Ranges

Ranges

Ranges - (1.) Lev. 11:35. Probably a cooking furnace for two or morepots, as the Hebrew word here is in the dual number; or perhapsa fire-place fitted to receive a pair of ovens.

(2.) 2 Kings 11:8. A Hebrew word is here used different fromthe preceding, meaning "ranks of soldiers." The Levites wereappointed to guard the king's person within the temple (2 Chr.23:7), while the soldiers were his guard in the court, and ingoing from the temple to the palace. The soldiers are herecommanded to slay any one who should break through the "ranks"(as rendered in the R.V.) to come near the king. In 2 Kings11:15 the expression, "Have her forth without the ranges," is inthe Revised Version, "Have her forth between the ranks;" i.e.,
Jehoiada orders that Athaliah should be kept surrounded by hisown guards, and at the same time conveyed beyond the precinctsof the temple.


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