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What does Aaron’s rod signify in the Bible? Throughout its history it has associations of miraculous power, especially the power to transform physical reality. HTM 5/13/2007 Page 50 of 3291 supernatural power working through human agencies, the rod also evokes a sense of authority, both political (it helped the nation’s leaders win its conflicts) and priestly (its blossoming coincided with the establishment of the house of Aaron and tribe of Levi in a priestly role). Although this ordinary rod was far from being a royal scepter, it nonetheless seems scepter-like in our imaginations as we read of its miraculous powers.
The most elementary form of connotation is simply whether an image is positive or negative in association in the context in which it appears. When we encounter an image in the Bible, therefore, we need to learn to ask two questions: (1) What is the literal picture? (2) What does this image evoke? Answering the first question will insure that we have allowed the Bible to speak to our “right brain”—that part of us that responds to the concrete realities that the Bible records. HTM 5/13/2007 Page 31 of 3291 second question will lead to an awareness of connotations, associations and significance.
At a physical level, abundance is associated with grain (Gen 41:49), water (Num 24:7; Deut 28:47), cattle and sheep (1 Kings 1:19), produce (1 Chron 12:40; Neh 9:25), food (Job 36:31; Ps 78:25), rain (Pss 65:10; 104:16) and crops (Prov 14:4). At a more commercial level, abundance is associated with building materials (2 Chron 11:23), money (2 Chron 24:11), riches (Ps 49:6; 52:7), jewels (Prov 20:15) and mercantile goods (Ezek 27:16). In the martial world of the OT [OT OT. Old Testament] , the spoils of war (2 Chron 20:25) and a supply of weapons (2 Chron 32:5) can be abundant.