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This chapter contains a prophecy of such striking gloom and doom that it serves as the haftarah (an addition to a Torah reading) of Tish`a b\u2019Av, the fast day that commemorates the very destruction of the Temple that Jeremiah foresaw.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the close of the previous chapter, Jeremiah predicted a day on which <\/span><\/p>\n

they shall bury in Tophet [a site on which child sacrifices were performed] until no room is left. The carcasses of this people shall be food for the birds in the sky and the beasts of the earth, with none to frighten them off (7:32-33). <\/span><\/p>\n

Our chapter commences with what appears to be a continuation:<\/span><\/p>\n

At that time\u2014declares the LORD\u2014the bones of the kings of Judah, of its officers, of the priests, of the prophets, and of the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be taken out of their graves and exposed to the sun, the moon, and all the host of heaven which they loved and served and followed, to which they turned and bowed down. They shall not be gathered for reburial; they shall become dung upon the face of the earth. (8:1-2)<\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier exegetes were divided on whether these verses describe a contemporary exhumation (by the besieging Babylonians) or a prediction of a future event. Shadal* wrote:<\/span><\/p>\n

Josiah had removed human bones from their graves and burned the idolatrous altars to defile them in order to separate the people from idolatry (2 Kings 23:16). Therefore, Jeremiah prophesied that the bones of kings, nobles, priests, prophets, and all who served idols would be exhumed. How would this come to pass? Jerome [the 4<\/span>th<\/span> century Church Father] said that the enemies would do it in order to negate the influence of the dead. It is also possible that as the siege was prolonged, the besieging enemy would take out their frustrations on the dead. Or, perhaps (as suggested by my student Yehudah Osemo), the enemies did it to frighten and upset the people in the city so they would hasten to open its gates.<\/span><\/p>\n

The best-known Scriptural bones, of course, are those of Ezekiel 37, which that prophet would see being brought back to life as a sign of the incipient deliverance out of exile. Here, the bones we encounter stick more to type and represent death and destruction.<\/span><\/p>\n

*For an explanation of our objectives in studying Shadal\u2019s commentary, <\/span>see our introduction.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":69541,"id":69541,"title":"jer8-bones","filename":"jer8-bones.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer8-bones.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/dem-bones-a-chilling-prophecy\/jer8-bones\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"jer8-bones","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":69540,"date":"2020-02-04 03:56:25","modified":"2020-02-04 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