{"id":18341,"date":"2016-09-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leithart.level2d.com\/?p=107"},"modified":"2016-09-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T00:00:00","slug":"yahweh-enters-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/leithart\/2016\/09\/yahweh-enters-rest\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahweh Enters Rest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\u201cA<\/span>rise, Yahweh, to Your resting place, you and the ark of your strength\u201d (Psalm 132:8). The Psalm describes the ascent of Yahweh\u2026s ark-throne into Jerusalem as an entry into rest. Yahweh has conquered, Yahweh has taken His throne, Yahweh enters Sabbath.<\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly, 1 Chronicles 15, which recounts the ascent of the ark, is patterned by Sabbatical sevens. The list of Levitical singers and musicians is organized as follows:<\/p>\n

1) Three chief Levites: Heman, Asaph, Ethan, 15:17<\/p>\n

2) Fourteen of \u201csecond rank,\u201d 15:18<\/p>\n

3) Levites and their assigned instruments, 15:19-21:<\/p>\n

3a) Three chief Levites on cymbals, 15:19<\/p>\n

3b) Eight Levites with harps, 15:20<\/p>\n

3c) Six Levites with lyres, 15:21<\/p>\n

4) Chenaniah the singing-teacher, 15:22<\/p>\n

5) Two gatekeepers for the ark, 15:23<\/p>\n

6) Seven priests with trumpets, 15:24<\/p>\n

The three chief Levites are listed twice (1, 3a), the initial list of fourteen Levites (2) is repeated in two sections, (3b, 3c; \u201cBen\u201d in v. 18 is \u201cBeniah\u201d in v. 20), and then another seven priests are listed (6). Twenty-one (3 7s) Levitical and priestly Levites are listed. When we add in the three chief Levites, we get a nice double-twelve. If we take the initial three chief Levites with the fourteen of second rank (v. 18), we have 17, the gematria for kabod<\/em>, \u201cglory.\u201d The passage lists seven sounds: singing, shouting, horn, trumpet, cymbals, harps, lyres (v. 28).<\/p>\n

Yahweh ascends to His Sabbath throne in the midst of the aural glory of twenty-one Levitical and priestly musicians. Thus, \u201call Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh,\u201d a clause of seven words in Hebrew.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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