{"id":72119,"date":"2020-03-21T12:01:15","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T10:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=72119"},"modified":"2020-03-21T19:47:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T17:47:02","slug":"power-conflicts-of-biblical-proportions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/power-conflicts-of-biblical-proportions\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Conflicts Of Biblical Proportions"},"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":"72119","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":44114,"related_cahpter":"441","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Ishmael\u2019s murderous acts hark back to earlier struggles...","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The story in our chapter unfolds in locations steeped in conflicts from biblical Israel&#8217;s past.\u00a0 After Ishmael murders Gedaliah, he slaughters a group of men in &#8220;a cistern&#8221; (Jeremiah 41:7). This is not just any waterhole, but one with a history from an earlier civil war: it was the very same one &#8220;that King Asa (of Judah) had constructed on account of King Baasha of Israel&#8221; (41:9).\u00a0 Mizpah, where Gedaliah is murdered, also has a broader connection to this same war between Judah and Israel. According to 1 Kings 16:22, at the end of the conflict, Asa used the ruins of Israelite fortifications to build Mizpah. The hostilities between Ishmael&#8217;s forces and the forces under the leadership of Johanan ben Kareah end &#8220;by the great pool in Gibeon&#8221; (Jeremiah 42:12). This pool, like King Asa&#8217;s cistern, has a history, this time from the monarchy&#8217;s earliest days. It was there that, in the aftermath of King Saul&#8217;s death, fighting broke out between the men loyal to the House of David and those loyal to the House of Saul (2 Samuel 2:12\u201317).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is not only where the story unfolds, but also how, that follows the script of conflicts over power in biblical Israel.\u00a0 The murder of the men &#8220;in a cistern&#8221; recalls Jehu&#8217;s purge of the Omrides, during which the brothers of Ahaziah of King Judah, are &#8220;slaughtered at the pit of Beth-eked&#8221; (2 Kings 10:14).The group of murdered men numbers seventy: of eighty, only ten survive (41:7\u20138). This, too, is in keeping with precedents established by other usurpers of power in Israel&#8217;s past. When Jehu seizes control, he issues orders resulting in the slaughter of Ahab&#8217;s seventy descendants (2 Kings 10:1, 6\u20137). 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