Monday, June 17, 2019

Worship the Creator Not the Created—part 6


Worship the Creator Not the Created—part 6
In verses six and seven the explanation of “worshiping with understanding” is further explained.  “And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the LORD with their faces to the ground.  Also, Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people stood in their place.”
…”  Furthermore, Nehemiah 8:8, explain, “So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading. The Levite musicians were involved with Nehemiah’s “reading” of the Torah.  Nehemiah 8:9, “And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha [the governor], and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people…”  Knowledge of how the Levite musicians “read distinctly” has become very esoteric in the centuries that have led up to the 21st. century.  Think about what was happening in this public worship of YHVH in ancient Israel.  The Word declares that the Levites “read” distinctly.  What was the nature of this “reading”?  The word used in the AV is distinctly (parash 6567) means to separate[GW1]  mentally or to give specificity.  So, we can hypothesize reasonably that the intoning of the Torah helped the people to understand it more perfectly.



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