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They open their mouths against me, they are like lions that tear (tear their prey to pieces) and roar again and again. [The word for surround is also to crown and bind a wreath. Here there is a connection to the crown of thorns that the soldiers bound, see John 19:2. The word "Bashan" means "serpent" and connects to a spiritual, demonic dimension. Behind people's mockery of Jesus is an evil power. Jesus says that the Pharisees' father is the devil, see John 8:44. Ugaritic clay tablets from 1200 BC refer to Bashan as "the place of the serpent." The area has often been associated with occult activities. The caves at the foot of Mount Hermon were believed to contain a portal to the realm of the dead. Idols such as Baal and Pan were worshipped here. In Jewish theology, it was in this area that the sons of God descended and mingled with the daughters of men, see Gen. 6. King Og of Bashan, whom Joshua defeated, is referred to as "the last of the Rephaim." Rephaim is a Hebrew word for giants. His bed, or tomb, was 4 meters long, see Deut. 3:8–11; Josh. 12:4–5. It is to this special place, to the caves and temples of Caesarea Philippi, that Jesus takes his disciples and teaches them that "the gates of hell" have no power over the church, see Matt. 16:13–18. Jesus tells them that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer greatly at the hands of the chief priests and scribes, be killed, but rise again, see Matt. 16:21. The connection between the bulls of Bashan in Psalm 22 and Jesus' mention of the chief priests and scribes is striking. It is here, "in the place of the serpent," that Peter says, "You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God," see Matt. 16:16. A statement that must have aroused disgust in the evil world. The real enemy and the struggle become clear in Jesus' words at this very place against the one who influenced Peter to believe that Jesus did not need to die on the cross: "Get behind me, Satan," see Matt. 16:23.]
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