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Isaiah 20:2
2at that time Yahweh spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go, and loose the sackcloth from off your loins, and put your shoe from off your foot. He did so, walking naked and barefoot.
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This image reveals two dimensions of His fastening hold upon humanity.
Yet even this secure fastening remains subject to removal by the Lord of hosts who placed it there.
Just as the ancients displayed their wealth by suspending gold and silver vessels, armor, and ancestral heirlooms upon spikes along their walls, so Eliakim's elevation becomes the support structure for his entire household.
In Oriental culture, appearing without the upper garment marked a man as naked—the costume of the robbed, the disgraced, the prisoner of war.