Secret_History

454 The Secret History of the World
Nebuchadnezzar. It could be said that Jeremiah was associated with the pro-
Babylonian party and was probably the one who gave Josiah the bad advice to side
with Babylon against Egypt and Assyria. So much for the divine inspiration and
superior advice of a priest of Yahweh. Seems to be so that every time his advice is
taken, it leads to death and destruction for Israel. Maybe they ought to notice this.
More than this, Jeremiah is the one prophet in the Bible to refer to Shiloh. He
calls Shiloh, “The place where I [God] caused my name to dwell”. This was,
essentially, the central place of worship.
As we mentioned above, Solomon-Ahab had not been very nice to the Shiloh
priests. Their leader, Abiathar, had been one of Omri-David’s two chief priests.
They were expelled from Jerusalem by Solomon, banished to their family estate in
the town of Anathoth. This was a town of the Aaronid priests, and presumably
Abiathar could be kept under house arrest there.
So, how do we connect things here? The first verses of the book of Jeremiah say,
“The words of Jeremiah, son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth”.
And now we know how this “Torah” was “discovered” so conveniently at just
the “right moment”. It was created just for that purpose. And we know who
created it.
Jeremiah is a priest who never sacrifices, which is consistent with the position of
the priests at Shiloh. He is also the only prophet to allude to a story of Moses’
bronze snake. 339 That story comes from the E source, the Shiloh source. King
Hezekiah had smashed that snake. His destruction of an ancient relic that was
associated with Moses himself is astonishing in and of itself. But, the fact is, it was
powerfully associated with the Shiloh priesthood. They were the ones who told the
story of this serpent. They were the ones who held Moses in higher esteem than
anyone, and they were, most probably, Moses descendants – whoever Moses
might have been. The term in Hebrew for the bronze snake was “Nehushtan”.
Josiah married his son to a woman named Nehushta. 340
Now we must ask another question: if such a document was written by the
priests of the Northern kingdom, how did it find its way into the Temple in Judah
since we know that the Aaronid priests had a pretty firm grip on things there? How
did it become the law of the land?
Here we come to a very strange thing that I have alluded to above in terms of the
confused genealogies.
In I Chronicles 3:15 we read:
“And the sons of Josiah were, the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third
Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.” In verse 16 we read: “And the sons of Jehoiakim:
Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son.”
339 The Bible, Jeremiah, 8: 17-22.
340 The Bible, 2 Kings, 24:8.