered the people harshly. Rejecting the advice given him by the elders,
14 he followed the advice of the young men and said, “My father made your yoke heavy; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions.”
15 So the king did not listen to the people, for this turn of events was from the Lord, to fulfill the word the Lord had spoken to Jeroboam son of Nebat through Ahijah the Shilonite.
16 When all Israel saw that the king refused to listen to them, they answered the king:
“What share do we have in David,
what part in Jesse’s son?
To your tents, Israel!
Look after your own house, David!” So the Israelites went home.
17 But as for the Israelites who were living in the towns of Judah, Rehoboam still ruled over them.
18 King Rehoboam sent out Adoniram, who was in charge of forced labor, but all Israel stoned him to death. King Rehoboam, however, managed to get into his chariot and escape to Jerusalem.
19 So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day.
20 When all the Israelites heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. Only the tribe of Judah remained loyal to the house of David.
21 When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mustered all Judah and the tribe of Benjamin—a hundred and eighty thousand able young men—to go to war against Israel and to regain the kingdom for Rehoboam son of Solomon.
22 But this word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God:
23 “Say to Rehoboam son of Solomon king of Judah, to all Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people,
24 ‘This is what the Lord says: Do not go up to fight against your brothers, the Israelites. Go home, every one of you, for this is my doing.’” So they obeyed the word of the Lord and went home again, as the Lord had ordered.
1 Kings 12:1-24 (NIV)
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30th June >> Mass Readings (USA)
Thursday, Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time
or
The First Martyrs of the See of Rome.
Thursday, Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time
(Liturgical Colour: Green)
First Reading
Amos 7:10-17
Go, prophesy to my people Israel.
Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent word to Jeroboam, king of Israel: “Amos has conspired against you here within Israel; the country cannot endure all his words. For this is what Amos says:
Jeroboam shall die by the sword,
and Israel shall surely be exiled from its land.”
To Amos, Amaziah said: “Off with you, visionary, flee to the land of Judah! There earn your bread by prophesying, but never again prophesy in Bethel; for it is the king’s sanctuary and a royal temple.” Amos answered Amaziah, “I was no prophet, nor have I belonged to a company of prophets; I was a shepherd and a dresser of sycamores. The LORD took me from following the flock, and said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’ Now hear the word of the LORD!”
You say: prophesy not against Israel,
preach not against the house of Isaac.
Now thus says the LORD:
Your wife shall be made a harlot in the city,
and your sons and daughters shall fall by the sword;
Your land shall be divided by measuring line,
and you yourself shall die in an unclean land;
Israel shall be exiled far from its land.
The Word of the Lord
R/ Thanks be to God.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 19:8, 9, 10, 11
R/ The judgments of the Lord are true, and all of them are just.
The law of the LORD is perfect,
refreshing the soul;
The decree of the LORD is trustworthy,
giving wisdom to the simple.
R/ The judgments of the Lord are true, and all of them are just.
The precepts of the LORD are right,
rejoicing the heart;
The command of the LORD is clear,
enlightening the eye.
R/ The judgments of the Lord are true, and all of them are just.
The fear of the LORD is pure,
enduring forever;
The ordinances of the LORD are true,
all of them just.
R/ The judgments of the Lord are true, and all of them are just.
They are more precious than gold,
than a heap of purest gold;
Sweeter also than syrup
or honey from the comb.
R/ The judgments of the Lord are true, and all of them are just.
Gospel Acclamation
2 Corinthians 5:19
Alleluia, alleluia.
God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ
and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel
Matthew 9:1-8
They glorified God who had given such authority to men.
After entering a boat, Jesus made the crossing, and came into his own town. And there people brought to him a paralytic lying on a stretcher. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Courage, child, your sins are forgiven.” At that, some of the scribes said to themselves, “This man is blaspheming.” Jesus knew what they were thinking, and said, “Why do you harbor evil thoughts? Which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise and walk’? But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”– he then said to the paralytic, “Rise, pick up your stretcher, and go home.” He rose and went home. When the crowds saw this they were struck with awe and glorified God who had given such authority to men.
The Gospel of the Lord
R/ Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
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The First Martyrs of the See of Rome
(Liturgical Colour: Red)
(Readings for the memorial)
(There is a choice today between the readings for the ferial day (Thursday) and those for the memorial. The ferial readings are recommended unless pastoral reasons suggest otherwise)
First Reading
Romans 8:31b-39
Neither death nor life will be able to separate us from the love of Christ.
Brothers and sisters: If God is for us, who can be against us? He did not spare his own Son but handed him over for us all, how will he not also give us everything else along with him? Who will bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who acquits us. Who will condemn? It is Christ Jesus who died, rather, was raised, who also is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us. What will separate us from the love of Christ? Will anguish, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or the sword? As it is written:
For your sake we are being slain all the day;
we are looked upon as sheep to be slaughtered.
No, in all these things we conquer overwhelmingly through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor present things, nor future things, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
The Word of the Lord
R/ Thanks be to God.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 124:2-3, 4-5, 7b-8
R/ Our soul has been rescued like a bird from the fowler’s snare.
Had not the LORD been with us–
when men rose up against us,
then would they have swallowed us alive
When their fury was inflamed against us.
R/ Our soul has been rescued like a bird from the fowler’s snare.
Then would the waters have overwhelmed us;
The torrent would have swept over us;
over us then would have swept
the raging waters.
R/ Our soul has been rescued like a bird from the fowler’s snare.
Broken was the snare,
and we were freed.
Our help is in the name of the LORD,
who made heaven and earth.
R/ Our soul has been rescued like a bird from the fowler’s snare.
Gospel Acclamation
Matthew 5:10
Alleluia, alleluia.
Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness,
for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven.
Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel
Matthew 24:4-13
You will be hated by all nations because of my name.
Jesus said to his disciples: “See that no one deceives you. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will deceive many. You will hear of wars and reports of wars; see that you are not alarmed, for these things must happen, but it will not yet be the end. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be famines and earthquakes from place to place. All these are the beginning of the labor pains. Then they will hand you over to persecution, and they will kill you. You will be hated by all nations because of my name. And then many will be led into sin; they will betray and hate one another. Many false prophets will arise and deceive many; and because of the increase of evildoing, the love of many will grow cold. But the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.”
The Gospel of the Lord
R/ Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
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Judgment on the House of Jeroboam
1At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam became sick. 2And Jeroboam said to his wife, “Please arise, and disguise yourself, that they may not recognize you as the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh. Indeed, Ahijah the prophet is there, who told me that I would be king over this people. 3Also take [a]with you ten loaves, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him; he will tell you what will become of the child.” 4And Jeroboam’s wife did so; she arose and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were [b]glazed by reason of his age.
5Now the Lord had said to Ahijah, “Here is the wife of Jeroboam, coming to ask you something about her son, for he is sick. Thus and thus you shall say to her; for it will be, when she comes in, that she will pretend to be another woman.”
6And so it was, when Ahijah heard the sound of her footsteps as she came through the door, he said, “Come in, wife of Jeroboam. Why do you pretend to be another person? For I have been sent to you with bad news. 7Go, tell Jeroboam, ‘Thus says the Lord God of Israel: “Because I exalted you from among the people, and made you ruler over My people Israel, 8and tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it to you; and yet you have not been as My servant David, who kept My commandments and who followed Me with all his heart, to do only what was right in My eyes; 9but you have done more evil than all who were before you, for you have gone and made for yourself other gods and molded images to provoke Me to anger, and have cast Me behind your back— 10therefore behold! I will bring disaster on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam every male in Israel, bond and free; I will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as one takes away refuse until it is all gone. 11The dogs shall eat whoever belongs to Jeroboam and dies in the city, and the birds of the air shall eat whoever dies in the field; for the Lord has spoken!” ’ 12Arise therefore, go to your own house. When your feet enter the city, the child shall die. 13And all Israel shall mourn for him and bury him, for he is the only one of Jeroboam who shall [c]come to the grave, because in him there is found something good toward the Lord God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.
14“Moreover the Lord will raise up for Himself a king over Israel who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam; [d]this is the day. What? Even now! 15For the Lord will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land which He gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond [e]the River, because they have made their [f]wooden images, provoking the Lord to anger. 16And He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who sinned and who made Israel sin.”
17Then Jeroboam’s wife arose and departed, and came to Tirzah. When she came to the threshold of the house, the child died. 18And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the Lord which He spoke through His servant Ahijah the prophet.
Death of Jeroboam
19Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he made war and how he reigned, indeed they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. 20The period that Jeroboam reigned was twenty-two years. So he rested with his fathers. Then Nadab his son reigned in his place.
Rehoboam Reigns in Judah
21And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king. He reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put His name there. His mother’s name was Naamah, an Ammonitess. 22Now Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they provoked Him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, more than all that their fathers had done. 23For they also built for themselves high[g] places, sacred pillars, and wooden images on every high hill and under every green tree. 24And there were also [h]perverted persons in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel.
25It happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem. 26And he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king’s house; he took away everything. He also took away all the gold shields which Solomon had made. 27Then King Rehoboam made bronze shields in their place, and [i]committed them to the hands of the captains of the [j]guard, who guarded the doorway of the king’s house. 28And whenever the king entered the house of the Lord, the guards carried them, then brought them back into the guardroom.
29Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 30And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days. 31So Rehoboam [k]rested with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the City of David. His mother’s name was Naamah, an Ammonitess. Then Abijam[l] his son reigned in his place.
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2 'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
and grace my fears relieved;
how precious did that grace appear
the hour I first believed!
3 The Lord has promised good to me,
his word my hope secures;
he will my shield and portion be
as long as life endures.
The Message of the Man of God
1And behold, a man of God went from Judah to Bethel [a]by the word of the Lord, and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense. 2Then he cried out against the altar [b]by the word of the Lord, and said, “O altar, altar! Thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, a child, Josiah by name, shall be born to the house of David; and on you he shall sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and men’s bones shall be burned on you.’ ” 3And he gave a sign the same day, saying, “This is the sign which the Lord has spoken: Surely the altar shall split apart, and the ashes on it shall be poured out.”
4So it came to pass when King Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, who cried out against the altar in Bethel, that he stretched out his hand from the altar, saying, “Arrest him!” Then his hand, which he stretched out toward him, withered, so that he could not pull it back to himself. 5The altar also was split apart, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the Lord. 6Then the king answered and said to the man of God, “Please entreat the favor of the Lord your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored to me.”
So the man of God entreated the Lord, and the king’s hand was restored to him, and became as before. 7Then the king said to the man of God, “Come home with me and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward.”
8But the man of God said to the king, “If you were to give me half your house, I would not go in with you; nor would I eat bread nor drink water in this place. 9For so it was commanded me by the word of the Lord, saying, ‘You shall not eat bread, nor drink water, nor return by the same way you came.’ ” 10So he went another way and did not return by the way he came to Bethel.
Death of the Man of God
11Now an old prophet dwelt in Bethel, and his [c]sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel; they also told their father the words which he had spoken to the king. 12And their father said to them, “Which way did he go?” For his sons [d]had seen which way the man of God went who came from Judah. 13Then he said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” So they saddled the donkey for him; and he rode on it, 14and went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak. Then he said to him, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?”
And he said, “I am.”
15Then he said to him, “Come home with me and eat bread.”
16And he said, “I cannot return with you nor go in with you; neither can I eat bread nor drink water with you in this place. 17For [e]I have been told by the word of the Lord, ‘You shall not eat bread nor drink water there, nor return by going the way you came.’ ”
18He said to him, “I too am a prophet as you are, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the Lord, saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house, that he may eat bread and drink water.’ ” (He was lying to him.)
19So he went back with him, and ate bread in his house, and drank water.
20Now it happened, as they sat at the table, that the word of the Lord came to the prophet who had brought him back; 21and he cried out to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, “Thus says the Lord: ‘Because you have disobeyed the word of the Lord, and have not kept the commandment which the Lord your God commanded you, 22but you came back, ate bread, and drank water in the place of which the Lord said to you, “Eat no bread and drink no water,” your corpse shall not come to the tomb of your fathers.’ ”
23So it was, after he had eaten bread and after he had drunk, that he saddled the donkey for him, the prophet whom he had brought back. 24When he was gone, a lion met him on the road and killed him. And his corpse was thrown on the road, and the donkey stood by it. The lion also stood by the corpse. 25And there, men passed by and saw the corpse thrown on the road, and the lion standing by the corpse. Then they went and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt.
26Now when the prophet who had brought him back from the way heard it, he said, “It is the man of God who was disobedient to the word of the Lord. Therefore the Lord has delivered him to the lion, which has torn him and killed him, according to the word of the Lord which He spoke to him.” 27And he spoke to his sons, saying, “Saddle the donkey for me.” So they saddled it. 28Then he went and found his corpse thrown on the road, and the donkey and the lion standing by the corpse. The lion had not eaten the corpse nor torn the donkey. 29And the prophet took up the corpse of the man of God, laid it on the donkey, and brought it back. So the old prophet came to the city to mourn, and to bury him. 30Then he laid the corpse in his own tomb; and they mourned over him, saying, “Alas, my brother!” 31So it was, after he had buried him, that he spoke to his sons, saying, “When I am dead, then bury me in the tomb where the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones. 32For the [f]saying which he cried out by the word of the Lord against the altar in Bethel, and against all the [g]shrines on the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, will surely come to pass.”
33After this event Jeroboam did not turn from his evil way, but again he made priests from every class of people for the high places; whoever wished, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places. 34And this thing was the sin of the house of Jeroboam, so as to exterminate and destroy it from the face of the earth.
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The Sacred Scriptures with their stories constantly teach one principle, and that is the principle of the two ways for man, one that leads man to happiness and blessedness, and another path that leads man to his ruin and unhappiness. As the Psalm 1, the Psalm of the Two Ways explains: "For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked leads to destruction" Psalm 1:6.
And there is a story in the Second Book of Chronicles that confirms this teaching; with the death of King Solomon, his son and successor Rehoboam failed to maintain the unity of the Kingdom, which caused the division between the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah. In this way, only the tribes of Judah and Benjamin remained with Rehoboam, the others, however, crowned Jeroboam king of Israel.
But as a consequence of this, Jeroboam imposed idolatry in Israel, creating two golden calves as gods. In this way, the children of Israel had to choose between two paths, the idolatry towards false gods or the worship of the only God who brought them out of Egypt.
Foolishness or the fear of God became opposite paths that no one could avoid to choose; as a result of this sin of Jeroboam, the existence of the Kingdom of Israel was very brief and only the tribe of Judah could survive, and thus the teaching of Psalm 1 was fulfilled.
In this way, the Second Book of Chronicles in the Bible, tells how this serious religious schism that divided Israel began:
"The Levites even abandoned their pasturelands and property and came to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them as priests of the Lord when he appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat and calf idols he had made.
Those from every tribe of Israel who set their hearts on seeking the LORD, the God of Israel, followed the Levites to Jerusalem to offer sacrifices to the LORD, the God of their ancestors. They strengthened the kingdom of Judah and supported Rehoboam son of Solomon three years, following the ways of David and Solomon during this time" 2 Chronicles 11:14-17.
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"Mister Lightning Bolt." Introduction to the Shoftim, the Book of Judges.
The earliest complete surviving copy of the Book of Judges in Hebrew is in the Aleppo Codex (10th century CE). Its subject matter contends with the event following Joshua's conquest of Canaan.
The basic source for Judges was a collection of loosely connected stories about tribal heroes who saved the people in battle.[32] This original "book of saviours" made up of the stories of Ehud, Jael and parts of Gideon, had already been enlarged and transformed into "wars of Yahweh" before being given the final Deuteronomistic revision.[33] In the 20th century, the first part of the prologue (chapters 1:1–2:5) and the two parts of the epilogue (17–21) were commonly seen as miscellaneous collections of fragments tacked onto the main text, and the second part of the prologue (2:6–3:6) as an introduction composed expressly for the book.[34]
More recently, this view has been challenged, and there is an increasing willingness to see Judges as the work of a single individual, working by carefully selecting, reworking and positioning the source material to introduce and conclude his themes.[34]
Archaeologist Israel Finkelstein proposed that the author(s) of the "book of saviours" collected these folk tales in the time of King Jeroboam II to argue that the king's Nimshide origins, which appear to originate in the eastern Jezreel Valley, were part of the "core" territory of Israel.[35]
Recall real history does not contain any mention of Slavery in Egypt, this is a myth. Rameses II of Egypt lived and died around 1100 BCE. He never spent much time there and died in battle in Syria, his long time enemy.
King David was born in 900 BCE, Solomon died not long after. The world Israel is quoted for the first time around 500 BCE, the Book of Genesis rounded off around 250 BCE, and the first Pesach was observed in 5 BCE.
The above information makes the Shoftim one of the latest works in the Tanakh, "the perpetual river of God's attributes", which is the sum total for the Jewish Spiritual Library.
Much about the nature and knowledge of the Jew was steadily lost over the many years of persecutions, assassinations, pogroms, holocausts, purges, and the rest is suppressed by numchuks like the Evangelicals, Mormons, and Republicans who think they are so smart they can get away with it.
This project is the latest installment within one that is greater to return the essence of Judaism back to the world and overwrite the former, whom I view as obsolete, unnecessary, irrelevant, repugnant, time to go, get out, don't come back. This is the sentiment found in the opening of the Judges, which states Jerusalem was put under siege.
A siege on Jerusalem "the teaching place" means the restart button is being pushed, and all delusion is being purged from the Holy City. We need to do the same. All around the world people think they need to be giant bloodsucking mosquitos to go to heaven, that Allah hates everyone and everything that doesn't carry a rifle, wear a mask, a bathrobe and a coney hat and perform the real live versions of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre on the people for entertainment fun.
And here begins the Midrash.
Israel Fights the Remaining Canaanites
In ancient times, then as now, the Perizzites and Canaanites "wildlings and zealots" rise up. The Israelites pray to the Lord for His help.
1 After the death of Joshua, the Israelites asked the Lord, “Who of us is to go up first to fight against the Canaanites?”
2 The Lord answered, “Judah shall go up; I have given the land into their hands.”
3 The men of Judah then said to the Simeonites their fellow Israelites, “Come up with us into the territory allotted to us, to fight against the Canaanites. We in turn will go with you into yours.” So the Simeonites went with them.
4 When Judah attacked, the Lord gave the Canaanites and Perizzites into their hands, and they struck down ten thousand men at Bezek "flash of lightning". 5 It was there that they found Adoni-Bezek "Mister Lightning Bolt" and fought against him, putting to rout the Canaanites and Perizzites.
6 Adoni-Bezek fled, but they chased him and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and big toes.7 Then Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have picked up scraps under my table. Now God has paid me back for what I did to them.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
8 The men of Judah attacked Jerusalem also and took it. They put the city to the sword and set it on fire.
Joshua means "savior", Judah means "God's Glory", and a Simeonite is someone about which one hears good things. A Simeon has a good reputation. The Torah says Simeon Horeb, "good men glow bronze with heat."
After Joshua dies, Perizzites and Canaanites take over the allotted territory. The allotted territory is personal freedom. We are told by the God of Israel in the Torah and all of the Tanakh we are to be free. We are to be as free as the law will allow, even free of the Religion. This is what Shabbat is for, to insist we take time to look, feel, think, and live as freely as possible. This is anathema to how "wild people" who do whatever they want however they want, and "zealots" who do not want anyone to do anything they do not agree with.
A real Jew is niether. This sounds uncomplicated, but don't worry it is actually very very complicated. The above states the Israelites found Mister Lightning Bolt, AKA a Jew in Jerusalem with his fingers and toes intact and out revenge for his sins against Israel, they cut them off.
Fingers and toes are the Ten Decrees and Ten Plagues of Egypt and each member of the Clans of Israel called the Seventy feature matrixed observances of each one. I.e, the consequences of a Reuben, a leader who violates the Commandments is different than the way a Benjamin, "a son of Intelligence" does it.
Violations of the Decrees turn a leader into a crook, and make a smart man look like a dumbass. All of this needs to be worked out in Jerusalem so the proper ways to observe the Torah are established and salvation can be given back to the people of the Promised Land once again.
The Values in Gematria for the above verses follow.
v. 1: After the death of Joshua. The Value in Gematria is 5413, הדאג, "the worry."
v. 2: The Lord answered. The Value in Gematria is 4867, דחוז, "the Report."
v. 3: The Men of Judah went into the Alotted Territory. The Value in Gematria is 13465, יגדוה yagdeva, "will die."
v. 4-5: When Judah attacked. The Value in Gematria is 12287, יבבחז, "babbling",
v. 6-7: Mister Lightning Bolt fled. They chased him. The Value in Gematria is 9749, טזדט , tazdat, "identification, to grasp the data."
v. 8: They put the City to the Sword. The Value in Gematria is 6261, ובוא, "arrive, and enter."
Mashiach, global ethical responsibility. the fondest wish of the Jew and the people of Israel must periodically be redefined and reestablished. The process begins with a Report called the Shema, which is an admission by the Jew, "I wish to be free, just as God promised."
The opening paragraphs of the Shoftim state such freedom is at risk when pairs of opposites like "wild things" and "zealots" compete for controlling interests in society such as they are now. Both are the result of the actions of bullshit babblers like the Republicans those freaks, the Mormons and the towel heads who are leading Hezbollah and Hamas.
Esteban, they are going to ruin my party!
The worse thing that can happen now is for the Report to die and this it cannot do. All we have to do is grasp the data identify with Mister Lightning Bolt, our main Jewish Character and finally enter into the world God has laid before us. For starters, this means the Republican Party which is in league with Hezbollah and Hamas has to be closed down.
The Wars of the Vision shall continue.
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2 Kings 23: 15-18. "The Tomb."
Continuing our deconstruction of the errors made by the Kings of Israel and Judah. We know now the signs of the age include repatriation of the Israeliates in their own territory and an end to all of the shrines, Asherah Poles and altars that are keeping them separate from their point of origin and their ongoing destiny as the protectors of the human race.
The passage that follows revisits the high place or attitude called Jeroboam, "may the people contend" that presupposes people in positions of power get to have whatever they want, however and whenever they want it.
Every sovereign territory on the planet has a constitution that defines the responsibilities and privileges of its heads of state. Deviation and violations are not allowed. The government of the United States, for example is not sovereign at this time because President Biden has not prosecuted a series of violations perpetrated by the Trump Administration starting with election fraud in 2016 and pretty much everything else Trump did while he was in office. Many, many unconstitutional, state, and local laws were violated and the real issue- more than a few international laws were violated as well.
Our international partners need to be able to expect the principals of sound government, the very same that confer sovereignty are followed in order to ensure global social and ecomomic order are maintained. When these are not adhered to, who knows what will happen next? No one wants to hazard a guess as to what kind of atrocities are in our future, like the invasion of Ukraine, or the Mormon infiltration of Hamas because a tyrant went unchecked.
Thus, when a tryrant like Donald Trump or Valdimir Putin surfaces, he and his cohorts must immediately be put to death and free elections must be held in order to protect the world from abuses of power.
Joe Biden has also not arrested the Supreme Court Justices that overturned RVW. The rights of women are protected by international law in the UN Declaration of Human Rights:
Paragraph 7.3 [Reproductive rights] includes [couples' and individuals'] right to make decisions concerning reproduction free of discrimination, coercion and violence, as expressed in human rights documents.
This violation of international statutes protecting reproductive rights is a sign of a tyranny, and this can prevent a nation from enjoying sovereign status. Many states are trying to revoke LGBTQ rights and this is also a risk to national sovereignty under the terms of the UN Charter and Declaration.
Sovereigns and presidents are not immune from prosecution for Crimes Against Hunamity or War Crimes. The belief they are protected and should be allowed to continue to hold office and commit such crimes is called a high place, and it is not so high it is immune from common sense or the law.
The opposite of a high place is a low place, a sacred place called a tomb. Read why this is the case below:
15 Even the altar at Bethel, the high place made by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin—even that altar and high place he demolished. He burned the high place and ground it to powder, and burned the Asherah pole also.
16 Then Josiah looked around, and when he saw the tombs that were there on the hillside, he had the bones removed from them and burned on the altar to defile it, in accordance with the word of the Lord proclaimed by the man of God who foretold these things.
17 The king asked, “What is that tombstone I see?”
The people of the city said, “It marks the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and pronounced against the altar of Bethel the very things you have done to it.”
18 “Leave it alone,” he said. “Don’t let anyone disturb his bones.” So they spared his bones and those of the prophet who had come from Samaria.
Jeroboam son of Nebat desired everything he laid his eyes on. He believed the increase in the wealth of the people meant more for him. Sovereigns are supposed to behave in the opposite manner and increase the wealth of the nation for the sake of the national interest. The nation is the high place, the Sovereign supports it from underneath.
This belief turns a jurisdiction, like the entire planet into what is called Bethel, "The House of God":
"The noun בית (bayit) means house. It sometimes merely denotes a domestic building, but mostly it denotes the realm of authority of the house-father, or אב (ab).
This ab is commonly the living alpha male of a household, but may very well be a founding ancestor (as in the familiar term the "house of Israel"). The אב (ab) may also be a deity, in which case the בית (bayit) is that which we know as a temple.
In the larger economy, a house interacts with other houses. These interactions are governed by the אב (ab), or "father" and executed by the בנים (benim), or "sons": those people living in the house, irrespective of any biological relation with the אב (ab). The "sons" combined add up to אם ('em), which means both "mother" and "tribe"."
Within the Melachim, the Torah and the Tanakh itself we see the problems associated with sovereignty aren't within the law, just the high places, or unfounded or illegal positions taken against it.
The Values in Gematria for the above verses explain:
v. 15: Ground to powder....the Value in Gematria is 8924, חטבד, hattab, "the well." A well is an oath, the commitment to become a productive, self-sufficient, enlightened human being. What happened to this? Human nature must first be ground down then raised up again as the Book of Genesis states.
"G‑d then formed man out of dust of the ground, and He blew into his nostrils a soul of life, and man became a living being." (Gen. 2:7)
"G‑d then formed": We do not find any mention of "creation" in this verse, for both the body and the soul were formed of pre-existing matter: the body from earth, and the soul from the essence of G‑d. (Sefer HaMa'amarim 5748, p. 14) Adam (and Eve) were created in the form of mature, twenty-year old adults. (Bereishit Rabbah 14:7)
So owning the body of a man is not enough.
v. 16: Burned the bones, defiled the altar. The Value in Gematria is 10961, אאֶפֶסטואֶפֶס, epistophias, "the snake's office."
Bones on the altar means we must willingly view the evidence against us. If we cannot admit we succumbed the snake and decided to use each other's bodies in order to create slag instead of choosing to live here appropriately (as our laws insist), we have no hope for redemption.
v. 17: The Tombstone of the Man From Judah= Jacob when he fought the angel and then married Leah and gave birth to the 12 Tribes. The Tribal Leaders are the keys to the gate of re-entry to Eden.
The Value in Gematria is 9775, טזזה, tezza, "the thesis". Judaism's central thesis is the redemption of mankind back to the edenic state of the garden.
v. 18: The prophet from Samaria is Elisha, "the spirit of the government."
"The verb ישע (yasha') means to be unrestricted and thus to be free and thus to be saved (from restriction, from oppression and thus from ultimate demise).
A doer of this verb is a savior. Nouns ישועה (yeshua), ישע (yesha') and תשועה (teshua) mean salvation. Adjective שוע (shoa') means (financially) independent, freed in an economic sense."
The Value in Gematria is 6161, ואוא, and oh, "the hearth." The Hebrew heart and hearth are the cause of all that is worthwhile in civilized life.
The high places and Asherah poles are clear distortions of what was intended by God, a long time ago, to create a way of life we are actively disregarding and the price for this will also be very high.
Our sages and religious personalities from the past examined human nature and left scriptures or tombs behind to help us understand the plight of humanity at any given time and what caused it to suffer. We pay them no heed. We say we know we should, that we want to, but we don't. Alas, this might mean we are at last a lost cause.
If we live long enough mankind will read the contents of this forum and realize we made huge mistakes allowing Donald Trump's inauguration to take place, the same thing for the invasion of Ukraine, and also the existence of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, all horrible horrible mistakes, contradicted by the laws of God and also of man.
If we want to make this better before it is way too late, and perhaps it already is, millions are dead, we must look down not up. And America needs to be the first to do it. Sovereignty and self-government are a privilege associated with the upkeep of certain standards.
The world cannot abide the presence of a nuclear power that cannot manage its affairs in the utmost or risk the chance religious extemists mjght topple its leadership and project force against its neighbors or international partners, including the people of Israel their favorite target. We won't be sorry if we reflect upon these things and resort to the laws we have written in order to fix our mistakes.
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Amaziah Begins His Rule in Judah
1 Amaziah, son of Joash, became king of Judah in the second year of the reign of Jehoash, son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel. 2 He was twenty-five when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for twenty-nine years. His mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem. 3 He did what was right in the Lord's sight, but not in the same way as his forefather David had. He did everything just as his father Joash had done. 4 But the high places were not removed. The people still were sacrificing and presenting burnt offerings in those places.
5 Once he was secure on the throne he executed the officials who had murdered his father the king. 6 But he did not execute the murderers' children, following the Lord's command in the law of Moses that “Fathers must not be put to death for their children's sins, and children must not be put to death for their father's sins. Everyone is to die for their own sin.”
7 Amaziah killed ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt. He attacked and captured Sela and renamed it Joktheel, which is what it is called to this very day. 8 Amaziah sent messengers to the king of Israel, Jehoash, son of Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, telling him, ���Let's fight, face to face!”
9 Jehoash, king of Israel, replied to Amaziah, king of Judah: “In Lebanon a thistle sent a message to a cedar, saying, ‘Give your daughter as a wife to my son.’ But a wild animal of Lebanon came by and trampled down the thistle. 10 You may indeed have defeated Edom. Now you've become arrogant. Stay home and enjoy your victory! Why provoke trouble that will bring you down, and Judah with you?”
11 But Amaziah refused to listen, so Jehoash, king of Israel, came to attack him. He and Amaziah, king of Judah, met face to face at Beth Shemesh in Judah. 12 The army of Judah was defeated by Israel, and ran away home. 13 Jehoash, king of Israel, captured Amaziah, king of Judah, the son of Joash, son of Ahaziah, at Beth Shemesh. Then Jehoash attacked Jerusalem and knocked down the city wall from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate, about four hundred cubits in length. 14 He removed all the gold and silver, and all the items found in the Lord's Temple and in the treasuries of the royal palace, and also some hostages. Then he went back to Samaria.
15 The rest of what happened in Jehoash's reign, all he did, and his great achievements and his war with Amaziah, king of Judah, are recorded in the Book of Chronicles of the Kings of Israel. 16 Jehoash died and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. His son Jeroboam succeeded him as king.
17 Amaziah, son of Joash, king of Judah, lived for fifteen more years after the death of Joash, son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel. 18 The rest of the events that happened in Amaziah's reign are recorded in the Book of Chronicles of the Kings of Judah.
19 A conspiracy against Amaziah took place in Jerusalem, and he ran away to Lachish. But men were sent after him and they murdered him there. 20 They brought him back on horses and buried him in Jerusalem with his forefathers in the City of David. 21 Then all the people of Judah made Amaziah's son Azariah king to replace his father. Azariah was sixteen years old. 22 Azariah recaptured Elath for Judah and rebuilt it after his father's death.
23 Jeroboam, son of Jehoash, became king of Israel in the fifteenth year of the reign of Amaziah, son of Joash, king of Judah. He reigned in Samaria for forty-one years. 24 He did what was evil in the Lord's sight and did not end all the sins that Jeroboam, son of Nebat, had made Israel commit. 25 He restored the border of Israel to where it had been, from Lebo-hamath as far as the Sea of the Arabah, as the Lord, the God of Israel, had said through his servant Jonah, son of Amittai, the prophet, who came from Gath-hepher.
26 The Lord had seen how badly the Israelites were suffering, both slave and free. No one was there to help Israel. 27 However, since the Lord had said that he would not wipe out Israel, he saved them through Jeroboam, son of Jehoash. 28 The rest of what happened in Jeroboam's reign, all he did, his great achievements and the battles he fought, and how he recovered for Israel both Damascus and Hamath, are recorded in the Book of Chronicles of the Kings of Israel. 29 Jeroboam died and was buried with the kings of Israel. His son Zechariah succeeded him as king.
— 2 Kings 14 | Free Bible Version (FBV)
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Cross References: Exodus 3:2; Deuteronomy 8:14; Deuteronomy 24:16; Deuteronomy 29:20; Deuteronomy 32:36; Joshua 10:31; Joshua 15:10; Joshua 15:38; 1 Samuel 4:10; 2 Samuel 2:14; 1 Kings 9:26; 2 Kings 12:3; 2 Kings 12:18; 2 Kings 12:20-21; 2 Kings 13:12-13; 2 Kings 15:1; 2 Kings 15:19; 2 Chronicles 25:1; 1 Chronicles 5:17; 2 Chronicles 8:3; 2 Chronicles 25:23; 2 Chronicles 23:25; Hosea 1:1; Amos 1:1; Amos 7:10; Matthew 12:39-40
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A sign of the sun & moon
Today’s reading of the Scriptures from the New Testament is the 12th chapter of the book of Revelation:
As I looked, a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman came into view clothed in the radiance of the sun, standing with the moon under her feet, and she was crowned with a wreath of twelve stars on her head. She was painfully pregnant and was crying out in the agony of labor. Then a second sign appeared in heaven, ominous, foreboding: a great red dragon, with seven crowned heads and ten horns. The dragon’s tail brushed one-third of the stars from the sky and hurled them down to the earth. The dragon crouched in front of the laboring woman, waiting to devour her child the moment it was born.
She gave birth to a male child, who is destined to rule the nations with an iron scepter. Before the dragon could bite and devour her son, the child was whisked away and brought to God and His throne. The woman fled into the wilderness, where God had prepared a place of refuge and safety where she could find sustenance for 1,260 days.
A battle broke out in heaven. Michael, along with his heavenly messengers, clashed against the dragon. The dragon and his messengers returned the fight, but they did not prevail and were defeated. As a result, there was no place left for them in heaven. So the great dragon, that ancient serpent who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world, was cast down to the earth along with his messengers. Then I heard a great voice in heaven.
A Voice: Now the salvation and the power
and the kingdom of our God
and the authority of His Anointed One have come.
For the accuser of our brothers and sisters,
who relentlessly accuses them day and night before our God,
has been cast down and silenced.
By the blood of the Lamb
and the word of their witnesses,
they have become victorious over him,
For they did not hold on to their lives, even under threat of death.
Therefore, rejoice, all you heavens;
celebrate, all you who live in them.
But disaster will befall the earth and the sea,
for the devil has come down to your spheres,
And he is incredibly angry
because he knows his time is nearly over.
When the dragon realized he had been cast down to the earth, he pursued the mother of the male infant. In order to escape the serpent, she was given the two wings of the great eagle to fly deeper into the wilderness to her own special place where she would find sustenance for a time, and times, and half a time. Then from his mouth the serpent spewed water like a raging river that chased after the woman, trying to sweep her away in the flood. But the earth came to her rescue. It opened its gaping mouth and swallowed the river that spewed from the dragon’s mouth. As a result, the dragon was enraged at the woman and went away to make war on the rest of her children—those who keep the commandments of God and hold fast to the testimony of Jesus.
And [the dragon] stood waiting on the sand of the seashore.
The Book of Revelation, Chapter 12 (The Voice)
A note from The Voice translation:
The sign that appears in the vision is of a celestial woman who gives birth to a son. While it’s possible this could refer to Mary, the mother of Jesus, it is also possible this is a symbol of God’s chosen people. The faithful remnant of Israel is the womb that carried the Lord and delivered Him to the world. While the great red dragon does his best to destroy and devour Him, God has another plan. Since then, the dragon and his minions have done their best to harangue and persecute the woman’s children. But again he does not have the final word.
Today’s paired reading from the First Testament is the 1st chapter of the book of Hosea:
The words in this book are the words of the Eternal One, which were told to Hosea (Beeri’s son) when Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah were kings of Judah; and when Jeroboam (Joash’s son) was king of Israel.
This is the word the Eternal spoke through Hosea first.
Eternal One (to Hosea): Go and marry a woman who is a prostitute and have children who come from this unfaithfulness. This will represent how the land of Israel has abandoned Me and become a prostitute to other masters!
So Hosea married a woman named Gomer (Diblaim’s daughter). She became pregnant and gave birth to his son.
Eternal One: I want you to name this boy Jezreel because I’m just about to punish Jehu’s dynasty for all the blood Jehu shed at the city of Jezreel. I will bring an end to the monarchy in Israel. Here’s how I’m going to do it: I’ll destroy their army and break their bow when they fight the Assyrians in the valley of Jezreel.
Gomer became pregnant again, and this time she had a girl.
Eternal One: I want you to name her Shown No Mercy, because I’m not going to show any more mercy to the people of Israel. I won’t forgive them anymore. But I will have mercy on the people of Judah. Even though they could never win in battle with their own weapons—bows and swords, horses and cavalry—I’m going to save them personally.
After Gomer finished nursing Shown No Mercy, she became pregnant again and had another boy.
Eternal One: I want you to name him Not My People, because these people aren’t Mine anymore, and I am not their God.
But things won’t always be this way. Someday there’ll be so many people in Israel that they’ll be like the grains of sand at the seashore—too many to count! It shall turn out that in the very place where it was said to them, “You are not My people,” they will be called “Children of the living God.” The people of Judah and the people of Israel will return from exile and gather together as one nation again, and they’ll agree on only one leader for all of them. It will be a great day when they go up from the land and “Jezreel” is a reality.
The Book of Hosea, Chapter 1 (The Voice)
A note from The Voice translation:
This judgment is for the crime of slaughtering Ahab’s family at the city of Jezreel by Jehu when he made himself king, and the punisment includes Jehu’s great-grandson, King Jeroboam.
A link to my personal reading of the Scriptures for Wednesday, december 27 of 2023 with a paired chapter from each Testament (the First & the New) of the Bible along with Today’s Proverbs and Psalms
A post by John Parsons about the starting point:
This week we will finish reading the Book of Genesis (סֵפֶר בְּרֵאשִׁית) for the current Jewish year... This essential book begins with an account of the creation of the universe by the LORD and the creation of man in His image and likeness. Genesis not only explains the origin of life itself but also the origin of death that resulted from Adam's transgression, a condition of "spiritual death" that was passed on to Adam and Eve's descendants and that affects the very fabric of creation. The book then reveals the corruption of the first ten generations of humanity that eventually led to divine judgment by means of the worldwide flood (mabbul). From Noah's line, however, would come Abraham who was called by God to become the patriarch through whom the promised Deliverer would come. The remainder of the book focuses on the lives of the three great patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob), and ends with the story of Joseph, Jacob's firstborn son of Rachel, who eventually brought the entire family of Jacob to Egypt to escape famine. This of course set the stage for the great Exodus from Egypt under the leadership of Moses...
The book of Genesis ends with Joseph dying and being put into a coffin in Egypt (Gen. 50:26). Note that the word translated "coffin" is the Hebrew word aron (אֲרוֹן), a word used elsewhere in the Torah to refer exclusively to the Ark of the Covenant (the ark that Noah built and the ark that Moses was placed in are both called “teivah”). Throughout their desert wanderings, then, after the Sinai revelation, the Israelites carried two special arks - one holding the bones of Joseph and the other holding the tablets of the Ten Commandments.
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Genesis 1:1 reading:
https://hebrew4christians.com/Blessings/Blessing_Cards/gen1-1-jjp.mp3
Hebrew page:
https://hebrew4christians.com/Blessings/Blessing_Cards/gen1-1-lesson.pdf
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from yesterday’s email by Israel 365:
Why did Joseph adopt this approach with his brothers? What lesson was he trying to impart through this elaborate charade? Joseph wanted his brothers to confront their past misjudgments and understand that things aren’t always as they seem. They stood facing the viceroy of Egypt, the very man who saved the world from famine, who was exhibiting seemingly irrational behavior. Similarly, they had misinterpreted their younger brother and his dreams, judged him unworthy, and sold him into slavery. Like the guests at the poor groom’s wedding, they were quick to assume, failing to look beyond the surface to discern the truth about their brother.
Today’s message (Days of Praise) from the Institute for Creation Research
December 27, 2023
Lift Up Your Eyes
“Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.” (Isaiah 40:26)
Our text makes three majestic statements about the cosmos, each reflecting true scientific insight as well as the work of each person of the divine Trinity. The omnipresent Father has “brought out” an infinite “host” of organized systems in the cosmos—galaxies, stars, planets, animals, and people. All are capable of description mathematically, “by number,” and thus all bear witness to their great Designer. Chance processes never generate organization or complexity, so special creation by God is the only legitimate explanation for the “numbered” host of heaven.
The Son is the omniscient Word of information, description, and meaning. Every system in the cosmos is not only numbered but named! That is, in the mind of its Creator, it has a function and has been coded to fulfill its purpose. The Second Law states that systems never code themselves but rather always tend to distort the information originally programmed into them. Only an omniscient Creator could thus implement the divine purpose for every created entity.
Finally, the Holy Spirit is the omnipotent Energizer who activates and empowers every system. The Second Law says that energy becomes less available as time goes on, so only the Creator could provide the energy to activate the designed, programmed cosmos in the beginning.
When we finally look up and really “behold who hath created these things,” we must see God the Creator—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. HMM
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The Reality of Prophetic Israel as a Re-Elected People
Israel is the fruitful vine of Hosea 10:1.
The vine is John 15:1, Jesus is the true vine.
Isaiah 5:7 says the vineyard is the house of Israel, so true Israel is a metaphor for the fruit of Jesus.
Isaiah 14:1 Choosing Israel again means building a new Eden
Text Isaiah 14:1 verse 2
The LORD will have compassion on Jacob, and will choose Israel again.
and will choose Israel again, and will set them in their own land: and he that is a stranger shall be joined to the house of Jacob.
shall be joined to them, and shall be united with them.
and the nations shall take them, and they shall return to their own land.
and the house of Israel shall obtain them out of the land of the LORD, and shall make them slaves, and shall take captive Zarephath, which formerly held them captive, and shall take away their titles.
over them.
Israel Historically
Israel is a republic in Palestine in southwestern Asia and is the only country on earth founded by Jews. Located on the Mediterranean Sea
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and surrounded by the Arab empires of Lebanon to the north, Syria to the east, and Egypt to the south, it is a small country with an area of 21.946 km2 and a population of only 5.1 million as of 1992.
However, its strong national spirit has never allowed it to win a war against its Arab neighbors. It is no exaggeration to say that the Bible is centered on the history of Israel. Israel is the new name of Jacob, the grandson of Abraham, who fought with an angel to break his hipbone when he was forced to cross the Nile River in search of his brother Esau.
The historical background of the Kingdom of Israel is that the Hebrew people, who followed Moses out of Egypt, became a people with a strong spirit through 40 years of wilderness life before entering the land of Canaan, and followed Moses' successor Joshua to settle in the land of Syrian Palestine (Canaan) and form a national group centered on the one God, Yahweh. These Israelite tribes formed a national grouping centered around their faith, and in the late 11th century BC, spurred on by the Philistine invasion, Saul, the son of a prominent Benjaminite (gdel) by Samuel the Shilohite, a religious leader and prophet, was anointed and consecrated as the first king of Israel (1004 BC).
Saul fought a bitter battle with David and sinned against God, losing the battle to the Philistines and committing suicide after the deaths of Saul's three sons. After that, the kingship continued to David and Solomon, and Solomon sinned, so in the time of Solomon's son Rehoboam, Jeroboam rebelled and established the kingdom of Israel centered on Samaria with ten tribes except the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, and Rehoboam, Solomon's son, established kingship over only one tribe, Judah, so it became the nation of Judah centered on Jerusalem.
The northern kingdom established by Jeroboam was economically and culturally richer than the southern kingdom, but religiously, it gradually intensified the planting of idols of Baal against God, and after 200 years and eight revolutions, it became the king of Assyria in 721 BC during the time of Hosea, the 19th and last king of Israel.
under Hoshea, the 19th king of Israel. This was in the 6th year of Hezekiah, the 12th king of Judah.
The southern kingdom of Judah, on the other hand, survived the death of the vice kingdom for another 130 years and changed kings a number of times. Internal affairs between two powers, Assyria and Akkad (Egypt). After exhausting all its diplomatic efforts, it was destroyed by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar in the 10th year of Zedekiah, the 19th king of Judah, around 58 BC, and all its officials and upper class were taken to Babylon.
After 70 years of captivity in Babylon, Judah was freed when Cyrus, king of Babylon, issued a decree allowing Israel to return to Jerusalem. Led by Zerubbabel, Ezra, Nehemiah, and other prophets, the Israelites returned from Babylon and began to build the temple again, and alth
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2 Chronicles 10. "Whips and Scorpions."
Israel Rebels Against Rehoboam
10 Rehoboam "Expansion" went to Shechem "the shoulder", for all Israel had gone there to make him king.
2 When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard this (he was in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon), he returned from Egypt.
="May the people contend with and respect the peace."
3 So they sent for Jeroboam, and he and all Israel went to Rehoboam and said to him: 4 “Your father put a heavy yoke on us, but now lighten the harsh labor and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”
5 Rehoboam answered, “Come back to me in three days.” So the people went away.
6 Then King Rehoboam consulted the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How would you advise me to answer these people?” he asked.
7 They replied, “If you will be kind to these people and please them and give them a favorable answer, they will always be your servants.”
8 But Rehoboam rejected the advice the elders gave him and consulted the young men who had grown up with him and were serving him. 9 He asked them, “What is your advice? How should we answer these people who say to me, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us’?”
10 The young men who had grown up with him replied, “The people have said to you, ‘Your father put a heavy yoke on us, but make our yoke lighter.’ Now tell them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist. 11 My father laid on you a heavy yoke; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions.’”
12 Three days later Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, as the king had said, “Come back to me in three days.” 13 The king answered them harshly. Rejecting the advice of the elders, 14 he followed the advice of the young men and said, “My father made your yoke heavy; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions.” 15 So the king did not listen to the people, for this turn of events was from God, to fulfill the word the Lord had spoken to Jeroboam son of Nebat through Ahijah the Shilonite.
16 When all Israel saw that the king refused to listen to them, they answered the king:
“What share do we have in David,
what part in Jesse’s son?
To your tents, Israel!
Look after your own house, David!”
So all the Israelites went home. 17 But as for the Israelites who were living in the towns of Judah, Rehoboam still ruled over them.
18 King Rehoboam sent out Adoniram,[a] who was in charge of forced labor, but the Israelites stoned him to death. King Rehoboam, however, managed to get into his chariot and escape to Jerusalem. 19 So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day.
Rehoboam gets a bad rap from history but he was given a difficult job- rehabituating a new generation of apeman to the ways of his father, Solomon, who chased Jeroboam "contend and respect" out of town because he would not contend or respect.
To teach respect for the law and its beneficiaries is to use the whip. A whip, a snake is said to have "hot venom" which is said to build enthusiasm for the Law which Solomon certainly accomplished.
To use the scorpion, cold venom is to force a Torah scholar to be critical and assertive for educational purposes, his “sting” does not stem from a flare of temper, which would cause him to lose his equilibrium. Instead, he acts out of a sense of balance and clear thinking. It is specifically the coldness that allows him to act in a correct manner.
Three Days later, the amount of time the Torah says it takes for the world to become dry of the need for bloodshed to solve its problems, the people refused to relent and continued to ask Rehoboam to relax the rules.
He said not. Things became tense and the beginning of the end of the Kingdom of Israel went underway.
Why does the Tanakh interrupt Solomon's love story with history to show a bleak confrontation between the People and the King of Israel?
As good as it gets, it can always get worse. It is the King and the Court's job to tell the world this is not acceptable and it is their duty to maintain the highest standards of Torah.
The fathers in the Court of Solomon did not do what they were supposed to do, leaving the king to fend for himself and the Israel's world devolved.
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Jeroboam Rebels Against Solomon
26 Also, Jeroboam son of Nebat rebelled against the king. He was one of Solomon’s officials, an Ephraimite from Zeredah, and his mother was a widow named Zeruah.
27 Here is the account of how he rebelled against the king: Solomon had built the terraces and had filled in the gap in the wall of the city of David his father.
28 Now Jeroboam was a man of standing, and when Solomon saw how well the young man did his work, he put him in charge of the whole labor force of the tribes of Joseph.
29 About that time Jeroboam was going out of Jerusalem, and Ahijah the prophet of Shiloh met him on the way, wearing a new cloak. The two of them were alone out in the country,
30 and Ahijah took hold of the new cloak he was wearing and tore it into twelve pieces.
31 Then he said to Jeroboam, “Take ten pieces for yourself, for this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘See, I am going to tear the kingdom out of Solomon’s hand and give you ten tribes.
32 But for the sake of my servant David and the city of Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, he will have one tribe.
33 I will do this because they have forsaken me and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Molek the god of the Ammonites, and have not walked in obedience to me, nor done what is right in my eyes, nor kept my decrees and laws as David, Solomon’s father, did.
34 “‘But I will not take the whole kingdom out of Solomon’s hand; I have made him ruler all the days of his life for the sake of David my servant, whom I chose and who obeyed my commands and decrees.
35 I will take the kingdom from his son’s hands and give you ten tribes.
36 I will give one tribe to his son so that David my servant may always have a lamp before me in Jerusalem, the city where I chose to put my Name.
37 However, as for you, I will take you, and you will rule over all that your heart desires; you will be king over Israel.
38 If you do whatever I command you and walk in obedience to me and do what is right in my eyes by obeying my decrees and commands, as David my servant did, I will be with you. I will build you a dynasty as enduring as the one I built for David and will give Israel to you.
39 I will humble David’s descendants because of this, but not forever.’”
40 Solomon tried to kill Jeroboam, but Jeroboam fled to Egypt, to Shishak the king, and stayed there until Solomon’s death.
1 Kings 11:26-40 (NIV)
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