{"id":65138,"date":"2019-11-03T22:54:20","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T20:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=65138"},"modified":"2023-05-28T18:37:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-28T15:37:12","slug":"no-more-prophesying-to-this-short-sighted-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/no-more-prophesying-to-this-short-sighted-king\/","title":{"rendered":"No More Prophesying To This Short-Sighted King"},"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":[402,423,506,813],"acf":{"old_id":"65138","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":64700,"related_cahpter":"342","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Ahaz paid his future enemy to attack, defeat, and exile his own Israelite brethren","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Judeans of Jerusalem disagreed with their king\u2019s judgement and were prepared to support Pekah and Rezin in their bid to overthrow the king and replace him with a puppet (as we saw in chapter 7). The prophet is critical of their rebellion, and with the idea that they would reject the Davidic dynasty. \u201cDo not join the conspiracy\u201d the prophet warns; don\u2019t depose this king (8:9-15)!\u00a0 And indeed, if the people reject the Davidic monarch, here compared to the calm, soothing waters of Siloam pool (8:5-6), the people will have to face the raging waters of the Assyrian conquest which will wipe the kingdom of Judah nearly off the map (8:7-8).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We know from 2 Kings 16:7-9 that Ahaz was so scared, so blinded by the short-term threat of his internal rebellion and external enemies that he did the unthinkable and bribed the Assyrian king to rescue him from Aram and Northern Israel.\u00a0 Ahaz essentially paid his future enemy to embark on the task of attacking, defeating, and exiling his own Jewish brethren. It is no surprise that the prophet tried so adamantly to dissuade the king from this disastrous course! The bribe would simultaneously impoverish Judah, embolden the Assyrians to later move on Judah, and also serve to further destabilize Northern Israel. The first exile was small, but the next wave of exile of the Northern tribes of Zebulun and Naphtali was greater (8:23).\u00a0 And it all happened because the king was so close-minded, unable to accurately read the realities of the situation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The prophet is told to refrain from prophesying more to the wicked Ahaz (8:16-17), a king we know also to have been an idolater from the account in 2 Kings. In the interim, the people might be tempted to pursue council from the spirits \u2013 but a nation must seek out their own God, and so the message for the people must come from elsewhere (8:18-22).\u00a0 The prophet names his two sons Shear-Jashub \u2013 \u201ca remnant will return\u201d (7:3), and Immanuel \u2013 \u201cGod is with us\u201d (7:14), so that even in a generation without direct prophecy, anyone who ever meets these children and recalls their names will remember the words of the prophet: Even in difficult times God is still with us; there will be much destruction in the future, but in the end a remnant will return. \u201cHere stand I and the children the LORD has given me as signs and portents in Israel from the LORD of Hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion\u201d (8:18).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Image: Tiglath-Pileser III and the Syro-Ephraimite War: Kalah Palace Summary Inscription, 729 BCE Tiglath-Pileser III lists the kings who paid him tribute, including [Jeho]ahaz king of Judah \u201cIn all the countries which\u2026 [I received] the tribute of\u2026 Jehoahaz of Judah \u2026 gold, silver, tin, iron, antimony, linen garments with multicolored trimmings\u2026\u201d (Summary Inscription No. 7). 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