Horayot 12A

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ומי הוה שמן המשחה? והתניא: משנגנז ארון, נגנז שמן המשחה וצנצנת המן ומקלו של אהרן שקדיה ופרחיה וארגז ששלחו פלשתים דורון לישראל, שנאמר: ״ואת כלי הזהב אשר השבתם לו אשם תשימו בארגז מצדו ושלחתם אתו והלך״.

The Talmud asks with regard to the fact that Jehoahaz was anointed: And was there anointing oil during the days of Jehoahaz? But isn’t it taught in a baraita: When the Ark of the Covenant was sequestered, the anointing oil, and the jar of manna (see Exodus 16:33), and Aaron’s staff with its almonds and blossoms (see Numbers 17:23), and the chest that the Philistines sent as a gift to Israel, were all sequestered with it, as it is stated: “And you should take the Ark of YHWH, and lay it upon the cart, and put the vessels of gold that you return Him as a guilt-offering in a chest by its side and send it away that it may go” (I Samuel 6:8).

ומי גנזו? יאשיהו מלך יהודה גנזו, שראה שכתוב בתורה: ״יולך ה׳ אתך ואת מלכך וגו׳״, צוה וגנזום, שנאמר: ״ויאמר ללוים המבינים לכל ישראל הקדושים לה׳ תנו את ארון הקדש בבית אשר בנה שלמה בן דוד מלך ישראל אין לכם משא בכתף עתה עבדו את ה׳ אלהיכם ואת עמו ישראל״.

And who sequestered the Ark? Josiah, king of Judea, sequestered it, as he saw that it is written in the Torah in the portion of rebuke: “YHWH will lead you, and your king whom you should establish over you, to a nation that you have not known” (Deuteronomy 28:36). He commanded and the people sequestered them, as it is stated: “And he said to the Levites who taught all Israel, and who were sacred to YHWH: Place the sacred Ark in the room that Solomon, son of David, king of Israel built; there should be no more burden upon your shoulders. Now serve YHWH your God and His people Israel” (II Chronicles 35:3).

ואמר רבי אלעזר: אתיא ״שם״ ״שם״, אתיא ״משמרת״ ״משמרת״, אתיא ״דורות״ ״דורות״! אמר רב פפא: באפרסמא דכיא.

And R' Elazar says: One derives a verbal analogy between the term: There, written with regard to the Ark (see Exodus 29:43), and the term: There, written with regard to the jar of manna (see Exodus 16:33); and between the term: Keepsake, written with regard to the jar of manna (see Exodus 16:33), and the term: Keepsake, written with regard to Aaron’s staff (see Numbers 17:25–26); and between the term: Generations, written with regard to the jar of manna (see Exodus 16:33), and the term: Generations, written with regard to the anointing oil (see Exodus 30:31). By means of these verbal analogies it is derived that all of these items were sequestered. Rav Pappa said: They anointed Jehoahaz with pure balsam oil, not with anointing oil.

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