{"id":63954,"date":"2019-10-03T14:35:57","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T11:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=63954"},"modified":"2023-04-30T17:58:11","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T14:58:11","slug":"the-high-places-shrines-were-accepted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-high-places-shrines-were-accepted\/","title":{"rendered":"The High Places (Shrines) Were Accepted"},"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":[444],"acf":{"old_id":"63954","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":54356,"related_cahpter":"321","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"By everyone, except the editor of the Book of Kings","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">12:4 \u201cBut the high places were not removed &#8212; the people were still sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This repeated formula registers the view of the editor of the Book of Kings that worship on the high places constituted actual or at least potential paganism and violated the principles of the exclusive legitimacy of the cult in the Jerusalem temple. In point of historical fact, Jehoiada as regent could certainly have taken steps to eliminate the local altars on the high places if he regarded them as sinful, so we may infer that he, his priestly colleagues, and the king did not think worship on the high places was forbidden.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From: Robert Alter, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Hebrew Bible<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. Norton &amp; Co., 2019, ad loc. 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