Immortality And the Unseen World a Study in Old Testament Religion
Immortality And the Unseen World a Study in Old Testament Religion
W O E William Oscar Emil Oesterley
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Hence all four words mentioned probably refer to one and the same class. IV. The " 'Ob " and the Teraphim In Ch. VIII, § VI we spoke of the Teraphim, the house- hold gods whose worship was a remnant of Ancestor- worship. In several passages in the Old Testament their mention in close connexion with the 'Oh demands a brief reference to the subject again. In 1 Sam. Xv. 23 the prophet condemns Teraphim as iniquitous and makes the use of it parallel to divination ; that they were used for pur- pose...s of divination is evident from 2 Kings xxiii. 24, for they are there mentioned in the same category as the 'Oh ; and in both Judges xvii. 5 and Hosea iii. 4 it is clearly implied that the Teraphim stood in the sanctuary, » which would have been an obvious place to come to if an oracle were sought. But the clearest evidence is seen in Zech. X. 2 : " For the Teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie. " That the practice was a Babylonian one is seen from Ezek. Xxi. 21 (26 in Hebr.
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