{"id":62533,"date":"2019-09-05T15:58:50","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T12:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=62533"},"modified":"2023-04-04T09:33:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T06:33:28","slug":"constant-regnal-upheaval-in-the-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/constant-regnal-upheaval-in-the-north\/","title":{"rendered":"Constant Regnal Upheaval In The North"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[429],"acf":{"old_id":"62533","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":54356,"related_cahpter":"303","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Compared with relative stability in the south...","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">16:7 \u201cAnd indeed through the prophet Jehu son of Hanani the word of the Lord had come against Baasha and against his house, because of the evil he had done in the eyes of the Lord to vex Him by the work of his hands, to become like the house of Jeroboam, and because he had struck him down.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This clause is a little cryptic. The initial \u201che\u201d has to be Baasha, and so the person he struck down is Jeroboam. Since the destruction of the house of Jeroboam for the offense of idolatry was announced in a divinely authorized prophecy, one might have thought that there was no sin in Baasha\u2019s killing Jeroboam and all the males of his house. Perhaps the writer means to suggest that ruthless murder, even if it is the enactment of deserved retribution, remains ruthless murder, especially if the motives of the killer are far from noble, as appears to be the case with Baasha. In all these reports, the writer manifestly struggles with putting forth a theological explanation for political upheavals. The history of the kingdom of Judah, whatever its vulnerabilities and cultic derelictions, reflects relative stability: Asa\u2019s reign lasts for forty years, while a series of kings in the rival kingdom of Israel are assassinated, with one regnal span as little as two years and another only seven days. One might infer that this instability goes back to the fact that the northern kingdom was established by a usurper, Jeroboam, in contrast to the Davidic dynasty in the south with its claim of divine election and the heroic figure of David as its iconic founder. The writer, however, feels constrained to explain that each murdered monarch perished because of his idolatrous ways.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From: Robert Alter, <em>The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. Norton &amp; Co., 2019, ad loc. 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