{"id":63653,"date":"2019-09-29T00:44:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T21:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=63653"},"modified":"2023-04-24T18:21:41","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T15:21:41","slug":"is-all-well-zimri-murderer-of-your-master","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/is-all-well-zimri-murderer-of-your-master\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIs All Well, Zimri, Murderer Of Your Master?\u201d"},"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":[931,391],"acf":{"old_id":"63653","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34243,"related_cahpter":"318","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"The return of Jezebel - and her demise","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhat goes around\u2014come around.\u201d That is the contemporary equivalent of the rabbinic expression \u201cBy the measure with which one metes out, so is it meted out to him.\u201d Philosophers and theologians call it <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lex talionis<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Latin for the law of retaliation, and literary types may call it poetic justice. In this chapter, we witness such a reversal of the fortunes of the House of Ahab.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Elijah had cautioned his royal nemesis that \u201cI will bring disaster upon you. I will make a clean sweep of you, I will cut off from Israel every male belonging to Ahab, bond and free\u201d (1 Kings 21:21). In this chapter, Elisha\u2019s appointed messenger, in anointing Jehu to succeed Jehoram son of Ahab, announced: \u201cThe whole House of Ahab shall perish, and I will cut off every male belonging to Ahab, bond and free in Israel (v.8). In that earlier warning, Elijah had said: \u201cIn the very place where the dogs lapped up Naboth\u2019s blood [i.e., his field in Jezreel], the dogs will lap up your blood too\u201d (1 Kings 21:19), and in this chapter the messenger said: \u201cThe dogs shall devour Jezebel in the field of Jezreel, with none to bury her\u201d (10).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Finally, as Jehu approached, Jezebel\u2014who, curiously, had prepared for her denouement by painting her eyes and dressing her hair (30)\u2014 went for the last word, addressing him (as in the title of these remarks) as Zimri, an officer who had rebelled against the earlier King Ba`asha, slaying him and his household (1 Kings 16:10). If Jezebel was up on her royal history\u2014or on her Tanakh, for that matter\u2014there might have been a twinge of sarcasm in this metaphor, given that Zimri ruled for only seven days (16:16). More intriguing, however, is the coincidence (?) that Ba`asha\u2019s downfall was forecast by a prophet named Jehu. Go figure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Image: Queen Jezebel Being Punished by Jehu, by Andrea Celesti, c. 1680<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":63654,"id":63654,"title":"2kings9-Andrea_Celesti_-_Queen_Jezabel_Being_Punished_by_Jehu","filename":"2kings9-Andrea_Celesti_-_Queen_Jezabel_Being_Punished_by_Jehu.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2kings9-Andrea_Celesti_-_Queen_Jezabel_Being_Punished_by_Jehu.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/is-all-well-zimri-murderer-of-your-master\/2kings9-andrea_celesti_-_queen_jezabel_being_punished_by_jehu\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"2kings9-andrea_celesti_-_queen_jezabel_being_punished_by_jehu","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":63653,"date":"2019-09-28 21:44:27","modified":"2019-09-28 21:44:38","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":799,"height":522,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2kings9-Andrea_Celesti_-_Queen_Jezabel_Being_Punished_by_Jehu-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2kings9-Andrea_Celesti_-_Queen_Jezabel_Being_Punished_by_Jehu-300x196.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":196,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2kings9-Andrea_Celesti_-_Queen_Jezabel_Being_Punished_by_Jehu-768x502.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":502,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2kings9-Andrea_Celesti_-_Queen_Jezabel_Being_Punished_by_Jehu.jpg","large-width":799,"large-height":522,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2kings9-Andrea_Celesti_-_Queen_Jezabel_Being_Punished_by_Jehu.jpg","1536x1536-width":799,"1536x1536-height":522,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2kings9-Andrea_Celesti_-_Queen_Jezabel_Being_Punished_by_Jehu.jpg","2048x2048-width":799,"2048x2048-height":522,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2kings9-Andrea_Celesti_-_Queen_Jezabel_Being_Punished_by_Jehu.jpg","post_full_size-width":799,"post_full_size-height":522,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2kings9-Andrea_Celesti_-_Queen_Jezabel_Being_Punished_by_Jehu-643x420.jpg","home_baner-width":643,"home_baner-height":420}},"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"\u201cIs All Well, Zimri, Murderer Of Your Master?\u201d","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"The return of Jezebel - 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