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Amongst the spacious rooms within the Department of the Middle East in the British Museum stands a round-topped, somewhat eroded limestone stele, on which appears the Assyrian King, Shalmaneser III standing before four divine emblems. The stelae \u2013 known as the Kurkh Monoliths \u2013 were discovered in 1861 by British archeologist John George Taylor, then British Consul-General stationed in the Ottoman administrative division of Kurdistan.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The monoliths relate the conquests of the first years of Shalmaneser\u2019s reign. He subjugated lands to the east of the Euphrates before crossing the river, taking major cities like Aleppo, and heading toward the Mediterranean. It was there that he was met by an international coalition at the great Battle at Qarqar in 853 BCE, in what is today northern Syria.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Amongst the coalition is a certain \u201cAhabbu Sirilayu,\u201d who provided 2,000 horses and chariots (more than anyone) and who is considered by scholars to be Ahab the Israelite, who finds his death in battle in Chapter 18 at Ramot Gilead.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

While scholarship often focuses on whether events mentioned in the Bible historically took place, what about events that historically took place which the Bible doesn\u2019t deem to mention?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Qarkar is one of the most strategically important military operations ever undertaken by a Jewish leader. A huge contingent of soldiers and chariots were taken 400 kilometers from their capital in Samaria to try and protect the long-term future of the kingdom against a rising empire.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

For Nadav Na\u2019aman, an Assyriologist and emeritus professor of Jewish History at Tel Aviv University, Ahab is a great strategist and statesman \u201cwho foresaw the threat posed by the Assyrian Empire and realized he had to work with his neighbors, and that\u2019s why he was ready to send the Israelite army to protect such a distant land.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Yet the Tanach is utterly silent about it. The prophet Yehu is even critical of the marriage and military alliance made between Jehoshaphat and Ahab.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In his book \"The Jewish March of Folly,\" journalist Amotz Asa-El argues that the Biblical prophets were ambivalent at best about monarchy, preferring weak entities who were focused on serving the Kingdom of Heaven. In this telling, strategic and political wisdom are deprioritised. What\u2019s important is ethical behavior. That\u2019s what governs how monarchs will be remembered.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Book of Kings relates that \u201cthere was none like Ahab who gave himself to do evil in the sight of the Lord\u201d. The Gemara says that Ahab was one of three kings who had no portion in the world to come. In this world, the Battle of Qarkar is simply not relevant.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Indeed, the Gemara in Sanhedrin 102b quotes Chapter 18 relating to Ahab being tricked into the battle that leads to his death. \u201cAnd there came forth a spirit and stood before the Lord and said I will entice him.\u201d Said Rabbi Yochanan, \u201cit was the spirit of Naboth the Jezreelite\u201d, (who Ahab had killed in order to seize his small vineyard).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ahab\u2019s fate is ultimately determined not by strategic prowess but morality.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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With the weighty nature of the Tanach, it is easy to miss sprinkles of humor. This chapter in II Chronicles (parallel to Kings 22) is one of the Tanach\u2019s funniest chapters.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Here is the scene: Ahab the notoriously wicked king and scourge of Elijah the prophet rules over the immensely wealthy and powerful Northern Kingdom. He invites his in-law, King Jehoshaphat, to help fight a battle. Jehoshaphat is a righteous king, and not as powerful or wealthy as Ahab. The two kings sit on their thrones in a makeshift military camp. Ahab goes all out to impress his guest- throwing a big feast. There, he asks the question: will you come fight with me? The room is silent. With this big set up, Jehoshaphat responds \"what's mine is yours and what's yours is mine.....\"\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

One can imagine Ahab snapping his fingers and the party continuing. \"BUT,\u201d interrupts Jehoshaphat, \"I want you to ask God.\" Ahab, still smiling, is mumbling to himself \"is this guy serious?! Ask God?!\" He holds in his frustration and says \"fine! Bring in the prophets!\" In come four hundred men who begin a seance and dance. They call out in unison \"God wills you to go! You will be victorious!\" Ahab turns to Jehoshaphat with a wide smile- \"See! We should go!\"\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Silence again. Jehoshaphat, unimpressed with the prophet parade, asks if there is a real man of God around. And now, the funniest line in Tanach (verse 7): \"There is one more man through whom we can inquire of the LORD; but I hate him, because he never prophesies anything good for me but always misfortune.\" Jehoshaphat asks that the prophet, Micaiah, be brought anyway.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cThe king of Israel and King Jehoshaphat of Judah, wearing their robes, were seated on their thrones situated in the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them\u201d (verse 8).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Meanwhile, the 400 prophets bring out props: ox horns representing the northern tribes of Joseph: \u201cLet Ahab go forth and gore his enemies with these horns.\u201d The messenger pleads with Micaiah to play nice and match the words of the other prophets. At first he does. But Ahab tells the prophet to tell them the truth like he always does. Micaiah\u2019s fake rosey demeanor immediately vanishes and foretells doom. Ahab turns to Jehoshaphat: \u201cDid I not tell you that he would not prophesy good fortune for me, but only misfortune?\u201d (verse 17). Ahab sends Michaiah to the stocks to await what will happen. The chapter ends with Ahab\u2019s hairbrained scheme to switch clothes to outwit the enemy, which fails.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The humor employed in this chapter serves to highlight the boorishness of Ahab, bringing him down from the evil pedestal he was on with his wife Jezebel in earlier chapters of I Kings.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":100474,"alt":"","title":"2chron18-banana peel 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In 2 Chronicles 18, King Ahab of Israel and King Jehoshaphat of Judah formed an alliance. They planned on waging war together to free Ramoth-gilead from the control of Aram. But before they set off for battle, they wanted to consult with prophets to see if God supported their efforts.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Most of the prophets they consulted said they would be victorious, saying \u201cMarch, and God will deliver it into the king\u2019s hands.\u201d (2 Chronicles 18:5). One of these prophets used a prop to emphasize his confidence:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cZedekiah son of Chenaanah had provided himself with iron horns; and he said, \u2018Thus said the LORD: With these you shall gore the Arameans till you make an end of them.\u2019\u201d (2 Chronicles 18:10)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why did he wear iron horns? The commentaries suggest that horns made of iron were a sign of strength, particularly in war. Iron was an important metal in the Land of Israel, as Moses described it: \u201c\u2026a land whose rocks are iron and from whose hills you can mine copper.\u201d (Deuteronomy 8:9)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It was used to make dangerous tools, \u201cAnyone, however, who strikes another with an iron object so that death results is a murderer\u2026\u201d (Numbers 36:16), as well as weapons, and because of this it was forbidden in the building of the altar: \u201cThere, too, you shall build an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones. Do not wield an iron tool over them.\u201d (Deuteronomy 27:5).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Hebrew word for iron is <\/span>barzel<\/span><\/em>. Some scholars say that it is cognate with <\/span>berez<\/span><\/em>, which originally referred to a hole in a barrel, and today means \u201cfaucet.\u201d According to this theory, both words come from an original root meaning \u201cto drill.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Since iron production began in the Middle East, and from there spread to Europe, it should not be surprising that the Europeans borrowed Semitic words for this metal. However, the number of words that linguists suggest may come from <\/span>barzel<\/span><\/em>\u00a0or its cognates is truly remarkable.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In Aramaic, <\/span>barzel<\/span><\/em>\u00a0is <\/span>parzel<\/span><\/em>, and in Arabic it became <\/span>firzil<\/span><\/em>. Some scholars say that the \u201c-el\u201d suffix dropped in some borrowings, and so eventually became the Latin \u201cferrum\u201d which gives us the atomic symbol Fe for iron. Others suggest that the words \u201cbronze\u201d and \u201cbrass\u201d also derive from the Semitic root <\/span>brz<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

There is even a theory that the country Brazil gets its name from <\/span>barzel<\/span><\/em>. It claims that \u201cbrazil\u201d (and the related \u201cbrazilwood\u201d) originally mean iron, then \u201chard,\u201d then \u201chard-wood.\u201d When Portuguese explorers came to South America, they found trees similar to the brazilwood they knew in Europe.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the end, the prophecy the kings received was false, and they did not defeat Aram. 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Our<\/span> chapter<\/span><\/a> relates how Ahab, king of the Northern Kingdom of Israel and Jehoshaphat, King of Judah, joined forces against their common enemy, the King of Aram, at Ramoth-Gilead on the east side of the Jordan. At the insistence of Jehoshaphat, 400 prophets are consulted, who promise victory. But Jehoshaphat insists on one more prophet being consulted. This turns out to be Micaiah son of Imlah, despite the fact that Ahab<\/span> objects<\/span><\/a> that Micaiah never prophecies anything favorable but only disaster. When summoned, and told by the messenger, to offer a positive prophecy, Micaiah<\/span> responds<\/span><\/a>: \u201cI will speak only what my God tells me\u201d. Micaiah offers three prophecies. The first is positive, promising victory but apparently ironic and perhaps even sarcastic. The<\/span> second<\/span><\/a>, predicting defeat, is negative and metaphoric: \u201cI saw all Israel scattered over the hills like sheep without a shepherd; and the Lord said, \u2018These have no master; let everyone return to his home in safety.\u2019\u201d. The<\/span> third<\/span><\/a> and final prophecy of Micaiah is even more dire: \u201cThe Lord asked, \u2018Who will entice King Ahab of Israel so that he will march and fall at Ramoth-Gilead\u2026for the Lord has decreed misfortune for you!\u2019\u201d. Nevertheless, Jehoshaphat and Ahab march against the Arameans and are defeated. Our chapter ends with the death on the battlefield of King Ahab of Israel (<\/span>verses 18-34<\/span><\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The parallel narrative at<\/span> the end of the First Book of Kings<\/span><\/a>, concludes with an<\/span> extensive addition<\/span><\/a> to our Chapter, which<\/span> begins<\/span><\/a>: \u201cAs the sun was going down, a shout went through the army: \u2018Every man to his own town! Every man to his own district\u2019\u2026\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The first century Jewish historian,<\/span> Josephus<\/span><\/a>, midrashically identifies Micaiah with<\/span> \"a disciple of the prophets\"<\/span><\/a>, who commands one of the Israelites to strike him on the head as instructed by God. When he refused, since he disobeyed a divine command, he would be killed by a lion. When this happened, the prophet commanded another man, who did strike him, wounding his head, which he bound up with a bandage. He then came to King Ahab and told him that he had been a soldier of his, and being responsible for a prisoner who had escaped, he was in danger of being punished by death. King Ahab said that such a punishment would be entirely justified. The prophet Micaiah removed the bandage about his head, revealing his true self to the king. Micaiah used this dramatic subterfuge to prophecy to King Ahab that God would punish him with death, because he had allowed Ben-Hadad, the idolatrous king of Syria, to live. And so, God would punish him with death on the battlefield (see<\/span> I Kings 20:35-42<\/span><\/a>). Ahab is angered, puts the prophet Micaiah in prison (<\/span>II Chronicles 18:26<\/span><\/a>) and returns home disturbed. Micaiah\u2019s prophecy of Ahab\u2019s death is<\/span> fulfilled<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Indubitably, one of the best-known and, perhaps, most beloved of the biblical prophets was Elijah. From his confrontation with the priests of Baal at Mt. Carmel, resuscitating the child of the widow of Zarephath, and his ascent to heaven in a fiery chariot, to his mythical presence at the Seder and at circumcisions. All these are indications of the special status accorded him in Jewish tradition. Roughly half a dozen chapters in Kings (1 Kings 17-2 Kings 2) are devoted to his exploits. Of no less import is his designation as the herald of the Messianic era: \u201cLo, I will send the prophet Elijah to you before the coming of the awesome, fearful day of the L<\/span>ORD<\/span>\u201d (Malachi 3:23).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Curiously, however, Chronicles contains not a single word about Elijah. (Although he does put in a posthumous appearance in Chapter 21, as we shall describe.) Not Elijah alone, but his disciple, Elisha, is also absent from Chronicles even though even more attention is paid to him in Kings (2 Kings 2-9) than to his master. On the other hand, our chapter highlights the activities and spoken words of a prophet named Micaiah son of Imlah (7 ff.) whose only other appearance in Tanakh is in the parallel passage in 1 Kings 22:8 ff.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It seems to me that we are witnessing another of the Chronicler\u2019s editorial decisions based on his bias towards all things Davidic that we have taken note of on previous occasions. (See 2 Chronicles 6 and 11.) Elijah and Elisha, for all their outstanding accomplishments, operated exclusively in the northern kingdom of Israel and had no interactions with the Davidic kings of Judah. Micaiah, who was also a northerner, and who had previously interacted with the Israelite monarchy, might well have escaped the Chronicler\u2019s notice, too, had he not had that problematic interaction with King Jehoshaphat that is reported in Kings and here.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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18:31 \u201cAnd when it happened, when the commanders of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, \u201cHe must be king of Israel,\u201d and they swerved against him to do battle. And Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD aided him, and God drew them away from him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

1 Kings 22 has no report of divine intervention, and the Arameans\u2019 recognition that this is not Ahab (verse 32) makes such intervention unnecessary. The verb in the received text, <\/span>wayesitem<\/span><\/em>, means \u201centiced them,\u201d but several ancient versions show <\/span>wayesirem<\/span><\/em>, \u201cdrew them away\u201d or \u201cremoved them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

From: Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 3: Writings, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019, ad loc. 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  1. Comp lit<\/em>. The parallel to this story can be found in 1 Kings 22, with minor variations. In the beginning of the next chapter we will read the rest of the story, that isn\u2019t in Kings. Stay tuned.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Enticement<\/em>. According to Chronicles, the invitation to wage a joint attack was enticement to do evil. Verse 2 shares the psychological process: Jehoshaphat was enticed at a feast in his honor - food and respect shown him did the job.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
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