Hanging, Hangings
Hanging, Hangings
HANGING, HANGINGS.1. The former is AV [Note: Authorized Version.] s term for the portire closing the entrance to the court of the Tent of Meeting (Exo 35:17 etc.), for the similar curtain at the entrance to the Tent itself (Exo 26:36 f. etc.), and once for the veil or hanging separating the Holy of Holies from the rest of the Tabernacle. In the last passage, Num 3:31, we should probably read, as in Num 4:5, the veil of the screen, screen being RV [Note: Revised Version.] s substitute for hanging throughout.
RV [Note: Revised Version.] , however, retains hangings as the tr. [Note: translate or translation.] of a different original denoting the curtains of fine twined linen which surrounded the court (Exo 27:9 etc.). See, for these various hangings, the relative sections of the art. Tabernacle.
2. In a corrupt passage, 2Ki 23:7, we read of hangings for the grove, or rather, as RV [Note: Revised Version.] , of hangings for the Asherah (cf. RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] ), woven by the women of Jerusalem. The true text is probably Lucians, which has tunics, the reference being to robes for an image of the goddess Asherah (wh. see). In the religious literature of Babylonia there is frequent reference to gifts of sheepskins, wool, etc., as clothing for the god (ana lubushti ili).
A. R. S. Kennedy.