King Josiah
When King Josiah became king of Judah at eight years old[1] He had to rely on others for guidance and support.
It is said that King Josiah repaired the Temple with the labor of sabbalim ("corvée workers").
In verse 13 of 2 Chronicles 34 we see the word cabbal סֹבֶל[2] suggesting that there were some, bearers of burdens, that were apart of a corvee.[3] It does appears King Josiah repaired the Temple with some of the labor of sabbalim ("corvée workers"). It is also clear that many of the workmen, artificers, and builders in context of verse 10 were actually paid for their labor[4] with money they freely received from Hilkiah the high priest.[5]
We are also told he followed the way of David and by the time he was 16 he "purged" Judea from groves and images.[6]
This resulted in the brake down of the altars of Baalim[7].
The translation tells us that they burnt the bones of their priests.[8] And did the same in other cities.[9]
After all this apparent violent destruction and chaos he returned to Jerusalem.[10]
Some believe the ruthless nature of King Josiah's actions because of the directives in Exodus 34[11] In this command to "destroy their altars" the word destroy is the same word we see in Hebrew phrase "brake down the altars"[7]
When he was 18 after he "purged the land, and the house" he det about to strengthen ((חָזַק)ChetZyanKuf)[12] the house of the LORD.[13]
Nehemiah 4:10 And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens <05449> is decayed, and [there is] much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.
- ↑ 2 Chronicles 34:1 Josiah [was] eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years.
- ↑ 05449 סַבָּל cabbal SamechBeitLamed [sab-bawl’] from 05445; n m; [BDB-688a] [{See TWOT on 1458 @@ "1458b" }] AV-bearer of burden 3, … bear burden 1, burden 1; 5
- 1) burden-bearer
- Same as 05445, 05446, 05447, 05448, 05449 סָבַל cabal with 05450 סְבָלָה cëbalah meaning forced or compulsory service which we see in Exodus 1:11; Exodus 2:11; Exodus 5:4,5; Exodus 6:6, 7.
- ס Samech The Eternal Cycle The circular symbolizes the fundamental truth described in the mystery of the ten statements [ prop... Support, turn] (Numeric value: 60)
- ב Beit Purpose: God's Dwelling Place Below - a house or God's house here. [household, in, into] (Numeric value: 2)
- ל Lamed means Aspiration of the Heart or to learn or even direct like a shepherd. It has to do with what the Hand produces, [hand is די YodDalet] or directs with staff, whip... like the tongue may direct. (Numeric value: 30)
- ↑ 2 Chronicles 34: 13 "Also [they were] over the bearers of burdens05449, and [were] overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of the Levites [there were] scribes, and officers, and porters."
- ↑ 2 Chronicles 34: 10 And they put [it] in the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of the LORD, and they gave it to the workmen that wrought in the house of the LORD, to repair and amend the house: 11 Even to the artificers and builders gave they [it], to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to floor the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed. 12 And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them [were] Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set [it] forward; and [other of] the Levites, all that could skill of instruments of musick."
- ↑ 2 Chronicles 34:9 "And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin; and they returned to Jerusalem."
- ↑ 2 Chronicles 34:3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 2 Chronicles 34:4 "And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that [were] on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust [of them], and strowed [it] upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.
- ↑ 2 Chronicles 34:5 And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.
- ↑ 2 Chronicles 34:6 And [so did he] in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about.
- ↑ 2 Chronicles 34:7 And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.
- ↑ Exodus 34:13 But ye shall destroy <05422> their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
- ↑ 02388 ^קזח^ chazaq \@khaw-zak’\@ a primitive root ChetZayinKuf; v; {See TWOT on 636} AV-strong 48, repair 47, hold 37, strengthened 28, strengthen 14, harden 13, prevail 10, encourage 9, take 9, courage 8, caught 5, stronger 5, hold 5, misc 52; 290
- 1) to strengthen, prevail, harden, be strong, become strong, be courageous, be firm, grow firm, be resolute, be sore
- 1a) (Qal)
- 1a1) to be strong, grow strong
- 1a1a) to prevail, prevail upon
- 1a1b) to be firm, be caught fast, be secure
- 1a1c) to press, be urgent
- 1a1d) to grow stout, grow rigid, grow hard (bad sense)
- 1a1e) to be severe, be grievous
- 1a2) to strengthen
- 1a1) to be strong, grow strong
- 1b) (Piel)
- 1b1) to make strong
- 1b2) to restore to strength, give strength
- 1b3) to strengthen, sustain, encourage
- 1b4) to make strong, make bold, encourage
- 1b5) to make firm
- 1b6) to make rigid, make hard
- 1c) (Hiphil)
- 1c1) to make strong, strengthen
- 1c2) to make firm
- 1c3) to display strength
- 1c4) to make severe
- 1c5) to support
- 1c6) to repair
- 1c7) to prevail, prevail upon
- 1c8) to have or take or keep hold of, retain, hold up, sustain, support
- 1c9) to hold, contain
- 1d) (Hithpael)
- 1d1) to strengthen oneself
- 1d2) to put forth strength, use one’s strength
- 1d3) to withstand
- 1d4) to hold strongly with
- 1a) (Qal)
- ק Kuf or Kof Omnipresence - Redemption of Fallen Sparks The paradoxical union Reish and a Zayin holiness or separateness omnipresence of God [Cord and needle 𐤒 ... back of head neck... the last or least] (Numeric value: 100)
- זָ ז Zayin The "Crowned" head. The Service and Valor, cut and bread, war and nourish. [weapon.... Cut, to cut off, manacle] (Numeric value: 7)
- ח Chet The Life Force - Dynamic nature of - cause and effect - give life and live.[fence, thread, hedge, chamber...cycle] (Numeric value: 8)
- Three words used to describe the hardened 03515 kebed, 07185 qashah, 02388 chazaq heart of the Pharaoh by Moses.
- 1) to strengthen, prevail, harden, be strong, become strong, be courageous, be firm, grow firm, be resolute, be sore
- ↑ 2 Chronicles 34:8 ¶ Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his God.