His name is pronounced Khazach-Ya’oh. And he had black skin, broad nose, and thick lips. The king appropriated Egyptian iconography as an insult to them. There are two ankh’s flanking the sun disk, Which essentially translates to “Long live the king.”
Egypt was the powerful ally of King Hezekiah against onslaughts from Mesopotamia (Assyria, Babylon). Like today, Israel and/or Judea showed affinity to the United States of the ancient world (Egypt or Mitzraim) by adopting Egyptian iconography.
I can understand how icons/symbols change over time. Looking at recent history, we can see that the peace sign of the 1960s use to mean V for Victory. We can also see how the homosexual community has adopted the rainbow as a symbol of multi-gender-ism and not the covenant symbol God has given us that the world will not be destroy by water again.
It's kinda weird equating Yahweh with the Sun, at this point in history he would have only been a war god while Shapash was the son god. Also it's important to note that Egypt had a cultural influence in Canaan, even ruling over it during the late bronze age. So I'm not surprise that the Canaanites/Israelites adopted Egyptian symbols for their own administrative use.
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thank you once again. please help me understand this a little bit more. i understand everything you said in the video and agree. but why choose egyptian symbol and not a symbol from Judah? did judah not have any symbols to replace those of foreign nations? im lost a little bit.
Hey Jose, Thanks for your comment and great question. I think this bulla really gets us to appreciate how much other nations influenced Israel. They borrowed their symbols and images as their audience knew of them.
Its not strange to think ppl can put the Sun is some divine position, but they also always had a person connected to worship of sun or moon, from what i have read in mythology and Jewish theology they had alot of interactions with God, so limiting him to just a worship or a star seems strange to me.
The sun disk god of Egypt is also the Aten. Akhenaten (the heretic pharoah) abandoned the normal god worship of Egypt to worship the 'One True God' or the Aten. The Aten is sometimes portrayed as a sun disk with rays of light showering down. Maybe between 1350BC and 700BC the portrayal of the Aten changed and Hezekiah was really worshiping the Egyptian 'One True God' or Yahweh..... Egyptian and Hebrew history is certainly fascinating!
As always, great video, unfortunately, all I can think of concerning this issue is a situation where Baptists and fundamentalists accuse the Roman Catholics and Orthodoxs as incorporating paganism into the church (most of which I find not convincing) due to the halo iconography or picturing angels with wings, etc. Yet here, a Godly king, uses pagan symbols and transforms their usage. Which leads me to ask (anyone can answer): How is that wrong (if so, why)?
Hezekiah was known to be a reformer, but I am still unconvinced that he was appropriating these symbols knowing what they stood for. Historically, there had been a great amount of appropriation, such as The birth God's Son (Christmas) and the sun dying and being reborn (the winter solstice). However, with Israel's rampant paganism, this could equally be evidence of the merging of Israelites and pagan beliefs, especially depending on which point of Hezekiah's rule these markers were used.
@@zacace These symbols were probably used by Hezekiah's father, his grandfather, his great-grandfather, on and on, going all the was back to Israel's first kings. Speaking of which, it was probably used by(northern kingdom) Israel's kings as well, and was probably standard fare in the whole near east.
The art of that time can not be taken a true depiction of things before the life of the painter. In the past few years there have been a lot of people changing back (?) some of these things. Lent is from Anglo-Saxon for Spring and many of pictures associated with Easter (That may be from a Germanic word to get up or arise) are things associated with Spring like eggs, chicks, young rabbits. What ever these things mean to you is what they mean. because some on attaches evil to them has an evil mind and a disritive personality. I have a saying: Jesus was not born on Christmas, was not executed an a Friday or on a hill but none of this matters. What is important is that he died for my sins and rose from grave.
They are feathers which are the end of the garments showing Who He is! A King. Go look at the ancient Hebrew and the American Indians and read about the ends of the garments and study wings.
I don't totally agree with the Biblical Archaeology Society's stance on Hezekiah's usage of Egyptian symbols upon his bulla seals just as a power nod. They certainly know the icon's values, theres more to this usage just the evidence of why may have not been found yet.
✨I believe the Sun is the symbol of God because my God warned me in a dream/vision: Secrets under the Sun. It means nothing can be hidden from God. He knows every mans heart.✨🙏🌎☁🌈☀☁💖
U forget…. The docs comes from Zoroastrianism.. mithru? More like Mitra. Ahuramazda is the winged disc. Egypt got it from Mitanni. The Israelites were sinning by burning sacrifice… “one does not impurify fire bull buring things in it. But it’s not found in Egypt first.
Its not the Israelites that worshiped the sun. They worshiped El Saturn. The judeans, who were Elamites or Gutians venerated Nergal Mars and the sun. They were monotheistic and the Israelites were “pagans” who venerated El and his counsel the Elohim, a myriad of gods and spirits. The arabic name Isra means night time journey.
And Malachi 3 20 in the TANACH is saying that when Messiah comes the Sun will be unsheathed and the Ray's will be healing to the righteous people. See Rashi commentary. It's well known in Judaism that Ein od milvado....there is no one but G-d as the creator of all.
Borrowed it excuse me ? You know that my people are older than egyptians Assyrians Babylonians akkadians sumerians we are all the same thing don't divide us we don't even call ourselves non of these names we simply known as ASHURAYE (assyrians) you people gave us these names
Complete ignorance to say ancient Israel worshipped the Sun. The Bible says in Genesis that G-d created the Sun and Moon and all galaxies (stars) on the 3rd day. Why on earth would the Jewish nation that received the Torah from G-d worship the Sun? And Chizkiah Hamelech (king Hezekaia) was a Righteous King that came to the scene many years after King David ( Dovid Hamelech)
Your words are illogical! Because the icons represent paganism, and he assumes he knows their meaning because Egypt is next to him! Your words are unconvincing and illogical. The Jews practice ancient beliefs and actually consider the sun to be a source and a god Even the star in their logo confirms this It seems that they distorted their religion later!
His name is pronounced Khazach-Ya’oh. And he had black skin, broad nose, and thick lips. The king appropriated Egyptian iconography as an insult to them. There are two ankh’s flanking the sun disk, Which essentially translates to “Long live the king.”
I seriously doubt he would import merely power symbols without himself and/or his priesthood being keenly aware of any religious implications.
Interesting!! It is possible
Totally Agree
This is great.
The Archaeology of King Hezekiah's Bullas was always a ystery to me.
Thank You for clarifying.
Thank You,
Natasha
Mitra is the midday sun. The sun then enters the world of the sea/Mediterranean sea then enters the underworld as Varuna/oziri
Egypt was the powerful ally of King Hezekiah against onslaughts from Mesopotamia (Assyria, Babylon). Like today, Israel and/or Judea showed affinity to the United States of the ancient world (Egypt or Mitzraim) by adopting Egyptian iconography.
I can understand how icons/symbols change over time. Looking at recent history, we can see that the peace sign of the 1960s use to mean V for Victory. We can also see how the homosexual community has adopted the rainbow as a symbol of multi-gender-ism and not the covenant symbol God has given us that the world will not be destroy by water again.
It's kinda weird equating Yahweh with the Sun, at this point in history he would have only been a war god while Shapash was the son god. Also it's important to note that Egypt had a cultural influence in Canaan, even ruling over it during the late bronze age. So I'm not surprise that the Canaanites/Israelites adopted Egyptian symbols for their own administrative use.
La Khazack-Yaoh Ahaz Malach yahar
The question is good. Keep searching for the answer.
"Yahweh and the Sun" goes for almost $200 at Amazon but Logos has it for a little less than $30. Great Bargain! Thanks to a comment at the Amazon site by a customer I found this out.
Do you ever discuss Immanuel as the Jesus and the term virgin?
thank you once again. please help me understand this a little bit more. i understand everything you said in the video and agree. but why choose egyptian symbol and not a symbol from Judah? did judah not have any symbols to replace those of foreign nations? im lost a little bit.
Hey Jose,
Thanks for your comment and great question.
I think this bulla really gets us to appreciate how much other nations influenced Israel. They borrowed their symbols and images as their audience knew of them.
Its not strange to think ppl can put the Sun is some divine position, but they also always had a person connected to worship of sun or moon, from what i have read in mythology and Jewish theology they had alot of interactions with God, so limiting him to just a worship or a star seems strange to me.
The sun disk god of Egypt is also the Aten. Akhenaten (the heretic pharoah) abandoned the normal god worship of Egypt to worship the 'One True God' or the Aten. The Aten is sometimes portrayed as a sun disk with rays of light showering down. Maybe between 1350BC and 700BC the portrayal of the Aten changed and Hezekiah was really worshiping the Egyptian 'One True God' or Yahweh..... Egyptian and Hebrew history is certainly fascinating!
As always, great video, unfortunately, all I can think of concerning this issue is a situation where Baptists and fundamentalists accuse the Roman Catholics and Orthodoxs as incorporating paganism into the church (most of which I find not convincing) due to the halo iconography or picturing angels with wings, etc. Yet here, a Godly king, uses pagan symbols and transforms their usage. Which leads me to ask (anyone can answer): How is that wrong (if so, why)?
Hezekiah was known to be a reformer, but I am still unconvinced that he was appropriating these symbols knowing what they stood for. Historically, there had been a great amount of appropriation, such as The birth God's Son (Christmas) and the sun dying and being reborn (the winter solstice). However, with Israel's rampant paganism, this could equally be evidence of the merging of Israelites and pagan beliefs, especially depending on which point of Hezekiah's rule these markers were used.
@@zacace These symbols were probably used by Hezekiah's father, his grandfather, his great-grandfather, on and on, going all the was back to Israel's first kings. Speaking of which, it was probably used by(northern kingdom) Israel's kings as well, and was probably standard fare in the whole near east.
The art of that time can not be taken a true depiction of things before the life of the painter. In the past few years there have been a lot of people changing back (?) some of these things. Lent is from Anglo-Saxon for Spring and many of pictures associated with Easter (That may be from a Germanic word to get up or arise) are things associated with Spring like eggs, chicks, young rabbits. What ever these things mean to you is what they mean. because some on attaches evil to them has an evil mind and a disritive personality. I have a saying: Jesus was not born on Christmas, was not executed an a Friday or on a hill but none of this matters. What is important is that he died for my sins and rose from grave.
Fascinating!
Thanks Randall
Who is emmanuel
awesome
They are feathers which are the end of the garments showing Who He is!
A King.
Go look at the ancient Hebrew and the American Indians and read about the ends of the garments and study wings.
I don't totally agree with the Biblical Archaeology Society's stance on Hezekiah's usage of Egyptian symbols upon his bulla seals just as a power nod. They certainly know the icon's values, theres more to this usage just the evidence of why may have not been found yet.
Good point Anthony. Historians can only speculate, the real reason for the usage is most likely lost to time.
✨I believe the Sun is the symbol of God because my God warned me in a dream/vision: Secrets under the Sun. It means nothing can be hidden from God. He knows every mans heart.✨🙏🌎☁🌈☀☁💖
U forget….
The docs comes from Zoroastrianism..
mithru? More like Mitra. Ahuramazda is the winged disc. Egypt got it from Mitanni. The Israelites were sinning by burning sacrifice… “one does not impurify fire bull buring things in it.
But it’s not found in Egypt first.
Its not the Israelites that worshiped the sun. They worshiped El Saturn. The judeans, who were Elamites or Gutians venerated Nergal Mars and the sun. They were monotheistic and the Israelites were “pagans” who venerated El and his counsel the Elohim, a myriad of gods and spirits.
The arabic name Isra means night time journey.
For the algorithm
And Malachi 3 20 in the TANACH is saying that when Messiah comes the Sun will be unsheathed and the Ray's will be healing to the righteous people. See Rashi commentary. It's well known in Judaism that Ein od milvado....there is no one but G-d as the creator of all.
Borrowed it excuse me ? You know that my people are older than egyptians
Assyrians Babylonians akkadians sumerians we are all the same thing don't divide us we don't even call ourselves non of these names we simply known as ASHURAYE (assyrians) you people gave us these names
Extravagant Lie here.
Go research ancient Hebrew and His ancient thinking. This is not Egyptian.
Complete ignorance to say ancient Israel worshipped the Sun. The Bible says in Genesis that G-d created the Sun and Moon and all galaxies (stars) on the 3rd day. Why on earth would the Jewish nation that received the Torah from G-d worship the Sun? And Chizkiah Hamelech (king Hezekaia) was a Righteous King that came to the scene many years after King David ( Dovid Hamelech)
Your words are illogical!
Because the icons represent paganism, and he assumes he knows their meaning because Egypt is next to him!
Your words are unconvincing and illogical. The Jews practice ancient beliefs and actually consider the sun to be a source and a god
Even the star in their logo confirms this
It seems that they distorted their religion later!