Instrumental music played only during the burnt offering which God had not commanded.2 Chronicles 29
2Chr. 29:1 Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old,
and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem.
And his mother’s name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.
2Chr. 29:2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done.
2Chr. 29:3 He in the first year of his reign, in the first month,
opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.
2Chr. 29:4 And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the east street,
We should note that Jacob had warned that we should not attend the assemblies of the Levi Tribe. After the fall from Grace at Mount Sinai, God turned them over to worship the starry host and restricted it to the Levites. At the same time the godly people attended the synagogue or church in the wilderness and could never come near any of the dedicated things.
Acts 7:37 This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel,THE HOST OF HEAVEN
A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren,
like unto me; him shall ye hear.
Acts 7:38 This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness
with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina,
and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
Acts 7:39 To whom our fathers would not obey,
but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,
Acts 7:40 Saying unto Aaron,
Make us gods to go before us [back to Egypt]:
for as for this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
Acts 7:41 And they made a calf in those days,
and offered sacrifice unto the idol,
and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
Acts 7:42 Then God turned,"The triumphal hymn of Moses had unquestionably a religious character about it; but the employment of music in religious services, though idolatrous, is more distinctly marked in the festivities which attended the erection of the golden calf." (Smith's Bible Dictionary, Music, p. 589).
This "rising up to play" involved eating, drinking, nakedness and musical worship. The goddess, Hathor, is the best candidate for the Mother Goddess of the Mount Sinai idolatry. Here priestessess or prophetesses were highly trained with musical instruments, cultic songs and be able to join in the religious dance.
"Music and drugs were co-consiprators in religious ecstasy. They may have used some product of the sycamore fig which both intoxicated and induced an altered state of consciousness. The ergo of barley was well known.
"Women and girls from the different ranks of society were proud to enter the service of the gods as singers and musicians. The understanding of this service was universal: these singers constituted the 'harem of the gods'." (End of Quasten Click to see Music and the Feminine connection)What you can never learn while you are a clapping and a sanging!
and gave them up [g3860 cast out, put in prison]
to worship the host of heaven;
Host of Heaven: The word host as used in Genesis 2:1, is defined by Strong's Concordance (6635) as "a mass of persons or things especially organized for war, an army." Often it refers to human armies. Two other words are translated "host(s)," and used similarly, but 6635 is usually used to refer to the heavenly host. This page is posted to show that in Old Testament scripture, heavenly host refers specifically to angelic beings (just as in Luke 2:13's "heavenly host praising God" at Christ's birth). It does not generally refer to celestial bodies, or to the cosmos in general.You are missing the pull tab on your zipper (in back probably) if you hallucinate that ANY of the curse of the sacrificial system under kings who REPLACED God is your PATTERNISM for worship when the Church of Christ still strives to be a school of the Bible. This was a COVENANT WITH DEATH which the Jews thought they could live with instead of the "Lord" connected with Abraham:
We are told not to worship the heavenly host, and God is declared "The Lord of Hosts" over 200 times in the Bible. Unfortunately, modern theology almost always interprets the phrase "heavenly host" or "host of heaven" to mean the stars, planets, etc (usu "array" or "starry hosts," in NIV), unless the context makes it absolutely unavoidable to do so.
In Genesis 1:15-17, a completely different Hebrew word (kowkab - Strong's 3552) is used to refer to literal stars. There is simply no need to confuse these terms, since there is a perfectly good Hebrew word for stars, used over 25 times in the Old Testament, and even a Hebrew word for "constellations" used in Isaiah 13:10. (Go to the online Blue Letter Bible and enter "stars" and "constellations.")
Skia
2. reflection, image (in a bowl of oil), Sch.Il.17.755.
3. shade of one dead, phantom, Od.10.495, A.Th.992,
of worthless things, that phantom at Delphi, of the Amphictyonic council, D.5.25; hai tou dikaiou s. mere shadows of .
4. evil spirit, Hippiatr.130, PMasp.188.5
also, of one worn to a shadow, A.Eu.302;2Chr. 29:5 And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites,"We even have a mention at a later date of a similar custom in connection with the cult in Jerusalem, where certain Levites, called me'oreim, 'AROUSERS,' sang (every morning?) this verse from "Ps 44:23: "Awake, O Lord! Why do you sleep? Rouse yourself! Do not reject us forever." The Talmud tells us that John Hyrcanus suppressed the practice because it recalled too readily a pagan custom." (Roland de Vaux, p. 247).
sanctify now yourselves,
and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers,
and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.
2Chr. 29:6 For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD our God,
and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned their backs.
While not commanded, the sacrificial system was quarantined to one place and behind city walls.
2Chr. 29:7 Also they have shut up the doors of the porch,
and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings
in the holy place unto the God of Israel.
2Chr. 29:8 Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem,
and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.
2Chr. 29:9 For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword,
and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
2Chr. 29:10 Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel,
that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.
2Chr. 29:11 My sons, be not now negligent: for the LORD hath chosen you to stand before him,
to serve him, and that ye should minister unto him, and burn incense.
2Chr. 29:12 Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites: and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehalelel: and of the Gershonites; Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah:
2Chr. 29:13 And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel: and of the sons of Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah:
2Chr. 29:14 And of the sons of Heman; Jehiel, and Shimei: and of the sons of Jeduthun; Shemaiah, and Uzziel.
You will notice that the commandment of the king was considered to be by the words of the Lord in all monarchies: little has changed. However, Hezekiah took the initiative to do this and the Lord did not tell him to do it. If God doesn't stop you then you can assume that he agrees! No.
2Chr. 29:15 And they gathered their brethren,
and sanctified themselves, and came,
according to the commandment of the king,
by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD.
No Levite could come near any holy thing without getting killed. No citizen could come near any holy thing. If a Levite went into the closed spaces he was to be executed. Therefore, we know that they only mand NOISE outside and away from any holy place.
2Chr. 29:16 And the priests went
into the inner part of the house of the LORD,
to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the LORD
into the court of the house of the LORD.
And the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad into the brook Kidron.
2Chr. 29:17 Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify,
and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the LORD:
so they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days;
and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.
2Chr. 29:18 Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said,
We have cleansed all the house of the LORD,
and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels thereof,
and the shewbread table, with all the vessels thereof.
2Chr. 29:19 Moreover all the vessels,
which king Ahaz in his reign did cast away in his transgression,
have we prepared and sanctified,
and, behold, they are before the altar of the LORD.
Notice that in none of the animal sacrifices was the people's congregation involved: they must always be outside of the gates. On the Sabbath they would be attending church which began in the wilderness.
2Chr. 29:20 Then Hezekiah the king rose early,
and gathered the rulers of the city, and went up to the house of the LORD.
2Chr. 29:21 And they brought
seven bullocks,
and seven rams,
and seven lambs,
and seven he goats,
for a SIN OFFERING for the kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for Judah.2Chr. 29:22 So they killed the bullocks,
And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of the LORD.
and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar:
likewise, when they had killed the rams,
they sprinkled the blood upon the altar:
they killed also the lambs,
and they sprinkled the blood upon the altar.
A civil war which resulted from the slavery building the temple God had not commanded as a house, meant that the nation of Israel would not "fellowship" the tiny nation of Judah consisting mostly of Jerusalem.
The Warriors instruments did not sound for the specified atonement.
THEREFORE THE SIN OFFERING OF THE GOATS WAS FOR THE ABSENT ISRAELITES.
2Chr. 29:23 And they brought forth the he goats
for the sin offering before the king and the congregation;
and they laid their hands upon them:
2Chr. 29:24 And the priests killed them,
and they made reconciliation with their blood upon the altar,
to make an atonement for all Israel:
for the king commanded that the BURNT offering and the sin offering
should be made for all Israel.
The "kings were set over us" and nationally was DIVIDED primarily over the musical sacrificed defined by Amos and Isaiah. After Solomon the Levites were used to sing FORCED LABOR or working music.
The nation of Israel had been lost beyond redemption. Thereforee, the MARK of the wild noise never called music has a two-fold identifying mark.
FIRST: It was a political movement to get those who had begun civil war back to save llthe king, kingdom and the not-commanded temple. This would be futile.
Albert Barnes: All Israel—Hezekiah aimed at reuniting once more the whole people of Israel, if not into a single state, yet, at any rate, into a single religious communion. The northern kingdom was in a condition approaching to anarchy. The end was evidently approaching. Hoshea, the king contemporary with Hezekiah 2 Kings 18:1 , ruled, not as an independent monarch, but as an Assyrian feudatory 2 Kings 17:3 . Under these circumstances Hezekiah designed to invite the revolted tribes to return, if not to their old temporal, at least to their old spiritual, allegiance 2 Chr. 30:5-10 . In order, therefore, to prepare the way for this return, he included "all Israel" in the expiatory sacrifice, by which he prefaced his restoration of the old worship.SECOND: The military instruments and the burnt offering was an attempt to REDEEM those who has sinned beyond redemption. The NOISES would be a confession of mortal sins. This would, in our day, deny the power of the blood of Jesus Christ shed OUTSIDE of the quarantined city.
In our own day this plague stopping ritual has been used as a pattern saying that "God commanded instrumental praise and we should not be disobedient."
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Of course, most of the people of Israel just made fun of HEZEKIAH'S attempt at a UNITY MEETING with music.
INSTRUMENTS ONLY DURING THE HOLOCAUST OR BURNT OFFERINGS TO DO WHAT GOD HAD ALREADY DONE.
The ONLY spiritual covenant was made by Christ in spirit to Abraham he later commanded: He provides.
Gen. 22:7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?The Israelites abandoned to worship the starry host, in all of their animal sacrifices, substituted for human sacrifice. This was usually in the form of young children. The word music from mystery means "to silence the voice of the victim." They made Jesus dumb before the slaughter.
Gen. 22:8 And Abraham said,
My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering:
so they went both of them together.
Gen. 22:13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked,
and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns:
and Abraham went and took the ram,
and offered him up for a burnt offering
in the stead of his son.
When God gave Israel the ten original commandments and The Book of the Covenant, burnt offerings were like all of the commandments, conditional: if yo do it this is the way you shall do it.
BUT, WAIT!This synagogue or Church of Christ was empowered after Christ put down the sacrificial system as something evil: a covenant with death.
After the people rose up to play in musical idolatry, the Law of Moses was given to govern a nation turned over to worship the starry host. Therefore, Jeremiah by the Spirit of Christ
Jer. 7:21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;God had not commanded burnt offerings or sacrifices. Previously this had been a voluntary custom of individuals but had no Biblical foundation.
Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
Jer. 7:22 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them
in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt,
concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
Jer. 7:23 But this thing commanded I them, saying,
Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people:
and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
Jer. 7:24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear,
but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart,
and went backward, and not forward.
God had not commanded the Levites to make war and loud exorcism noises during these sacrifices.
This use of warrior musicians was an aborted attempt at a "unity meeting" with a nation which had long ago fallen back into the musical idolatry which requested that God "turn them over to worship the starry host."
Therefore, to impose this warrior music as a way to force a union as a purely political move by Hezekiah on a church is the ultimate repudiation of Grace and abandonment to the Sabazianism or star and serpent worship.
Christ has ordained the Qahal, synagogue or Church of Christ in the wilderness. It was inclusive of rest, reading and rehearsing the word of God so that they would all have it in their minds.
It was exclusive of vocal or instrumental rejoicing. That never changed as the synagogue for the common people quarantined them from the pagan sacrificial system which God had not commanded but tolerated after He had abandoned them to walk in their own ways.
Is. 1:10 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
Rev. 11:8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city,
which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
Is. 1:11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD:
I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts;
and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
Is. 1:12 When ye come to appear before me,
who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
Is. 1:13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
Is. 1:14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
Is. 1:15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you:
yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
Is. 1:16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
Is. 1:17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless,
plead for the widow.
Is. 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD:
though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow;
though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Is. 1:19 If ye be willing and obedient,
ye shall eat the good of the land:
Is. 1:20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword:
for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
Is. 1:21 How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment;
righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
The Holocaust was related to Molech
Because of musical idolatry and because they had been worshiping the "burning" gods, there was a warning from the beginning. Nevertheless,
1Kings 11:7 Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.The burnt offering to ISRAEL was probably added without command to replace the human sacrifice of burning infants.
H5930 ‛ôlâh ‛ôlâh o-law', o-law'Feminine active participle of H5927 ; a step or (collectively stairs, as ascending); usually a holocaust (as going up in smoke):—ascent, burnt offering (sacrifice), go up to. See also H5766 .If you will, this may be an ACTED PARALLEL if all of the patternism fits of a UNITY gesture to a nation already abandoned to mechanical sectarianism. The word reconcilliation points to kings leading Israel into sin. Those with whom you try to RECONCILE will never cease their instruments (Amos; Isaiah) to shut the mouth of God . Too boot, they will laugh you to scorn for thinking that THEY will join your unity folly.
H5766 ‛evel ‛âvel ‛avlâh ‛ôlâh ‛ôlâh eh'-vel, aw'-vel, av-law', o-law', o-law' From H5765 ; (moral) evil:—iniquity, perverseness, unjust (-ly), unrighteousness (-ly), wicked (-ness)
Greek: These are the two ideal types of Greek sacrificial ritual; they are appropriate to different divinities, done for different purposes, and conducted by different methods. Holocausts are apotropaic rituals, intended to appease the spirits of the Underworld,
Hebrew: A "whole offering" (Hebrew: olah), or "burnt offering", is a type of Biblical sacrifice, specifically an animal sacrifice in which the entire sacrifice is completely burnt, consumed totally by fire. The term "burnt offering" derives from the Septuagint translation, itself deriving from the Biblical phrase "an offering made by fire", which occurs in the description of the offering. This form of sacrifice, in which no meat was left over for anyone, was seen as the greatest form of sacrifice and was the form of sacrifice permitted by Judaism to be given at the Temple by Jews and non-Jews. Modern Biblical scholars regard the Moloch offering, which involved human immolation, as being related to the whole offering.
PREPARATION OF THE MILITARY FOR THE HOLOCAUST
2Chr. 29:25 And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD [court]
with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps,
according to the commandment of David,
and of Gad the king’s seer,
PREPARATON OF THE PRIESTS FOR THE HOLOCAUST
and Nathan the prophet:
for so was the commandment of the LORD by his prophets.
THE HOLDING OR AT REST PROVES THAT DAVID COMMANDED THE INSTRUMENTS.Num. 10:8 And the sons of Aaron, the priests,
shall blow with the trumpets;
and they shall be to you for an ordinance
for ever throughout your generations.
2Chr. 29:26 And the Levites stood with the instruments of David,
and the priests with the trumpets. [Commanded by Moses A prophet]
CONDUCTING THE HOLOCAUST PROVES THAT DAVID COMMANDED THE INSTRUMENTSA: That which was invented by David:
Psalm 81: 1 Sing for joy to God our strength; shout aloud to the God of Jacob!
Psalm 81: 2 Begin the music, strike the tambourine, play the melodious harp and lyre.B: that which was commanded by God for the festivals and new moons. We have abandoned that by being in Christ:
Psalm 81: 3 Sound the ram's horn at the New Moon, and when the moon is full, on the day of our Feast;
Psalm 81: 4 this is a decree for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
2Chr. 29:27 And Hezekiah commanded
to offer the burnt offering upon the altar.
And when the burnt offering began,
the song of the LORD began also with the TRUMPETS
and with the INSTRUMENTS ORDAINED by David king of Israel.
Could that be any clearer? You must interpret the preparation 29:25 wiht what actually happened. The instruments are ORDAINED by David who was KING and not a priest.
The kings had been turned over to worship the starry host. Therefore, the instruments are used only during the BURNT OFFERING which the Prophet Jeremiah has God saying I DID NOT COMMAND THIS.
2Chr. 29:28 And all the congregation worshipped,
and the singers sang,
and the trumpeters sounded:
and all this continued until the burnt offering was finished.
WORSHIP INCLUDED ONLY BOWING TO GOD
In the modern sense where this is used to prove that God commanded instrumental praise for the church (when He outlawed it) has the same meaning by CONSUMING the living of widows. They impose forms of music until they have driven out the owners in the hope of UNITING with those already ABANDONED as was Israel to musical idolatry.
Matt. 23:14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses,
and for a pretence make long prayer:
therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
A parallel to prove the case:
NOW SEE THAT ONLY THE PRIEST'S TRUMPETS WERE ORDAINED FOR SIGNALLING ONLY.God: Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the Lord on the altar of the Lord, which he had built before the porch, 2 Chronicles 8:12
Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles. 2 Chronicles 8:13
David: And he appointed, according to the order of David his father,
the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges,to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required: the porters also by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded. 2 Chronicles 8:14
The are specificially outlawed to make the "musical rejoicing" sounds when the synagogue or church in the wilderness met for Bible study only.2Chr. 29:29 And when they had made an end of offering,
the king and all that were present with him bowed themselves, and worshipped.
THIS IS THE ONLY THING DEFINED AS WORSHIP.
2Chr. 29:30 Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes
commanded the Levites to sing praise unto the LORD
with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer.
And they sang praises with gladness,
and they bowed their heads and worshipped.
Before his death, David ordered:END OF THE CONSECRATION ACTIVITY.
1Chr. 23:5 Moreover four thousand were porters;
and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.
Since they made ONE SOUND and shofars were tuned to ONE NOTE I would think that anyone who said that the Spirit told him to IMPOSE that on a non-instrumental church would do the decent Judas Maneuver:
All told, there were "four thousand (who) praised the Lord with the instruments" of music (I Chron. 23: 5), being divided into twenty-four courses, each consisting of one hundred sixty musicians. Most important of all, we note that "when the burnt-offering began, the song to the Lord also began with the trumpets, accompanied by the instruments" (II Chron. 29:27). "All the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and the trumpets sounded," we read, "until the burnt-offering was finished" (v. 28).
Then, "when they had made an end of offering" (v. 29) the people bowed to worship, and sang praises to the Lord without musical accompaniment.
Since the Scripture expressly states that the musical instruments sounded "until the burnt-offering was finished"
the congregational praise which followed must have been a capella.
[G.I.Williamson, (Notes on The Biblical Doctrine of Worship, Presbyterian Church of N.A.).]
When the others offered the animals and needed the certified Levites to kill them, we find NO GOATS and NO MUSIC during Passover. There was no "music" in any Passover observation. "Christians" hold EASTER sun rise services and INSIST on using music.
The burning of the goats was an attempt to reconcile or or redeem Israel: whena the priests offer their own sacrifices to CONSECRATE themselves to their service, there were no goata and the militaries instruments were not played. They had participated only in the Civil-Military service and no priests ever made musical noise.
2Chr. 29:31 Then Hezekiah answered and said,
Now ye have consecrated yourselves unto the LORD,
come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into the house of the LORD.
And the congregation brought in sacrifices and thank offerings;
and as many as were of a free heart burnt offerings. [never commanded]
2Chr. 29:32 And the number of the burnt offerings,
which the congregation brought,
was threescore and ten bullocks,
an hundred rams, and two hundred lambs:
all these were for a burnt offering to the LORD.
2Chr. 29:33 And the consecrated things
were six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep.
2Chr. 29:34 But the priests were too few,
so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings:
wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them,
till the work was ended, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves:
for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.
2Chr. 29:35 And also the burnt offerings were in abundance,
with the fat of the peace offerings,
and the drink offerings for every burnt offering.
So the service of the house of the LORD was set in order.
2Chr. 29:36 And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people,
that God had prepared the people: for the thing was done suddenly.
SUMMARY:
1. NO INSTRUMENTAL NOISE (4000) during the atonement for Judah
2. Instrumental noise including the MILITARY Levites only during burn offering to RECONCILE Israel. This was NOT commanded.
3. No instrumental noise during the following Passover (No Easter musical with gold covered boar's testicals on the Easter Tree.
GOD WROUGHT NO PERMANENT GOOD AFTER THE POLITICAL-MILITARY HAD COLLECTED THE PRIESTS.
Hezekiah wasn't paying much attention to little Manasseh. In the first place in chapter 28 the king had taken the sacrificial horrows outside of the walls where God had quarantined it. The promise from the beginning that if they let the sacrifices be seen, they would receive a plague.
2Chr. 33:1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign,
and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:
2Chr. 33:2 But did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD,
like unto the abominations of the heathen,
whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
2Chr. 33:3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down,
and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves,
and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
2Chr. 33:4 Also he built altars in the house of the LORD,
whereof the LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.
REMEMBERING THAT GOD HAD ABANDONED ALL OF THE CIVIL-MILITARY-CLERGY TO WORSHIP THE STARRY HOST.Acts 7:38 This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina,2Chr. 33:5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
Acts 7:39 To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,
Acts 7:40 Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for as for this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
Acts 7:41 And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
Acts 7:42 Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?
Acts 7:43 Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.
Acts 7:44 Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.
2Chr. 33:6 And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom:
also he observed times, and used enchantments,
and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit,
and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
H5172 nâchash naw-khash' A primitive root; properly to hiss, that is, whisper a (magic) spell; generally to prognosticate:— X certainly, divine, enchanter, (use) X enchantment, learn by experience, X indeed, diligently observe.
See the Musical Serpent Worship History
2Chr. 33:9 So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err,H5174 nechâsh nekh-awsh' (Chaldee); corresponding to H5154 ; copper:—brass.
H5153 nâchûsh naw-khoosh' Apparently passive participle of H5172 (perhaps in the sense of ringing, that is, bell metal; or from the red color of the throat of a serpent ( H5175 , as denominative) when hissing); coppery, that is, (figuratively) hard:—of brass.
H3784 kâshaph kaw-shaf' A primitive root; properly to whisper a spell, that is, to inchant or practise magic:—sorcerer, (use) witch (-craft).
and to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.
The serpent in the garden of evil was known as a "musical enchanter." The king of Tyre is also the personification of Lucifer the singing and harp playing prostitute in the garden of Eden.
While making atonement for the king, kingdom and priestood there are no instruments used.
So we have only the king set over the nation to worship the starry host involving the Kings Levitical noise makers ONLY during the reconciliation effort to Israel as they burned the goats.
When the individual priests sanctified themselves with animal sacrifices there is no instrumental noise. Scholars have noted that the singing would have been without instruments.
As soon as Hezekiah died and his son took controlled they RESUMED the worship of the stars.
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