{"id":73278,"date":"2020-04-13T12:38:44","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T09:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=73278"},"modified":"2020-04-13T12:38:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T09:38:44","slug":"what-the-elders-of-israel-do-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/what-the-elders-of-israel-do-in-the-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"What The Elders Of Israel Do In The Dark"},"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":"73278","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":54356,"related_cahpter":"460","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"But here - they do it together\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">8:12 \u201cAnd He said to me, \u201cDo you see, man, what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in the chambers of his sculpted images, for they say \u2018The LORD does not see us. The LORD has abandoned the land.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although the elders go on to say that the LORD does not see them, they may be hedging their bets or are perhaps fearful that some groups in the community of Judah&#8211;certainly prophets such as Jeremiah and Ezekiel&#8211;would vehemently object to what they are doing. The fact that they worship strange gods in their private chambers seems to contradict the pagan assembly in the Temple depicted here. Perhaps as a rule they practice their pagan rites in the darkness of their chambers but here have exceptionally joined together to celebrate the cult of strange gods within an inner hall of the Temple, still hidden from the eyes of the general populace but not from the prophet, who has enlarged the hole in the wall so that he can see everything.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From: Robert Alter, <em>The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. 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