{"id":66825,"date":"2019-12-11T15:32:49","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T13:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=66825"},"modified":"2023-07-04T08:23:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T05:23:45","slug":"lessons-our-enemies-teach-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/lessons-our-enemies-teach-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons Our Enemies Teach Us"},"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":[469,898,854],"acf":{"old_id":"66825","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":57331,"related_cahpter":"370","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Those Egyptians are as good for Israel as a broken reed","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Isaiah chapter 36 we have a retelling of the story of Rabshakeh and Sennecharib&#8217;s Assyrian officers&#8217; dire warning to the people of Jerusalem. In his pronouncement, Rabshakeh excoriates the people of Jerusalem for putting their hopes in the hands of Egypt. Rabshakeh uses the metaphor of a reed staff that when leaned on, splinters and punctures the hand of the person using it. The apt analogy warns of leaning too heavily on Egypt for support against the Assyrian armies, for in the end Egypt would be no support at all. The message resonates with Hezekiah and the people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This metaphor is used again in Tanach also to describe Egypt, but the next time is by God through the prophet Ezekiel. In his admonition regarding Egypt, in Ezekiel 29:6-7, Ezekiel describes the Egyptians as &#8220;a reed staff for Israel&#8221; that &#8220;When they grasped you with the hand, you would splinter, And wound all their shoulders, And when they leaned on you, you would break, And make all their loins unsteady.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have two questions: 1) Why would a Prophet a hundred years later borrow the metaphor of the emissary of the Assyrian government? 2) Why is this story\u00a0 of Rabshakeh, which appears again in II Kings and II Chronicles, repeated 3 times? \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The simple answer is that Rabshakeh was correct in his assessment of Egypt and the people listened to what he was saying. They were afraid. That\u2019s why the advisers of Hezekiah wanted Rabshakeh to speak in Aramaic, so the people wouldn\u2019t understand his message. It\u2019s also why we see such a strong reaction from Hezekiah. He is distraught and prays to God. In essence Rabshakeh is actually a very effective prophet. Later on, Ezekiel takes this message and repeats it as a way to remind the people about the forewarning of Rabshakeh and to borrow his effective messaging.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even our enemies can teach us lessons.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":66826,"id":66826,"title":"is36-reed staff","filename":"is36-reed-staff.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is36-reed-staff.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/lessons-our-enemies-teach-us\/is36-reed-staff\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"is36-reed-staff","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":66825,"date":"2019-12-11 13:32:20","modified":"2019-12-11 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