SPECIAL TOPIC: PILLARS

Sacred pillars were originally set up as memorials.

1. by Moses in Exod. 24:4, as a way to commemorate the establishment of the covenant of Sinai (e.g., Josh. 4:3,9,20)
2. to some great event or to an appearance of God
   1. Shechem (cf. Josh. 24:26)
   2. Bethel (cf. Gen. 28:18)
   3. Gilead (cf. Gen. 31:45)
   4. Gilgal (cf. Josh. 4:5)
   5. Mizpah (cf. 1 Sam. 7:12)
   6. Gibeon (cf. 2 Sam 20:8)
   7. En-Rogel (cf. 1 Kgs. 9:9)

They came to be connected to the idolatrous sins of Ba'al worship and are condemned in Exod. 34:13; Deut. 12:3; 16:22; Micah 5:13. This demonstrates how the same practice or items or place can be accepted in an older part of the OT, but condemned in other parts.

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