{"id":64474,"date":"2019-10-18T14:26:42","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T11:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=64474"},"modified":"2023-05-16T08:51:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T05:51:46","slug":"consolidating-rule-and-moving-to-reunify-the-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/consolidating-rule-and-moving-to-reunify-the-kingdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Consolidating Rule And Moving To Reunify The Kingdom"},"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":[423],"acf":{"old_id":"64474","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":54356,"related_cahpter":"332","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"When the cultic is political","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">23:4 \u201cAnd the king charged Hilkiah the high priest and the assistant priests and the guards of the thresholds to bring out from the Lord\u2019s temple the vessels made for Baal and Asherah and for all the array of the heavens, and he burnt them outside Jerusalem in the Kidron fields and bore off their ashes to Bethel.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bethel was one of the two main sanctuaries of the northern kingdom. Scattering the ashes of the statues of Baal and Asherah on that site would be a way of confirming its illegitimacy or impurity. Josiah\u2019s access to Bethel and, later in this chapter, to other northern sites probably reflects the decline of Assyrian power in the later part of the seventh century BCE. It would appear that the Assyrians at this point had vacated much of the northern kingdom that it conquered in 721 BCE and that Josiah attached these regimes to his own kingdom. Many scholars suspect that his campaign to establish the absolute exclusivity of the Jerusalem cult was at least in part an effort to consolidate his rule over the entire country, in effect reviving the united kingdom that existed in the era of Solomon.\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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