Sentences with phrase «continuing kingship»
Nevertheless, the prophets remained the primary representatives of the continuing kingship or imperium of Yahweh.
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It was the kingship of Yahweh that had constituted Israel, and Israel would survive only as that imperium continued, overarching and overruling the power of human kings.1 So when the prophets said, «Thus says the LORD,» they were representing the ancient, original, final, and legitimate authority in Israel.
As tyrannical kingship had taken the place of paternal chieftainship and a stratified society based on slave labor had crowded out earlier equality, so the social organization of Israel continued to take form from the patterns of the day.