{"id":71335,"date":"2020-03-07T23:14:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T21:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=71335"},"modified":"2020-03-07T23:14:45","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T21:14:45","slug":"a-passing-moment-of-hope-and-consolation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/a-passing-moment-of-hope-and-consolation\/","title":{"rendered":"A Passing Moment Of Hope And Consolation"},"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":[],"acf":{"old_id":"71335","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":44114,"related_cahpter":"431","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Hebrew Bible, especially the Book of Kings, remembers Josiah, the Judean king at the beginning of Jeremiah&#8217;s career, for consolidating worship of the God of Israel in Jerusalem (2 Kings 22\u201323:30; 2 Chronicles 34\u201335:19). Taking political advantage of the decline in Assyrian authority over the territory directly to Judah&#8217;s north, the former Kingdom of Israel, Josiah extended his reforming activities into what was once a separate, even enemy, kingdom. According to 2 Kings 23, after Josiah purged idolatry from Jerusalem and its environs, he proceeded to destroy temples at Bethel and Samaria, &#8220;which the kings of Israel had built, vexing [the Lord]&#8221; (2 Kings 23:19). The Book of Chronicles has Josiah at work even further from Judah, &#8220;in the towns of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon, as far as Naphtali&#8221; (2 Chronicles 35:6).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A good part of Jeremiah 31 originates in this period of expansion of Judean authority into Israel&#8217;s territories. It predicts the replanting of &#8220;the hills of Samaria&#8221; (5), near the kingdom&#8217;s capital city of the same name, and &#8220;the watchmen on the heights of Ephraim&#8221; announcing the return to Zion (6). The prophecy uses the tribally specific name Ephraim (9, 18, 20), and calls him God&#8217;s &#8220;dear son&#8221; (20). It also offers comfort to the wailing Rachel, Ephraim&#8217;s paternal grandmother in the Torah (15). The Hebrew Bible&#8217;s account closely associates the kingdom of Israel with the tribe of Ephraim, whose territory and population were main power bases for the kingdom. For example, Jeroboam son of Nebat, who led the original split from the Kingdom of Judah under Rehoboam son of Solomon, descended from this tribe (1 Kings 11:26\u201329; 12:1\u201335). Originally, the restoration and return of &#8220;Israel&#8221; in the prophecy (2, 4, 7, 9, 10, 21), referred to the political entity distinct from &#8220;Judah.&#8221; Jeremiah envisioned a restored united monarchy under Josiah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This hopeful moment in history passed all too quickly, and Judah itself would fall to Babylon.\u00a0 The prophecy, however, remained as part of Jeremiah&#8217;s &#8220;scroll of consolation&#8221; (see Jer 30:1\u20133). The prophecy&#8217;s original political significance faded. At the same time, the prophecy acquired new meaning as later Jewish readers identified with the restored Ephraim and Israel.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","image":false,"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"A Passing Moment Of Hope And Consolation","main_caption":"With the fading of the prophecy's original political significance, the prophecy acquired new meaning as later Jewish readers identified with the restored Ephraim and Israel.","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"","preview_embedded":"","preview_image":false,"preview_video":"","external_link":"","link_for_pay":false,"tile_gallery_items":false,"credits":""},"alternate_tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"","hide_media":false},"tile_group":{"preview_image_url":false,"main_caption":"","sub_caption":"","":null,"popup_package_extra_content":"","read_time":""},"home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo":{"seo_title":"","seo_description":"","seo_default_title":"","seo_default_description":""},"links":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71336,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71335\/revisions\/71336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}