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Sunrise on Temple Mount in Jerusalem; Back to Previous Devotion

July 26 - Evening

"This is what the Lord, the Lord Almighty, says:

‘Go, say to this steward, to Shebna the palace administrator:

"What are you doing here and who gave you permission to cut out a grave for yourself here, hewing your grave on the height and chiseling your resting place in the rock? Beware, the Lord is about to take firm hold of you and hurl you away, you mighty man. He will roll you up tightly like a ball and throw you into a large country.
There you will die and there the chariots you were so proud of will become a disgrace to your master’s house. I will depose you from your office, and you will be ousted from your position.

In that day I will summon my servant, Eliakim son of Hilkiah. I will clothe him with your robe and fasten your sash around him and hand your authority over to him. He will be a father to those who live in Jerusalem and to the people of Judah.
I will place on his shoulder the key to
the house of David -

what he opens no one can shut, and
what he shuts no one can open.

I will drive him like a peg into a firm place; he will become a seat of honor for the house of his father. All the glory of his family will hang on him:
its offspring and offshoots —
all its lesser vessels, from the bowls to all the jars." '

 'In that day,'
declares the Lord Almighty,
'the peg driven into the firm place will give way;
it will be sheared off and will fall, and
the load hanging on it will be cut down.'

The Lord has spoken."

- Isaiah 22:15-25

Sunset on the Sea of Galilee; Click to go to next devotion  
Shebna Gets Demoted, Then Deported    

In Isaiah 22:15-25, the prophet Isaiah rebukes Shebna for cutting a tomb for himself outside Jerusalem. Shebna, who is mentioned as one of the palace administrators for Hezekiah here in
Isaiah 37:2 will have been replaced and demoted to a secretary sometime after 712 BC, but before 701 BC.

But, here in Isaiah 22:15-25 in 712 BC the Lord tells Jeremiah to go speak these words to Shebna:

“Go, say to this steward,
    to Shebna the palace administrator:
‘What are you doing here and who gave you permission to cut out a grave for yourself here, hewing your grave on the height and chiseling your resting place in the rock?
Beware, the Lord is about to take firm hold of you
    and hurl you away, you mighty man. He will roll you up tightly like a ball
    and throw you into a large country.
There you will die and there the chariots you were so proud of will become a disgrace to your master’s house. I will depose you from your office, and you will be ousted from your position.’ ”

In the midst of national crisis Shebna, a crucial palace official of Hezekiah’s, was more concerned about his memorial and his decorated tomb that he will use after his life of luxury and palace leisure than he is about his responsibilities to the people of Judah and King Hezekiah. Shebna should instead have focused on current international and local issues. He should have consulted the Word of God and assisted Hezekiah in the formulation of wise plans for Judah’s future.

About ten years later in Isaiah 37:2-3, Shebna is one of the palace officials sent by Hezekiah to ask Isaiah for advice concerning Sennacherib's invasion of 701 BC. But, it appears Shebna demise had begun by Isaiah 37 since Eliakim seems to have Shebna’s position as being “over the house." Shebna has been demoted to “secretary” by 701 BC . Eliakim may have favored Isaiah’s policy of independence and encouraged trust in the Lord, while Shebna continued to promote international reliance on Assyria and Egypt.

The Shebna Inscription (details here and here; image here; diagram here) was found in a tomb in Silwan on the slopes of the Kidron Valley outside the City of David (Jerusalem). This is considered the possible location of Shebna's focus in 712 BC when he was King Hezekiah’s royal steward. The inscription is from the burial tomb of "--iah, the royal steward." The inscription reads:

"This is ... [the tomb of Shebna] ...iah, the royal steward. There is no silver or gold here, only ... [his bones] ... and the bones of his maidservant with him. Cursed be the man who opens this [tomb]."

It is likely that Shebna was never buried here since the Lord promised him that he was going to:

"take firm hold of you and hurl you away, you mighty man. He will roll you up tightly like a ball and throw you into a large country." - Isaiah 22:17-19

The Hebrew word root word tsnp, meaning "to wind" and "to wrap" is used to form three Hebrew words that are used in a sequence, to say: tsanop yitsnapeka tsenepa. Literally, those words are saying something like:

"winding up he will wind you a winding."

The idea is that Shebna is going to be crumpled up like a piece of paper into a wad so that the Lord can throw him like a ball of paper out of the land of Judah. The ESV translates Isaiah 22:17-19 like this:

"will roll you up tightly like a ball
    and throw you into a large country.
There you will die
    and there the chariots you were so proud of
    will become a disgrace to your master’s house."

It looks like Shebna is going to be taken into Assyria before he dies along with the chariots he both rode in and trusted in, would also be taken.

 

  Christian Quote from Church History
"The Bible is either absolute, or it's obsolete."
- Leonard Ravenhill
Something to Ponder??

Early Bishops in Jerusalem

James,
the Lord’s brother,
was killed in 63 AD

Simeon,
the son of Clopas
(who was a brother of
Jesus' father Joseph),
followed his cousin James
as bishop of Jerusalem
and bishop before, during
and after the Roman siege and destruction of
Jerusalem in 70 AD

Justus

Zacchaeus

Tobias

Benjamin

John

Matthias

Philip

Seneca

Justus II

Levi

Ephres

Joseph

Judas,
(died 148 AD)
from the family of Jesus,
the 15th bishop and last Hebrew bishop because
in 135 AD Hadrian put
down a Jewish revolt and Jews were forbidden
to enter Jerusalem

Marcus,
the first gentile
bishop of Jerusalem

Cassian

and the list continues. . .

 
Hebrew and Greek Word Study   Facts and Information

Basanizo (Gr) – distress (Eng) – the Greek word basanizo literally means
“to test by rubbing on the touchstone.”
The word basanos is “touchstone.” 
Basanizo
can mean “to question or test with torture.”
When basanizo is used in the context of a trying situation it can mean “to be harassed”
and “to be distressed” as in Matthew 14:24 and Mark 6:48.

 

Isaiah 20:1 mentions Assyrian King Sargon’s invasion of Ashdod of the Philistines
33 miles west of Jerusalem and about 2-3 miles from the Mediterranean coast.
In 712 BC Sargon responded to a revolt in Ashdod that was predicted by Amos around
750 BC in Amos 1:8. Sargon recorded the details in his capital city in a recording that says Azuri, the king of Ashdod, had refused to pay tribute to Assyria and was plotting with neighboring nations (possibly Judah and the present King Hezekiah). Archaeological evidence of Sargon’s attack is found at level VIII in Ashdod. Fragments of an Assyrian victory stela found there is credited to Sargon and his invasion of Ashdod that is accurately recorded in
Isaiah 20:1 and Amos 1:8. (Sargon Victory Stela at Ashdod HERE and HERE. Details HERE and HERE.)

     
Confession to Action   Facts and Information
I will not live for my brief time here on earth, but will consider the long term
effects of my decisions on others and on my eternity.
  "As a door turns on its hinges, so a sluggard turns on his bed."
- Proverbs 26:14
     
Read the Bible in a Year; Bible Reading Program
Read one chapter each day to read through the narrative portion (or, the story line) of the whole Bible Genesis-Acts in one year. Read the General Text of the Bible Read the Complete Text of the Bible in a Year
(morning only) 2 Kings 24:20; 25:1-26 Isaiah 42-43
 
Prayer for Today
Personal Prayer Church Prayer Item National Prayer Concerns World Prayer Concerns

Right words for
the right moment

Attitude of encouragement

Censorship

Japan
 
Photo of Jerusalem; Pictures of Israel Bible Map and Diagram
One of Herod's palace/fortresses, the Herodian.

The location of the same Herodian stones in the actual Western Wall compared to a model showing where they were in Herod's Western Wall in New Testament times before the destruction and rubble build up covered the streets and rasied the ground level.

The location of the same Herodian stones in the actual Western Wall compared to a model showing where they were in Herod's Western Wall in New Testament times before the destruction and rubble build up covered the streets and rasied the ground level. (Western Wall details here.)
(Here is another great illustration by Leen Ritmeyer here.)

One of Herod's palace/fortresses, the Herodian. (click on images for larger size)
   
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