{"id":64088,"date":"2019-10-06T13:56:42","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T10:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=64088"},"modified":"2023-05-03T07:38:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T04:38:12","slug":"conspiracy-theories-hoist-on-ones-own-kesher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/conspiracy-theories-hoist-on-ones-own-kesher\/","title":{"rendered":"Conspiracy Theories: Hoist On One\u2019s Own Kesher"},"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":[938,423],"acf":{"old_id":"64088","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34243,"related_cahpter":"323","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Shifting political alliances, fickleness, and violent regime change","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our chapter relates that once Amaziah felt secure in his reign, he set out to settle the score with \u201cthe courtiers who had assassinated his father,\u201d Jehoash. (5). At the close of an earlier chapter, we read that Jehoash\u2019s servants had conspired against him and murdered him (12:21). That verse featured the term <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">kesher<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (literally, a knot; figuratively, a conspiracy), a term we have encountered on previous occasions and whose recurrence invites examination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our first encounter with it was in 2 Samuel 15:12 where it was used in the description of the plot King David faced to replace him with Absalom. We next found it describing Zimri\u2019s scheme to unseat Ba`asha (1 Kings 16:20), and most recently in Queen Mother Athaliah\u2019s\u00a0 reference to her removal prior to the restoration of Jehoash to his throne (2 Kings 11:14). In other words, Jehoash, who instigated one conspiracy, became a victim of another.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moreover, what went around, came around, and, in our chapter, Amaziah, too, became the victim of a <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">kesher<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (19) that saw him assassinated and his son, Azariah, elevated to his throne. In the next chapter, Hoshea ben Elah will conspire against Pekah ben Remaliah and successfully displace him (15:30), only to be jailed, later, on account of another <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">kesher<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014this one against his Assyrian liege lord (17:4).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The recurrence of the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">kesher<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> phenomenon and its attestation with respect of kings of both Judah and Israel implies that the monarchic idea was not considered sacrosanct and that political allegiances were not regarded as inviolable. Unfortunately, this fickleness extended to the peoples\u2019 allegiance to God, too, and we will find the major prophets inveighing against <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">kesher<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Isaiah (8:12); Jeremiah (11:9); and Ezekiel (22:25).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Image: Albrecht Durer, The Four Angels of Death, detail, 1498 \/ wikipedia<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":64090,"id":64090,"title":"2kings14-regicide1-AD","filename":"2kings14-regicide1-AD.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2kings14-regicide1-AD.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/conspiracy-theories-hoist-on-ones-own-kesher\/2kings14-regicide1-ad\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"2kings14-regicide1-ad","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":64088,"date":"2019-10-06 10:56:29","modified":"2019-10-06 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