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Jeremiah’s first prophecy leads him straight to the territories of the former northern kingdom, Samaria and the Galilee.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jeremiah wishes to outline the process of return to Jerusalem for the remnants of the Israelite kingdom. What can make the people of Ephraim accept the tidings that they are to come back to Jerusalem, having mocked Hezekiah’s invitation eighty years before?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Young Jeremiah must repackage and market an old, unwanted product. He expects the Ephraimites to reject his invitation for three reasons: As descendants of Rachel, who believe that Joseph was Jacob’s chosen son, they are unwilling to embrace the Davidic dynasty; they do not view Jerusalem as the ultimate capital \u2014 Mount Ephraim, and within it, Bethel, is nearer and dearer to them; and the Temple is no holier to them than the places of worship that have served their ancestors for over three hundred years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Jeremiah must overcome these prejudices, so he emphasizes new “selling points.” Jeremiah announces to the children of Ephraim that the Jerusalem to which they will return is not the same one abandoned by Jeroboam centuries before. Jeremiah is careful to strike the House of David from his vocabulary, for the Ephraimites are obviously uninterested in that product. He promises that their return to Zion will be guided by faithful shepherds who will lead the people wisely. In his heart, Jeremiah certainly means Josiah, but to his audience, he remains deliberately vague.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Jeremiah saves the real surprise for last: he tells the people remaining in the north that when they return to a reunited Kingdom of Israel, the Ark of the Covenant will no longer be so important.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ever since Solomon had built the Temple, the Ark had resided in the Holy of Holies, the inner sanctum of the Temple. But before David came to rule in Jerusalem, the Ark of the Covenant was in Shiloh. But after a war with the Philistines, the Ark was never returned to the territory of the northern tribes (see I Sam. 5-6).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Ark became a symbol of the power and glory of the House of David \u2014 and of the weakness and inadequacy of the early Israelite kingdom. Jeremiah acts on his awareness of the Israelites’ sensitivity. The northerners are loath to trust a Judean prophet, so Jeremiah uses five different phrases negating the centrality of the Ark: “people will no longer mention the Ark of the Lord’s covenant or yearn for it; it will be neither remembered nor recalled, and another shall not be made.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Jeremiah, enticing the northerners back to Jerusalem, “liberates” them from any Temple-object fetishism and inspires them to rise from idolatry to the worship of God.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Lau, Binyamin. <\/span>Jeremiah: The Fate of a Prophet<\/span><\/em>. Maggid Books, 2013. \u201c\u2018Marketing\u2019 the Vision of Redemption to the Ephraimites.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":69252,"id":69252,"title":"jer-lau2","filename":"jer-lau2.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jer-lau2.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/running-a-gauntlet-of-pain\/jer-lau2\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"jer-lau2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":69251,"date":"2020-01-27 21:59:05","modified":"2020-01-27 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