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Post by messimom on Oct 6, 2005 22:37:35 GMT -8
Its funny how you think you are reading the same Bible over and over....but it seems to change just slightly every time I read it!! LOL. I have a question about 2 kings 16:18. Does anyone know what the "sabbath canopy" or "covert for the sabbath" spoken of here is? Reading through this time is the first time I ever recall seeing that phrase and it tipped my curiosity. I, unfortunately, don't have any good resource books so I'm kinda stuck with online references, and only have a few at the ready. So I was wondering about any of you "hound dogs" that love finding the rabbit at the end of the trail and might be able to help me solve this little query of mine. Thank you Messimom
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Post by Chizuk Emunah on Oct 14, 2005 13:16:31 GMT -8
Sorry I didn't get back to you earlier messimom. I was doing some digging and thought the following commentaries may be useful:
Mattew Henry's Commentary: He removed the covert for the sabbath, erected either in honour of the sabbath or for the conveniency of the priests, when, on the sabbath, they officiated in greater numbers than on other days. Whatever it was, it should seem that in removing it he intended to put a contempt upon the sabbath, and so to open as wide an inlet as any to all manner of impiety.
John Wesley's Commentary: The covert - The form and use whereof is now unknown. It is generally understood of some building, either that where the priests after their weekly course was ended, abode until the next course came; which was done upon the sabbath - day: or that in which the guard of the temple kept their station; or that under which the king used to sit to hear God's word, and see the sacrifices; which is called, the covert of the sabbath, because the chief times in which the king used it for those ends, was the weekly sabbath, and other solemn days of feasting, or fasting (which all come under the name of sabbaths in the Old Testament) upon which the king used more solemnly, to present himself before the Lord, than at other times.
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Post by messimom on Oct 17, 2005 22:43:27 GMT -8
Thank you Netzar for responding So, would these commentaries then imply that it would have served as a semi-permanent head covering for administering services and humbling themselves before YHVH? Like a xxl tallit if you will? Its just a small detail in such a huge book, but it caught my eye and peaked my interest. Thanks again Messimom
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Post by Chizuk Emunah on Oct 18, 2005 9:40:58 GMT -8
That would be my understanding. It makes sense that there would be some sort of covering for for the cohenim at the Temple. After all, they were there all day long.
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Post by ihleon on Mar 4, 2023 7:28:07 GMT -8
Almost 20 years have passed for a reply. It was a plague of deceit named Covid and a shepards lust for power, and a big church that has revealed what this verse means. Ahaz is the pastors who have traded the altar of GOD for a foreign altar to make it easier for people to claim Christianity. Ahaz removed the "sabbath canopy" and everything else that GOD ordained for people to come to GOD. The entrance to the altar was changed just like modern pastors have remove the cross as the entrance to GODs presence.
The Bible says there is a highway called holiness and it will be for those who really want to walk with GOD and have a relationship with GOD through true Repentance at the CROSS. The Bible says that the unclean, the unrepentant and the those who just want to claim Christianity but not really have a face to face relationship with GOD will not walk there in it. Isaiah 35:8
Progressive Christianity is a counterfeit Christianity that lets the woke leftist godless culture shape it because like Ahaz wants to please and is afraid of the "woke" King of Assyria.
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Post by alon on Mar 5, 2023 7:57:08 GMT -8
Almost 20 years have passed for a reply. It was a plague of deceit named Covid and a shepards lust for power, and a big church that has revealed what this verse means. Ahaz is the pastors who have traded the altar of GOD for a foreign altar to make it easier for people to claim Christianity. Ahaz removed the "sabbath canopy" and everything else that GOD ordained for people to come to GOD. The entrance to the altar was changed just like modern pastors have remove the cross as the entrance to GODs presence. The Bible says there is a highway called holiness and it will be for those who really want to walk with GOD and have a relationship with GOD through true Repentance at the CROSS. The Bible says that the unclean, the unrepentant and the those who just want to claim Christianity but not really have a face to face relationship with GOD will not walk there in it. Isaiah 35:8 Progressive Christianity is a counterfeit Christianity that lets the woke leftist godless culture shape it because like Ahaz wants to please and is afraid of the "woke" King of Assyria. I can see the analogy. Growing up "old school" Southern Baptist in the 50's and 60's I heard similar teachings in many sermons, and they've been proven right. However not all churches and/or pastors have gone 'woke.' Some still preach the truth (as far as they understand it). And some pastors are more willing to go outside their church doctrine when confronted with the truth in scripture. But they are few.
As Messianics, we seek the truth in scripture. Ahaz "did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord his God" (vs. 2a). He feared Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria more than God, and like your churches yielded to him quickly; even altering the Temple and services to please him. He then allowed this pagan king access to the Temple to sacrifice. I can only surmise he sacrificed to his gods and not Elohe Yisroel.We get more on this from 2 Chronicles 28:16-21 At that time King Ahaz sent to the king of Assyria for help. For the Edomites had again invaded and defeated Judah and carried away captives. And the Philistines had made raids on the cities in the Shephelah and the Negeb of Judah, and had taken Beth-shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Soco with its villages, Timnah with its villages, and Gimzo with its villages. And they settled there. For the Lord humbled Judah because of Ahaz king of Israel, for he had made Judah act sinfully and had been very unfaithful to the Lord. So Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came against him and afflicted him instead of strengthening him. For Ahaz took a portion from the house of the Lord and the house of the king and of the princes, and gave tribute to the king of Assyria, but it did not help him. It goes on to tell how he further shut up the Temple, made altars to foreign gods, and did many evil things to try and get out of the predicament he'd gotten into. Evil just sucks you in more and more once you give in to it. That is how we have gotten into this 'woke' mess in the first place. We compromised with evil, and it came back asking for more compromise. And we acquiesced, and it came back again. And again. This is an old post that has rested in the archives, which is why it took so long for another response. There are many such posts, and certainly feel free to 'resurrect' any you want.
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