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God promised that Jehu would rid the country of the scourge of the house of Ahab, and rid them he does. Chapters 9 and 10 are full of the bloody campaign of Jehu. The body count is astounding. In chapter 9, Jehu kills 1) Joram, 2) Ahaziah, 3) Jezebel. Three is a very small number, but Jehu gets bonus points for killing not only the king of Israel, but also the king of Judah and the queen mother. In chapter 10, the gloves are off. It turns out that Ahab, like the judge Gideon, had 70 sons. At the start of chapter 10, these 70 become \u2018kills\u2019 number 4-73 with a bonus for the heads being placed in baskets and sent to Jehu. Not content with baskets of severed heads, Jehu has them piled up in heaps outside the city.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The next deaths are not numbered, but the text goes into great detail about who was killed. Jehu dispensed with not only the rest of Ahab\u2019s household, but also killed all the lords, Ahab\u2019s friends, and his priests. It is unclear if these are priests of Baal or priests that worked in the Golden Calf sanctuaries. Numbered kills 73-115 are courtesy of the 42 brothers of Ahaziah that Jehu meets along the way to Samaria. The group of 42 claim to be traveling to salute the king and queen. It is possible that they had not yet heard about the royal massacre in chapter 9 or that they were coming to pledge fealty to Jehu. It does not matter, because Jehu takes them alive, and then has them killed over a pit.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

He returns to Samaria and then kills another unknown number of people connected to the house of Ahab in Samaria. Jehu then fakes a major Baal-fest at the main temple in Samaria. He gathers every single Baal priest and Baal worshiper in Israel to a jam-packed Baal event. As the party rages inside, Jehu channels his inner Samson. He traps the people inside, and instructs his men to slaughter every single last one of them. The exact number is not listed in the text, but there is another source one can use to estimate. In Judges 16, the text describes that the temple of Dagon housed over 3000 individuals. It is very likely that the temple to Baal accommodated at least that amount if not more. The final tally for Jehu is unknown, but the last two chapters give no doubt that Jehu\u2019s campaign was both highly successful and highly bloody.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Following the death of Jezebel, the next King of Israel, Jehu, makes it his mission to destroy all of the remaining family of Ahab and to wipe out any remnant of Baal worship in the land. Knowing that he is a military captain and not part of the royal lineage, Jehu sets up a loyalty test to solidify his rule. This test involves the people decapitating the remaining 70 children and grandchildren of Ahab and delivering their heads to Jehu. He then moves on to eliminating the many devotees of Baal, the prophets, priests and lay people, along with their places of worship, all of which are summarily destroyed.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Yet, after all of this drama and effort to eliminate the pervasive presence of Baal, Jehu ultimately fails to end his reign as a \u201cgood King\u201d. In two consecutive verses we hear both of his great victory and his great failure. Verse 28 celebrates that Jehu has successfully accomplished the daunting feat of abolishing Baal from Israel, however this is immediately followed by a big \u201cbut\u201d in verse 29. But, Jehu did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam\u2026 and did not remove the Golden Calves.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Really? Jehu, who describes himself as \u201czealous for God\u201d (v. 15) doesn\u2019t know better than to finish off the task? What is it about these Golden Calves? Abarbanel explains that the calves were not intended as idols or worshipped as such by their creator, Jeroboam, and likewise Jehu did not see them as a threat. Jeroboam simply created them as symbols of his tribe, Ephraim. However, over time, the people began to worship them. And such was the case with Jehu, who we are told in the next verses was not able to continue to walk in the path of God, despite having shed so much blood in his attempt to do so.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Much as with the original Golden Calf of Exodus, the people in the time of Jehu, who were accustomed to a life of idolatry, could not make such an abrupt shift to a new life of monotheism overnight. Simply destroying the infrastructure of Baal worship could not change their hearts and undermine their temptations. As with all ingrained behaviors, addictions and beliefs, change is a process and having options for regression, such as golden calves laying around, makes that process even harder. While Jehu\u2019s zealous intentions may have been good, he failed to know his audience and even to know himself. Golden Calves would once again be the downfall of Israel.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Can we please have an honest, off the record moment?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I generally read Scripture with the following two assumptions: God is speaking to us through the narratives and instructions percolated through the hearts of fallible men and women who lived a long time ago. As a result, I deliberately read against the grain, looking through the surface distractions to try to locate the divine glimmer below the surface.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Almost always, that mode of reading (which I think is a fair characterizing of rabbinic midrash and traditional 'darshanim,' preacher, as well) works: there a loads of compassion, justice, inspiration, and ethical decency to be mined in the mother lode of Tanach.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But for a moment, I have to throw my hands up and surrender.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

King Jehu is determined to show his passion for the God of Israel. Does he do that by eliminating poverty? By welcoming the stranger? By providing care for the sick or the widow, shelter for the homeless?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

No. He shows his passion for God by preparing the brutal deliberate slaughter of all the followers of Baal. And this after butchering the surviving kin of his predecessor, King Ahab. 70 innocent relatives, murdered. While venturing from that massacre to the next, he runs across 42 relatives of the dead king of Judah, Ahaziah. He kills them too. Then all the followers of Baal are gathered through subterfuge into a single room and ordered his guards to kill each and every one of them with their swords, a gruesome, painful, and terrifying death.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Is that really the service of the Divine?\u00a0 Isn\u2019t it true that the dark underside of religious faith is the propensity to make mediocre people say and do truly terrible things?\u00a0 Religion often inspires our best. But it can also bring out our monstrous bloodlust and judgmentalism.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I would have liked a biblical gesture of understanding \u2013 yes, this is intolerable, and God is repulsed by this dogmatic bloodshed. What about ourselves, and religious authorities throughout the ages? There have been rabbis who demand the literal application of these murderous verses in various political contexts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But there have also been humane voices that repudiate those views in the name of key Torah values. Rabbi Abraham ben Maimonides states in his Torah commentary, that Amalek was wiped out in the days of King Saul. Rabbi Yosef Babad, Minhat Hinukh (1869) wrote that \u201ctoday we are not commanded to do this\u2019 because Sennacherib already arose and mixed up the world.\u201d In our time, we must apply the Torah\u2019s loftiest values. The justification for religious killings is toxic and we must summon the courage to reject it.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The ambivalence of the chapter\u2019s attitude towards Jehu is highlighted in the closing lines of the chapters dedicated to Jehu. On the one hand, the Tanakh testifies about him:\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Lord said to Jehu, \u2018Because you have acted well and done what is right in My eyes...to the house of Ahab, your descendants will sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation. (10:30).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

On the other hand, Jehu is flawed in his service of God: Jehu was not careful to follow wholeheartedly the teaching [Torah] of the Lord, God of Israel; he failed to abandon the sins of Jeroboam who led Israel astray\u201d (10:31).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jehu\u2019s heart was not \"whole\" with God, not fully committed to God. Of course, this is problematic. If Jehu is to enact a bloody purge of idolatry, his religious integrity should be flawless.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The biblical narrative has focused upon Jehu's rise to power, but what of Jehu's twenty-eight-year rule? The closing lines of II Kings 10 offer only a scant but representative glimpse of Jehu's era, a period of national decline: \u201cIn those days, the Lord began to reduce Israel. And Hazael smote them throughout the territory of Israel east of the Jordan, all the land of the Gilead\u2026\u201d (II Kings 10:32-33).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What we witness here is a total capitulation on Israel's eastern front, in which Hazael's forces dominate the Israelite tribes on the east side of the Jordan. \"The Lord began to reduce Israel\" sounds very much like divine displeasure with Jehu. The waning of Israel's power may have political underpinnings. Jehu's assassination of Jezebel and his removal of Baal engendered a rupture of ties with Phoenicia; his execution of the royals of Judah left him without a southern ally. This situation damaged the kingdom military and economically, leaving Jehu vulnerable and weak. And yet it is not without some irony that Jehu, the swashbuckling military captain, proved inept at defending his people, unable to succeed on the battlefield where his predecessor failed.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In these final lines of the chapter, Jehu is not a success story. We leave this dramatic episode with a complex understanding of Jehu: on the one hand a zealot for God, but on the other hand a man who failed to adopt for himself the high standards that he demanded from others. As shall be seen, his is the longest-ruling dynasty of the northern kingdom, and yet he presides over the beginning of a period in which Israel will suffer greatly from Aramean dominance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Alex Israel, II Kings: In a Whirlwind, Maggid Books, 2019, Jehu\u2019s Revolt\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":63310,"alt":"","title":"Alex Israel - 2_kings_cover","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover.jpg","width":1711,"height":1821,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover-282x300.jpg","medium-width":282,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover-768x817.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":817,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover-962x1024.jpg","large-width":962,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover.jpg","1536x1536-width":1443,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover.jpg","2048x2048-width":1711,"2048x2048-height":1821,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover-1128x1200.jpg","post_full_size-width":1128,"post_full_size-height":1200,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover-395x420.jpg","home_baner-width":395,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"Excerpts from: II Kings - In A Whirlwind","tile_main_caption":"The Lord Began To Reduce Israel","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Ambivalence towards King Jehu and his mixed legacy","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":63310,"alt":"","title":"Alex Israel - 2_kings_cover","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover.jpg","width":1711,"height":1821,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover-282x300.jpg","medium-width":282,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover-768x817.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":817,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover-962x1024.jpg","large-width":962,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover.jpg","1536x1536-width":1443,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover.jpg","2048x2048-width":1711,"2048x2048-height":1821,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover-1128x1200.jpg","post_full_size-width":1128,"post_full_size-height":1200,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover-395x420.jpg","home_baner-width":395,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"II Kings","chapter":"10","chapter_main_number":"319","date":"20261118","wall_id":"319"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":6,"id":"63114","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Some Kingly Sarcasm ","post_title":"Some Kingly Sarcasm","slug":"some-kingly-sarcasm","old_id":"63114","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":54356,"post_title":"Robert Alter","slug":"robert-alter","old_id":"54356","first_name":"Robert ","last_name":"Alter","description":"Robert Alter is the Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, where he has taught since 1967. 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10:9 \u201cAnd it happened in the morning that he came out and stood and said to all the people, \u2018Well, you are innocent! Look, I plotted against my master and killed him, but who struck down all these?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\r\n

This declaration is of course sarcastic (and \u201cwell\u201d has been added in the translation to intimate the tone). Jehu has managed to make the leaders of the Samaritan establishment his accomplices in murder: they can scarcely condemn him for killing the two kings when they are directly responsible for many more deaths.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

From: Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019, ad loc. By permission of the author.<\/p>\r\n

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In our chapter, Jehu made common cause with Jehonadab ben Rechab: \u201cHe greeted him and said to him, \u2018Are you as wholehearted with me as I am with you\u2019? \u2018I am\u2019, Jehonadab replied. \u2018If so, [said Jehu,] give me your hand\u2019. He gave him his hand and [Jehu] helped him into the chariot\u201d (15). Subsequently, Jehonadab participated in Jehu\u2019s stratagem to eliminate all of the priests of Baal in one fell swoop (23 ff.), and that is all we hear of him at this juncture.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The name Jehonadab ben Rechab recurs in the Book of Jeremiah. God instructed Jeremiah \u201cGo to the house of the Rechabites and speak to them\u201d (35:2) and ordered him to tempt them to drink wine. The Rechabites refused, explaining:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We will not drink wine, for our ancestor, Jonadab son of Rechab, commanded us: \u201cYou shall never drink wine, either you or your children (6). Nor shall you build houses or sow fields or plant vineyards, nor shall you own such things; but you shall live in tents all your days, so that you may live long upon the land where you sojourn\u201d (7). And we have obeyed our ancestor Jonadab son of Rechab in all that he commanded us\u2026 (8).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Both the names Jehonadab\/Jonadab and Rechab occurred previously in Tanakh. The former was the name of a wise friend of Amnon, son of King David, who advised him on how to have his way with Tamar (cf. 2 Samuel 13:3 ff.), and the latter was one of a pair of officers of King Saul who betrayed Ish Boshet, Saul\u2019s son, and delivered his head to David (2 Samuel 4:2 ff.). Since the combination is unique to this chapter and to Jeremiah, the medieval exegetes were inclined to regard them as one and the same. Relying on 1 Chronicles 2:55, they also considered them to be descended from Jethro, father-in-law of Moses.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Aaron Demsky, Professor at Bar-Ilan University, captured this identification as follows:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

RECHABITES: A clan headed by Jehonadab, son of Rechab (c. 841 BCE), claiming descent from Jethro and the Kenites. The Rechabites resided among the Israelites, leading a pastoral existence, and abstaining from intoxicating drink. Zealous anti-Baalists, they cooperated with Jehu in extirpating the household of Ahab (2 Kgs. 10.15-27). They still existed in the time of Jeremiah, who held them up to the recalcitrant Judeans as an example of fidelity and self-discipline. 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  1. \u201cFulfilling the word that the LORD had spoken to Elijah.\u201d<\/em> As in the previous chapter, here, too, Jehu takes care to emphasize that not only is he obeying God\u2019s word, he is working hard to fulfill the words he spoke to Elijah. Does Jehu see himself as Elijah\u2019s successor? Doe he seek to be even more zealous than Elijah, using all the political means at his disposal?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Pro or con?<\/em> In these chapters in the Book of Kings, there is divine support expressed for Jehu and his deeds here. But in 182 chapters, in the prophecies of Hosea, a trenchant criticism of Jehu is put forth, on these very deeds: \u201c I will soon punish the House of Jehu for the bloody deeds at Jezreel and put an end to the monarchy of the House of Israel\u201d (Hosea 1:4).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. The Rechabites<\/em>. In another 176 chapters, in Jeremiah 35, we will meet the descendants of Yonadab ben Rechab, who have seceded from civilization, and live a life of temperance and minimalism. What might be the connection between Jonadab\u2019s part in Jehu\u2019s rebellion, and the lifestyle of his offspring? Worth looking into\u2026<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. A hint at what\u2019s going on outside<\/em>. In the nearly 70 verses that tell of Jehu\u2019s internal affairs in his kingdom, two verses (32-33) tell of what\u2019s going on at the borders, and it doesn\u2019t look good: \u201cIn those days the LORD began to reduce Israel; and Hazael harassed them throughout the territory of Israel\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  5. Progressive crisis<\/em>. While getting rid of the remnants of the House of Ahab, Jehu also does away with the king of Judah, Ahaziah, and the royal family (Ahaziah\u2019s 42 brothers). What happens now in Judah? Stay tuned for tomorrow\u2019s chapter.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>","post_main_content_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"2 Kings 10","tile_main_caption":"Points to Ponder","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Insights and questions for personal reflection and group discussion","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"II Kings","chapter":"10","chapter_main_number":"319","date":"20261118","wall_id":"319"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false}],"hide_acf":true,"home_image":false,"home_posts":false,"home_posts_title":"","posts_home":[],"static_cube_title":"","static_cube_brief":"","static_cube_color":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall\/63426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wall"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}