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Jeremias 41

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1 Men i den syvende måned kom Ismael, sønn av Netanja, Elisamas sønn, en mann av kongelig byrd, en av kongens stormenn, og ti menn med ham til Gedalja, Akikams sønn, i Mispa, og de holdt måltid sammen der i Mispa.

2 Da stod Ismael, Netanjas sønn, op, og de ti menn som var med ham, og de slo Gedalja, sønn av Akikam, Safans sønn, ihjel med sverd, og han drepte ham som Babels konge hadde satt til å styre landet.

3 Også alle de jøder som var hos Gedalja i Mispa, og de kaldeere som fantes der, krigsmennene, slo Ismael ihjel.

4 Den annen dag efterat han hadde drept Gedalja, og før ennu nogen visste det,

5 kom det menn fra Sikem, fra Silo og Samaria, åtti menn med avraket skjegg og sønderrevne klær og med flenger i kjøttet*, og de hadde med sig matoffer og virak for å bære det til Herrens hus. / {* JE 16, 6.}

6 Og Ismael, Netanjas sønn, gikk dem i møte fra Mispa, og han gikk og gråt; og da han traff dem, sa han til dem: Kom med til Gedalja, Akikams sønn!

7 Og da de kom inn i byen, drepte Ismael, Netanjas sønn, dem og kastet dem ned i brønnen*, han og de menn som var med ham. / {* JE 41, 9.}

8 Men blandt dem var det ti menn som sa til Ismael: Drep oss ikke! For vi har skjulte forråd ute på marken, hvete og bygg og olje og honning. Da lot han dem være og drepte dem ikke sammen med deres brødre.

9 Og brønnen hvor Ismael kastet likene av alle de døde menn som han hadde slått ihjel foruten Gedalja, var den samme som kong Asa hadde gjort for Israels konge Baesas skyld; den fylte Ismael, Netanjas sønn, med drepte menn.

10 Og Ismael bortførte som fanger hele resten av folket i Mispa, kongens døtre og alt folket som var blitt tilbake i Mispa, og som høvdingen over livvakten Nebusaradan hadde overgitt til Gedaljas, Akikams sønns opsyn; dem bortførte Ismael, Netanjas sønn, som fanger, og han gikk avsted for å dra over til Ammons barn.

11 Men da Johanan, Kareahs sønn, og alle hærførerne som var med ham, hørte om alt det onde som Ismael, Netanjas sønn, hadde gjort,

12 da tok de alle sine menn og gikk avsted for å stride mot Ismael, Netanjas sønn, og de fant ham ved det store vann* i Gibeon. / {* 2SA 2, 13.}

13 Og da alt folket som var med Ismael, så Johanan, Kareahs sønn, og alle hærførerne som var med ham, blev de glade.

14 Og alt folket som Ismael hadde bortført som fanger fra Mispa, vendte om og gikk tilbake til Johanan, Kareahs sønn.

15 Men Ismael, Netanjas sønn, slapp unda fra Johanan med åtte menn, og han drog bort til Ammons barn.

16 Da tok Johanan, Kareahs sønn, og alle hærførerne som var med ham, hele resten av folket, dem fra Mispa som han hadde vunnet tilbake fra Ismael, Netanjas sønn, efterat Ismael hadde slått Gedalja, Akikams sønn, ihjel, både krigsmenn og kvinner og små barn og hoffmenn, som han hadde ført tilbake fra Gibeon.

17 Og de drog avsted og stanset i Kimhams herberge ved Betlehem for å dra videre og komme til Egypten

18 for kaldeernes skyld; for de var redde for dem, fordi Ismael, Netanjas sønn, hadde drept Gedalja, Akikams sønn, som Babels konge hadde satt til å styre landet.

   

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Meeting of three kings in Potsdam and Charlottenburg, 1709, by Samuel Theodor Gericke

In Genesis 14:1, kings signify apparent goods and truths having the upper hand. In the next verse, they stand for the dominant evils and falsities against which the Lord fought as he passed He grew up on Earth.

In Genesis 14:3, we see that these evils and falsities were unclean; and in Genesis 14:4, that they burst forth later. (Arcana Coelestia 1661-1664).

In Genesis 14:14-15, this signifies that the Lord gained victory over them the evils represented earlier in the chapter. (Arcana Coelestia 1711-1715)

In Isaiah 33:17, a king signifies seeing genuine truth. (Apocalypse Explained 304[31])

In Revelation 9:11, a king signifies one who is in truth from an affection for what is good, and abstractly that truth itself -- here, in the opposite sense. (Apocalypse Revealed 440)

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20. And makes us kings and priests. (1:6) This symbolically means, who grants those who are born from Him, that is, who are reborn or regenerated, to be governed by wisdom from Divine truths, and by love from Divine goods.

People know that in the Word the Lord is called a king and also a priest. He is called a king owing to His Divine wisdom, and a priest owing to His Divine love. People who are governed by wisdom from the Lord are consequently called children of the king, and also kings, while people who are governed by love from Him are called ministers and priests. For the wisdom and the love in them do not originate from them, and so are not theirs but the Lord's. It is these people who are therefore meant in the Word by kings and priests. Not that they are kings and priests, but that they have the Lord in them, and He causes them to be termed such.

Such people are called also children born of Him, children of the kingdom, children of the Father, and heirs - children born of Him in John 1:12-13ff.), children of the kingdom in Matthew 8:12; 13:38, children of their Father in heaven in Matthew 5:45, and heirs in Psalms 127:3, 1 Samuel 2:8, Matthew 25:34. And being heirs, children of the kingdom, and children born of the Lord as their Father, they are therefore called kings and priests. Moreover, in Revelation 3:21 it is also said that they will sit with the Lord on His throne.

[2] The whole of heaven has been divided into two kingdoms - the spiritual kingdom and the celestial kingdom. The spiritual kingdom is what is called the Lord's kingship, and because all who are in it are governed by wisdom founded on truths, therefore it is they who are meant by the kings that the Lord will make those people who are governed by wisdom from Him. The celestial kingdom, on the other hand, is what is called the Lord's priesthood, and because all who are in it are governed by love arising from goodness, therefore it is they who are meant by the priests that the Lord will make those people who are governed by love from Him. The Lord's church on earth is likewise divided into two kingdoms. Regarding these two kingdoms, see nos. 24, 226 in the book Heaven and Hell, published in London, 1758.

[3] Someone who does not know the spiritual meaning of kings and priests may be deluded in regard to many things said in the prophets and in the book of Revelation about them. For example, in regard to these statements in the prophets:

The sons of foreigners shall build up your walls, and their kings shall minister to you... You shall suck the milk of gentiles, even the breasts of kings you shall suck, that you may know that I, Jehovah, am your Savior and your Redeemer... (Isaiah 60:10, 16)

Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their princesses your wet nurses. (Isaiah 49:23)

Also elsewhere, as in Genesis 49:20; Psalms 2:10; Isaiah 14:9; 24:21; 52:15; Jeremiah 2:26; 4:9; 49:3; Lamentations 2:6, 9; Ezekiel 7:26-27; Hosea 3:4; Zephaniah 1:8. Kings there do not mean kings, but people who are governed by Divine truths from the Lord, and abstractly, Divine truths themselves, from which comes wisdom.

"The king of the south" and "the king of the north" who waged war with each other in Daniel 11 do not mean kings either, but the king of the south means people who are governed by truths, and the king of the north people who are caught up in falsities.

[4] Likewise in the book of Revelation, which many times mentions kings, as in the following passages:

The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, so that the way of the kings from the rising of the sun might be prepared. (Revelation 16:12)

(With) the great harlot who sits on many waters... the kings of the earth committed whoredom... (Revelation 17:1-2)

...of the wine of the wrath of (Babylon's) whoredom all the nations have drunk, and the kings of the earth have committed whoredom with her... (Revelation 18:3)

And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war with Him who sat on the (white) horse... (Revelation 19:19)

And the nations that are saved shall walk in His light, and the kings of the earth shall bring their glory and honor into (the New Jerusalem). (Revelation 21:24)

Elsewhere also, as in Revelation 16:14; 17:9-14; 18:9-10. The kings there means people who are governed by truths, and in an opposite sense, people caught up in falsities, and abstractly, truths or falsities themselves. The whoredom of Babylon with the kings of the earth means the falsification of the truth of the church. Obviously Babylon, or the woman who sat on the scarlet beast, did not commit whoredom with kings, but rather falsified truths of the Word.

[5] It is apparent from this that the Lord's going to make people who are wise from Him kings does not mean that they will be kings, but that they will be wise. The reality of this is also something that enlightened reason sees.

Likewise in the following:

You have made us kings and priests to our God, that we may reign on the earth. (Revelation 5:10)

That by king the Lord meant truth is apparent from His words to Pilate:

Pilate... said to Him, "Are You a king then?"

Jesus answered, "As you have said, because I am a king. For this I was born, and for this I have come into the world, to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice."

Pilate said to Him, "What is truth?" (John 18:27, 38)

To bear witness to the truth is to be Himself the embodiment of truth. And because He called Himself a king by virtue of it, Pilate said, "What is truth?" - which is to say, "Is truth a king?

As for priests, we will see in later explanations that they symbolize people who are governed by the goodness of love, and abstractly, goods of love themselves.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.