{"id":64181,"date":"2019-10-08T09:38:56","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T06:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=64181"},"modified":"2023-05-04T16:36:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T13:36:46","slug":"details-details-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/details-details-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Details Details"},"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":[939,720,363,721],"acf":{"old_id":"64181","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34243,"related_cahpter":"325","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"When the sources differ: triangulating the biblical reality","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is high time to review the fact that the Book of Kings is not our only biblical source for the history of the Judean and Samarian monarchies. There is also the Book of Chronicles. In most cases, the narratives of these two books differ largely in their perspectives (we will have more to say about this when we reach Chronicles), but occasionally\u2014as in the case of this chapter\u2014they differ in their recitation of factual information, as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to our chapter, Ahaz \u201cfollowed the ways of the kings of Israel. He even consigned (<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">he`evir<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) his <\/span><b>son<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the fire, in the abhorrent fashion of the nations which the LORD had dispossessed before the Israelites\u201d (3). Chronicles, however, reports <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201che made offerings in the Valley of Ben-hinnom and burned (<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">vayav`er<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) his <\/span><b>sons<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in fire\u201d (2 Chr. 28:3). Which was it: One son or many sons?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Malbim, characteristically, noted that there is a distinction between burning something, and consigning it to the flames\u2014 the former suggesting the possibility of partial burning and the latter implying its total consumption. Hence, we may infer that Ahaz had placed more than one son into the fire, one of whom was completely consumed while the other emerged yet alive. Indeed, the Talmud stipulates that \u201cHezekiah\u2019s father [i.e., Ahaz] sought to do so to him, but his mother protected him as a salamander\u201d (BT Sanhedrin 63b), which, according to rabbinic lore, was fireproof.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Furthermore, whereas Kings reports that the coalition of Aram and Israel \u201cbesieged Ahaz, but could not overcome [him]\u201d (5), Chronicles states explicitly that Aram \u201cdefeated him and took many of his men captive\u201d (2 Chr. 28:5). In this case, we actually have a third biblical source, the Book of Isaiah, which seems to side with Kings, stating that the coalition \u201cmarched upon Jerusalem to attack it; but they were not able to attack it\u201d (Isaiah 7:1). Malbim, ever intent upon preserving the literal integrity of Scripture, saw the two versions as congruent, explaining that whereas Jerusalem withstood assault, an initial, successful, Aramean attack took place elsewhere in Judah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We shall shortly (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/page\/327\/post\/64349\">chapter 18<\/a>) have another occasion to compare these three biblical sources in the matter of Sennacherib\u2019s invasion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":64182,"id":64182,"title":"2kings16-trig2","filename":"2kings16-trig2.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2kings16-trig2.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/details-details-2\/2kings16-trig2\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"2kings16-trig2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":64181,"date":"2019-10-08 06:37:57","modified":"2019-10-08 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