Reference: Regem Melech
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("the king's official") (Zec 7:2). Sent by Jews of the country (Zec 7:5) to "the house of God" (Bethel) or congregation at Jerusalem. Beth-el is here used for Beth-Jehovah; the religious authorities, not "the house of Jehovah" (named in Zec 7:3), are meant. The temple was not actually completed until two years later (Ezr 6:15 with Zec 7:1). But the congregation, headed by their priests, was "the house of God," paving the way for the spiritual New Testament "house of God" (Heb 3:6; Zec 3:7; Ho 8:1). Ezra (Ezr 5:8,15; 6:7; 7:20,23) uses Bet Elowah for "the house of God." The allusion is to God's words to Jacob, "go up to Bethel" (Ge 28:19; 35:1).
Jacob's "house of God" consisted as yet of but a pillar first and an altar afterward (Ge 28:17-18,22; 36:1,7); so the house of God at the time of Regem Melech consisted merely of an altar, and congregation, and priests favored with God's presence in worship at it. God, as in Jacob's case, could bless the obedient at the bore altar before the temple was reared. But many sent to Jehovah's house, not like Jacob at Bethel but as the apostate Israelites to the calf at Bethel, with no spirit of true obedience. Hence the name "Bethel" is used. In Ge 36:5, it is not to the people of Bethel but "unto all the people of the land" the word of the Lord came in reply; therefore Bethel is not the nominative to "sent" in Ge 36:2, as Maurer proposes.
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And he was afraid, and said, How fearful is this place! This is nothing but the house of God, and this is the gate of Heaven! And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone which he had put at his head, and set it as a memorial pillar, and poured oil on the top of it. read more. And he called the name of that place The House of God. But the name of that city was Luz at first.
And this stone which I have set for a pillar shall be God's house. And of all that You shall give me, I will surely give the tenth to You.
And God said to Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. And make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.
And these are the generations of Esau, that is Edom. Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan, Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite,
And Oholibamah bore Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah. These were the sons of Esau who were born to him in the land of Canaan.
For their riches were more than that they might dwell together. And the land of their travels could not bear them because of their cattle.
Let it be known to the king that we went into the province of Judea, to the house of the great God, which is being built with great stones, and timber is being laid in the walls, and this work goes on fast and is blessed in their hands.
And he said to him, Take these vessels and go. Carry them into the temple in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be built in His place.
Let the work of this house of God alone. Let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God in its place.
And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.
And whatever more shall be needful for the house of God, which you shall have need to give, give it out of the king's treasure house.
Whatever is commanded by the God of Heaven, let it be carefully done for the house of the God of Heaven, for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?
Put a trumpet to your mouth. He comes like an eagle against the house of Jehovah, because they have broken My covenant and have sinned against My Law.
So says Jehovah of Hosts: If you will walk in My ways, and if you will keep My charge, then you shall also judge My house, and shall also keep My courts, and I will give you places to walk among these who stand by.
And it happened in the fourth year of King Darius, the Word of Jehovah came to Zechariah in the fourth of the ninth month, in Chislev. And Sherezer and Regem-melech and his men had been sent to the house of God, to seek the favor of Jehovah, read more. to speak to the priests who belong to the house of Jehovah of Hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, consecrating myself, as I have done these many years?
Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months, even those seventy years, did you truly fast to Me, even to Me?
But Christ was faithful as a Son over his own house; whose house we are, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.