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While it is not actually a word, the four letters are taken from instances of the verb \"to be.\" The words for \"he was\" \"he is\" and \"he will be\" are \u05d4\u05d9\u05d4, \u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d9\u05d4, <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">haya, hoveh, yihyeh<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>,<\/em> thus making the Name a sort of permutation of these forms together, implying eternity, and the oft-used translation, the Eternal.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This leads to one last observation on the letters of the Name. The three letters (the \u05d4 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>hey<\/em> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is used twice) are actually special letters in Hebrew. In fact, the first-century Jewish historian and philosopher Josephus said that this Name consists of \"four vowels\" (The Jewish War V, 5:235). Wait \u2013 vowels? 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From the early thirteenth century when Pope Gregory IX directed King Louis IX of France to burn every copy of the Talmud in Paris to the mid twentieth century when Stalin burned the entire Judaica collection in the capital of the Jewish Oblast of Russia, Jewish texts have been prime targets.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unfortunately, Jews themselves have not been guiltless of this crime. The Rambam\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Guide to the Perplexed<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was deemed heretical by some Jewish factions and burned in France in 1233. <\/span>In 1954 The\u00a0Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada (UOR, not to be confused with the OU)\u00a0burned the books of Mordecai Kaplan, co-founder of the Reconstructionist Movement.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first recorded instance of Jewish book-burning occurs in Jeremiah Chapter 36. God instructed Jeremiah to dictate all of his prophecies since the time of King Josiah to his scribe Baruch ben Neriah, and then have his scribe read the scroll to the people in hopes that it would lead them to repentance. Word of this book got out to the ministers of King Jehoiakim, and they ordered it to be read to them. The ministers took it to heart and ordered that it also be read directly to the King, who was, in fact, the son of King Josiah. Josiah was the King who, during renovations to the Holy Temple, was presented with a newly found, but long-forgotten Torah scroll (2 Kings 22). When he was read the portion that the scroll was open to \u2013 about repentance \u2013 he tore his clothes in mourning for the loss of religious life and Torah knowledge. His son, however, in being presented with a similar message through Jeremiah, did the opposite. As the scroll of Jeremiah\u2019s prophecies was read to him, King Jehoiakim only heard it as a prophesy of his own downfall, and his loss of power. His response was to systematically tear the scroll itself into pieces and burn each piece until nothing was left. If it was going to threaten his reign, then no one else was going to hear a dissenting opinion, even if it was the word of God.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But Jehoiakim underestimated who he was dealing with. The response to book-burning and to silencing the truth came swiftly from God. 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Maybe, he hopes, writing a book and disseminating it widely can still make people change their ways.\u00a0 Baruch records the prophecies and begins reading them around Jerusalem \u2013 first in the House of God, then in the chamber of Gemaryahu Ben Shafan, a royal scribe and then to a gathering of princes.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The words strike fear in the hearts of their audiences. The royal servants who hear the readings insist that the scroll must be read to the king, who is sitting in his winter house in front of a blazing fire. But when the king hears the prophecies, he is not afraid, but calmly cuts up the scroll and throws it into the fire, piece by piece.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why did the king reject and destroy the prophecy? 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The Chaldeans (i.e., Babylonians) are getting ready to conquer Jerusalem again, this time threatening to destroy it completely. Jeremiah decides to start a new life outside of Jerusalem. However, as he is leaving the city, he is arrested. He is accused of defecting to the Chaldeans. He claims this accusation is a lie, but Jeremiah is beaten and imprisoned anyway.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Embedded in this arrest story is a fascinating subtext. The guard officer who arrests him is Irijah son of Shelemiah son of Hananiah. For close readers of Jeremiah, the name Hananiah might ring a bell.\u00a0 Back in Chapter 28, we met Hananiah son of Azzur who was described there by Jeremiah as a false prophet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hananiah prophesied that God would break the yoke of the Babylonians and that those who had already been taken into exile by Nebuchadnezzar would return. 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One can also understand Irijah\u2019s assumption that Jeremiah is in cahoots with the Babylonians \u2013 after all, Jeremiah has spent his entire prophetic career predicting the destruction of Judah by their hand.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the most striking features of this situation is Jeremiah\u2019s total lack of self-awareness and sensitivity towards others. Imprisoned, with his life on the line, Jeremiah speaks to King Zedekiah. In verse 18, he asks what wrong he has done to deserve such treatment. In verse 19, he seems to mock the dead, sardonically asking where the false prophets are (such as Hananiah and others like him) who thought Judah would be spared. Then, in verse 20, Jeremiah begs for his life.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jeremiah shows no recognition of the consequences of his actions. He mocks his deceased rivals in one breath and then asks to be given mercy in the next.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Throughout his career, Jeremiah seems to think that people want to kill him because he is delivering bad news of God\u2019s judgement against them. He sees himself as a truth-teller and a victim of unjust persecution. But what if Jeremiah is wrong? Perhaps people want to kill him not because of the content of his prophecies, but because he is unkind, vindictive, and self-righteous.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jeremiah offers us a chance to reconsider how we see ourselves. In those moments when we need to speak hard truths to others, can we do so from a place of kindness? Doing so may be what releases us from our own prisons.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Image: Jeremiah in the Pit, The Art Bible, with numerous illustrations, 1896, G. 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The king was then sitting at the Benjamin Gate\u201d (7). He approached the king on behalf of Jeremiah and secured his permission to free the prophet from his captivity lest he die there of starvation (10). He collected \u201cworn cloths and rags,\u201d fashioned a rope, and pulled him up from the pit (11) and returned him to the place of his earlier confinement (13) where, presumably, he was better fed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who was Ebed-melech?<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Literally, Ebed-melech means a servant of a king, a term that could be applied to any royal subject. Rashi identified him with Baruch ben Neriyah, Jeremiah\u2019s scribe, an identification that was already made in the tannaitic Midrash Sifrei. Rashi also alluded to a different rabbinic interpretation that identified \u201cthe Cushite\u201d as Zedekiah himself; that would make <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ebed Melech<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">haCushi<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> an anonymous royal servant of Zedekiah the Cushite\u2014an opinion shared by Radak. In Numbers 12:1, Moses\u2019s wife is called a Cushite, which some regarded as a euphemism for exceptional. Zedekiah, Rashi claimed, exhibited exceptional righteousness.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shadal,* however, took Ebed-melech as a proper noun, similar to the better-known name Abi-melech, since if it were a common noun it would have had to be Ebed Ha-melech. He also appears to have taken Cushite literally as someone from Ethiopia, since he added an observation that \u201cto this very day, Ethiopian eunuchs are highly regarded and serve in the palaces of oriental kings.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the king\u2019s \u201csitting at the Benjamin Gate,\u201d Shadal noted simply that \u201che was not at home [in the palace], but at one of the city gates.\u201d My personal assumption is that the Benjamin Gate stood at the northern end of the city\u2014since that is where the territory of Benjamin began\u2014which would also make it the closest access point to the oncoming Babylonians. The king, perhaps recalling Jeremiah\u2019s prophecy of 1:14, \u201cthe catastrophe will commence from the north,\u201d may have gone there to assess the city\u2019s military situation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*For an explanation of our objectives in studying Shadal\u2019s commentary, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/page\/401\/post\/69068\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">see our introduction<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Jeremiah chapter 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What good will the truth do either of them? \u201cIf I tell you, you\u2019ll surely kill me; and if I give you advice, you won\u2019t listen to me\u201d (38:15). The king, understanding his skepticism, reassures the prophet \u2013 but only halfway. \u201cAs the LORD lives who has given us this life, I will not put you to death\u2026\u201d (ibid. 16), but he says nothing about accepting advice. He knows he doesn\u2019t want to know.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is some irony in the way the king swears by his divine soul: As Abarbanel points out, this choice of oath indicates he believes in God; his clandestine demand that Jeremiah give it to him straight also implies he\u2019s certain, by now, that Jeremiah is God\u2019s true prophet. And yet \u2013 he knows, and doesn\u2019t want to know. He believes in God and His prophet but can\u2019t bring himself to fully accept the words of that prophet. He won\u2019t punish Jeremiah for his doomsday prophecies, but he can\u2019t quite accept them, either.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019ve all had similar experiences in many areas of life, not just watching fictional television shows.\u00a0 We seek information and advice, but we don\u2019t want to accept what we hear. Sometimes experts disagree and we don\u2019t know who to believe, and sometimes we\u2019re pretty sure yet still reluctant to act. It can be hard to face the reality of what we must do.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the short time since I began thinking about this post, the challenge has only intensified, as we face a global health crisis with experts calling for unprecedented action in many places. We all want to know; it seems like COVID-19 is all anyone talks about! Yet many of us struggle to fully implement these necessary changes.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But while there\u2019s no danger in watching sensationalist television shows halfway, we can\u2019t afford to cover our eyes from real life, especially when we are responsible for others.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zedekiah peeked through his fingers to find out what the prophet had to say, but he stopped there. Taking appropriate action would have required pulling his hands away completely, facing the reality of the situation, and following Jeremiah\u2019s guidance to give himself up to the Babylonian ruler (ibid. 17), no matter how painful or risky (ibid. 19).<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His hesitation is understandable, but the prophet warns him the consequences will be catastrophic, and he\u2019ll be (partly) to blame: \u201cYou will burn down this city by fire\u201d (ibid. 23). 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King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon put Gedaliah son of Ahikam son of Shaphan in charge of the people whom he left in the land of Judah. When the officers of the troops and their men heard that the king of Babylon had put Gedaliah in charge, they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah...Gedaliah reassured them and their men, saying: Do not be afraid of the servants of the Chaldeans. Stay in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will go well with you. In the seventh month, Ishmael son of Nethaniah son of Elishama, who was of royal descent, came with ten men, and they struck down Gedaliah and he died; [they also killed] the Judeans and the Chaldeans who were present with him at Mizpah\u201d (II Kings 25:21-25).<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It may be that Gedaliah is also mentioned as one of those who begged King Jehoiakim not to burn the first scroll that Jeremiah had dictated to Baruch, according to the version of Jeremiah 43:25 preserved in the 2<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nd<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> century BCE Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our Chapter adds an important detail to the Biblical record of Gedaliah. When the Babylonians \u201chad Jeremiah brought from the prison compound, they committed him to the care of Gedaliah son of Ahikam son of Shaphan, that he might be left at liberty in a house. So, he dwelt among the people\u201d (Jeremiah 39:14).<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gedaliah was from a distinguished Jerusalemite family. His grandfather, Shaphan the Scribe, was a key figure in the discovery of the Book of the Law (possibly the Book of Deuteronomy) found in the Temple in the days of King Josiah (see II Kings Chapter 22). A generation later, in the time of King Jehoiakim, Gedaliah\u2019s father: \u201cAhikam son of Shaphan, protected Jeremiah, so that he was not handed over to the people for execution\u201d (Jeremiah 26:24).<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Extra-biblical substantiation of the important position held by Gedaliah is preserved in three clay seal impressions. One of these bullae was discovered in 1935 in the excavations at Tell ed-Deweir (Biblical Lachish). This archaeological find, dated to roughly 600 BCE., bears the inscription, \u201cGedalyahu, who is over the house \u2013 asher al ha-bayit\u201d. In the Hebrew Bible this title refers to a chief position within the king\u2019s court. It seems that this seal was originally attached to a document sent by Gedaliah from Jerusalem to the fortress of Lachish. 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This is our normative interpretation of how a prophecy is supposed to work- it is supposed to be a transmission or communication between God and the People of Israel via a chosen intermediary, a prophet. God chooses the prophet, gives him a message, and the prophet transmits the message to the people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The prophet also has the opportunity to communicate back to God through prayer; he is allowed, or compelled, to defend the People to God and pray on their behalf. In other words, the prophet receives words from God, and is allowed to challenge God back with his words.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In broad terms, Jeremiah resembles other prophets in form and function. 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In this chapter, we hear again in verse 18 a phrase that makes clear the message is not just theoretical, \u201cFor I will surely deliver you, and you will not fall by the sword, but your life shall be for a spoil; because you trusted in Me, says God.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The message from above is clear: God controls the sword of Israel\u2019s enemy, and can use it to mete out punishment unto the Israelites, including Jeremiah. The best case scenario, according to this verse, is to escape physically intact.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Is this really a demonstration of God\u2019s grace or mercy? Jeremiah may be alive, but his body will always be a testament of the war that was raged over it. The suffering of the prophet's people and of the prophet himself will be forever embedded in his body. His word- his essential tool of prophecy- is not sufficient. Jeremiah\u2019s body frequently becomes the medium upon which prophecy and prophetic metaphor are staged.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though it is hard to stomach, the narrative that acts upon Jeremiah\u2019s body reminds us that there are people carrying trauma with them all the time, even if we can\u2019t see it on their bodies. When we meet someone, we might encounter scars, physical or emotional. 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Instead, the chapter records the speech that Nebuzaradan, chief of the Babylonian guards, delivered to Jeremiah, after sacking Jerusalem: \"The chief of the guards took charge of Jeremiah, and he said to him, \u201cThe LORD your God threatened this place with this disaster; and now the LORD has brought it about. He has acted as He threatened, because you sinned against the LORD and did not obey Him. That is why this has happened to you\u2026If you would like to go with me to Babylon, come, and I will look after you. But, if you don\u2019t want to come with me to Babylon, you need not. See, the whole land is before you: go wherever seems good and right to you.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before we return to our question of the missing prophecy, let us ponder this unusual speech of Nebuzaradan. If we examine its components, it is more similar to a rabbi's sermon than to the proclamation of a Babylonia guard!\u00a0 Firstly, it acknowledges God's call for repentance. It then attributes Jerusalem's destruction to the sins of the people. Lastly, it asserts that Jeremiah still has free will to choose his own destiny.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nebuzaradan's speech has similar themes with the last prophecy that God said to Moses before entering the Land of Israel: \"I have put before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life\u2014if you and your offspring would live\u2014 by loving the LORD your God, heeding His commands, and holding fast to Him. For thereby you shall have life and shall long endure upon the soil that the LORD swore to your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give to them.\" (Deuteronomy chapter 30)<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It seems to me that Nebuzaradan's speech to Jeremiah is the prophecy referred to at the beginning of the chapter. Just as God instructed the people when they entered the land with Moses, God instructs the people in Jeremiah's time, as they are being deported to Babylon.\u00a0 However, since this is a period of Exile, God's message comes through unusual means, including through monologues of Babylonian guards.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Upon hearing Nebuzaradan speak these words of prophecy, Jeremiah was at a loss at what to do. The Bible indicates this with the unusual phrase: \"But Jeremiah still did not turn back.\" Was Jeremiah trying to ascertain if this was really a message from God? Was he simply too shocked to take action upon hearing the word of God emanate from a Babylonian guard?\u00a0 Whatever the case may be, Nebuzaradan needed to prod Jeremiah further before heeded the prophetic message of God.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After forty years of giving prophecies, Jeremiah learned a new lesson regarding them: Prophecies from God are able to be given through any source that God deems fit to give them.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Image: Babylonian head, early 7th C BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":72019,"alt":"","title":"jer40-babylonian","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer40-babylonian.jpg","width":599,"height":800,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer40-babylonian-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer40-babylonian-225x300.jpg","medium-width":225,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer40-babylonian.jpg","medium_large-width":599,"medium_large-height":800,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer40-babylonian.jpg","large-width":599,"large-height":800,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer40-babylonian.jpg","1536x1536-width":599,"1536x1536-height":800,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer40-babylonian.jpg","2048x2048-width":599,"2048x2048-height":800,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer40-babylonian.jpg","post_full_size-width":599,"post_full_size-height":800,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer40-babylonian-314x420.jpg","home_baner-width":314,"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":"","tile_main_caption":"Nebuzaradan\u2019s Prophecy","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"The Babylonian guard speaks the word of God\u00a0","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":72019,"alt":"","title":"jer40-babylonian","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer40-babylonian.jpg","width":599,"height":800,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer40-babylonian-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer40-babylonian-225x300.jpg","medium-width":225,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer40-babylonian.jpg","medium_large-width":599,"medium_large-height":800,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer40-babylonian.jpg","large-width":599,"large-height":800,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer40-babylonian.jpg","1536x1536-width":599,"1536x1536-height":800,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer40-babylonian.jpg","2048x2048-width":599,"2048x2048-height":800,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer40-babylonian.jpg","post_full_size-width":599,"post_full_size-height":800,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer40-babylonian-314x420.jpg","home_baner-width":314,"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,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Jeremiah","chapter":"40","chapter_main_number":"440","date":"20270506","wall_id":"440"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":15,"id":"72023","color":"#f8ebe3","size":"1","name":"Seeing Ourselves As Others See Us      ","post_title":"Seeing Ourselves As Others See Us","slug":"seeing-ourselves-as-others-see-us","old_id":"72023","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":44114,"post_title":"Shalom Holtz","slug":"shalom-holtz","old_id":"44114","first_name":"Shalom ","last_name":"Holtz ","description":"Shalom E. 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This begins with Jethro, father-in-law of Moses, who \"heard all that God had done for Moses and Israel\" in the Exodus from Egypt, \"rejoiced over all the kindness that the Lord had shown Israel\" and declared, \"Blessed be the Lord . . . who delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians. Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods\" (Exodus 18:1, 9, 10\u201311).<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Forty years later, as Israel is on the verge of entering Canaan, Rahab tells Joshua's spies, \"no man has any more spirit because of you; for the Lord your God is the only God in heaven above and on earth below\" (Joshua 2:11). Later still, the Queen of Sheba is \"left breathless\" by King Solomon's wisdom and successful establishment of the monarchy. She declares, \"Praised be the Lord your God, who delighted in you. . . It is because of the Lord's everlasting love for Israel that He made you king\" (1 Kings 10:5, 9). These speeches give expression to the message of the biblical story: with God's favor, Israel succeeds.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0As with the successes, so it is with the nation's ultimate failure, the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem, and the end, in some sense, of the national narrative. Our chapter opens with the words of the last of the outside observers, Nebuzaradan, chief of the guards: \"The Lord your God threatened this place with this disaster; and now the Lord has brought it about . . . because you sinned against the Lord and did not obey Him. That is why this has happened to you\" (Jeremiah 2:2\u20133). 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