25:23-34). 3. 1 Kings 16:122:53 tells the story of Ahab and Jezebel, and indicates that Jezebel was a dominant influence on Ahab, persuading him to abandon Yahweh and establish the religion of Baal in Israel. [44][45] The King David Legacy Center has seen support from Haredi Jews in Jerusalem. 245) makes Micah an Ephraimite. Ahaziah: Jehoram king of Judah and Ahab king of Israel each had a son with this name, but neither of them reigned for very long. Sylvia is co-author of a devotional book and her writing is included in several book compilations. 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Joram "did evil in the sight of the Lord" ( 2 Chronicles 21:6 ). The influences in our lives matter. Six were murdered by the oldest son Jehoram/Joram after he became king. And Ahab replied, There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the Lord, but I hate him, because he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. He is also the namesake of Captain Ahab in Moby Dick by Herman Melville. The grandson of Hezekiah ben David through his eldest son David ben Chyzkia, Hiyya al-Daudi, died in 1154 in Castile according to Abraham ibn Daud and is the ancestor of the ibn Yahya family. Jesse's disobedience to Samuel's command and Naboth 's disobedience to Ahab's command to give his descendants a vineyard were not unusual. Does God Really Work All Things Together for Good? The family tree of David (whose descendants became the royal family of the kingdom of Judah) contains quite a few women who were not Jewish. Wilhelm Bacher, Jacob Zallel Lauterbach (1906). He . Sidonians was another name for the Phoenicians, that seafaring people on the Mediterranean coast who occupied the great cities of Tyre and Sidon. As Jehu rode to execute vengeance on the house of Ahab, Jehoram cried, Is it peace, Jehu? Jehu summed up Jehorams reign with his reply: What peace, so long as the harlotries of your mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many? (2 Kgs. 21:2). Throughout the tangled history of Israel and Judahs kings and kingdoms, God did indeed work in mysterious ways. [43] In 2020, Roth chose Brando Crawford, a descendant from both grandfathers, to represent the organization internationally. A godly wife will challenge her husband to listen to God and live for Him, not encourage him to sin. And that inflexible self-will which has never been broken and yielded to God may ultimately lead to much greater problems. Very few bowmen would have been that accurate. These offenses and atrocities stirred up populist resentment from figures such as Elijah and Micaiah. The information in the article above and shown in Jehoshaphats family tree can be found in the Bible books of Ruth, 1 & 2 Samuel, 1 & 2 Kings, 1 & 2 Chronicles and Jeremiah. . Athaliah didn't kill over every single descendant of David, only the royal heirs who could have threatened her claim to the throne. SBL Academia Biblica 12. So he served Baal and worshiped him and provoked the Lord God of Israel to anger according to all that his father had done (1 Kgs. In the end, "there was never anyone like Ahab, who sold . Joash had ruled Judah for 40 years. If Athaliah his daughter had succeeded in her attempts to wipe out David's descendants them the Davidic covenant . 16:30). But if Luke's genealogy is not that of Mary, there is no explicit biblical affirmation that Jesus is physically a descendant of David. So idols of both Baal and Ashtoreth stood side by side in their temples and were worshiped by priests and temple prostitutes with lewd dances and sacred orgies, with the hope that their god and goddess would follow their example and increase the productivity of their agriculture, their animals, and their children. 1. Joash was the only descendant of the house of David living at the time of Ahaziah's death that escaped slaughter at the hand of his grandmother Athaliah.Only a year old when the royal family was exterminated, he with his nurse was concealed by his paternal aunt . Israel's Wicked Queen. And when he was dying, he said, May theLordseeand avenge! 2 Chronicles 24:22 ESV. So Micaiah was called, and although he knew his life was in danger, he spoke what God told him. . What Every Christian Should Know about the Protestant Reformation. After the kings death, their son Ahaziah became king, but his pagan mother Athaliah remained the behind-the-scenes evil adviser. They believe that they are right and others are wrong, and they are determined to have everything their way. God had made a covenant with David. We expect almost anything from a man that degenerate, and are not surprised to read, And it came about, as though it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went to serve Baal and worshiped him (1 Kgs. What kind of a man are you? So he showed her by roughing her up a little, and then by turning to cheating and stealing to make ends meet. His plan was for Jesus to be heir to Davids throne. All rights reserved. In Jewish eschatology, the Messiah is a future Jewish king from the Davidic line, who is expected to rule the Jewish people during the Messianic Age and world to come. They had a special economic and social status in the Jewish community, and they were close to their respective governments, some serving as advisers and tax collectors/finance ministers. Joash the boy-king of Judah reigned from 835-796 BC. May their lives and walks with God strengthen your faith and encourage your soul. ; Mic. [47][48][49] The Messiah is often referred to as "King Messiah", or, in Hebrew, (melekh mashiach), and, in Aramaic, malka meshia. He could have purged the land from all idols and all high places of worship. Jerusalem: The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1997, nos. [33] Similarly Maimonides claimed 37 generations between him and Simeon ben Judah ha-Nasi, who was also a fourth-generation descendant of Gamaliel. She replied, Do you now reign over Israel? (1 Kgs. 1. The Davidic line or House of David (Hebrew: , romanized:Beit David) refers to the lineage of the Israelite king David. On the other hand, excavations at Khirbet Qeiyafa[20] and Eglon,[21] as well as structures from Hazor, Gezer, Megiddo and other sites conventionally dated to the 10th century BCE, are interpreted by many scholars to show that Judah was capable of accommodating large-scale urban societies centuries before minimalist scholars claim,[22][23][24] and some have taken the physical archaeology of tenth-century Canaan as consistent with the former existence of a unified state on its territory,[25] as archaeological findings demonstrate substantial development and growth at several sites, plausibly related to the tenth century. According to scholars within Orthodox Judaism, this is considered to have contributed to their downfall and the eventual downfall of Judea; internal strife allowing for Roman occupation and the violent installation of Herod the Great as client king over the Roman province of Judea; and the subsequent destruction of the Second Temple by the future Emperor Titus. 29). (Called also Jehoash.) Mom to four, grandma to 14, and wife to her one and only love, Sylvia enjoys writing about all of them. How can a wife increase her respect for her husband? In the 11th-15th century, families that descended from the Exilarchs that lived in the South of France (Narbonne and Provence) and in northern Iberian peninsula (Barcelona, Aragon and Castile) received the title "Nasi" in the communities and were called "free men". With the ever-present menace of Syria and the growing threat of Assyria, Ahab decided that he needed an alliance with this neighboring nation, so he made a treaty with the king of Phoenicia and sealed it by marrying his daughter. As recorded in 2 Kings 9:30-34, Jehu had his servants throw Jezebel out of a window, causing her death. He was the son of Ahab and Jezebel, and brother to Ahaziah and Athaliah . 16:31). The Cross And Christs Suffering For Sins (1 Peter 3:18-22), 6. of God only knows how many generations will be affected by our sinful self-will, our insistence on having things our way instead of Gods. Ahaz (Hebrew: , z, "has held"; Greek: , Akhaz; Latin: Achaz) an abbreviation of Jehoahaz II (of Judah), "Yahweh has held" (Hebrew: , Modern: Yh'aaz, Tiberian: Yh'z; Akkadian: Ya'azi [ia--a-zi]) was the twelfth king of Judah, and the son and successor of Jotham. Jeroboam I was not from the line of David. 2:25, Heb. For good measure he then killed most of . All subsequent kings in both the ancient first united Kingdom of Israel and the later Kingdom of Judah claimed direct descent from King David to validate their claim to the throne in order to rule over the Israelite tribes. There are many biological descendants of David all over the place only one son per generation was the royal heir. Joash/Jehoash had at least two wives (2 Chronicles 24:3-4). The Hebrew Bible presents Ahab as a wicked king. 28b; Tanna debe Eliyahu Rabba ix, Zua xxiv.). The Hasmoneans, who established their own monarchy in Judea in the 2nd century BCE, were not considered connected to the Davidic line nor to the Tribe of Judah. He had the dubious distinction of being the most wicked king who reigned over Israel up until his day. 22:39), but he also built a second palace in Jezreel, twenty-five miles to the north, in an area of a more moderate climate in the wintertime. Jezebel outlived him by almost fourteen years. ". xi. In 2005, another Dayan, Rabbi Yosef Dayan, was recognized by the nascent Sanhedrin as a direct descendant of King David and, as such, a candidate to re-establish the Davidic Dynasty. Instead, he reacted with offense. And the evil influence lived on! King Jehoshaphat was a descendant of King David, from the tribe of Judah, and began to reign over Judah about 100 years after the death of King David. Athaliah married King Joram, son of Judahs King Jehoshaphat. xv. [7] If, however, the numbers are referring to allies, they could possibly include forces from Tyre, Judah, Edom, and Moab. 170 0 obj
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xii. List of Characters, Harmony of Bible records in Jeremiahs time. Indeed, he is referred to by the author of Kings as being "more evil than all the kings before him". Several Ashkenazi scholars also claimed descent from King David. The Tree of Jesse (a reference to David' father) is a traditional Christian artistic representation of Jesus' genealogical connection to David. Ask him to help you. Photo credit: GettyImages/Sviatlana Lazarenka. 21:7). 180 et seq.). A number of Jewish families in the Iberian peninsula and within Mesopotamia continued to preserve the tradition of descent from Exilarchs in the Late Middle Ages, including the families of Abravanel, ibn Yahya and Ben-David. Athaliah was the daughter of Ahab king of Israel (2 Kings 8:18; 2 Chronicles 21:6; 22:2-3). Those who held the position traced their ancestry to the House of David in the male line. But riveting site shores up roots of Israelite era", "Solomon, Scripture, and Science: The Rise of the Judahite State in the 10th Century BCE", "Rabbi Yehiel Ben Shlomo Heilprin - (Circa 5420-5506; 1660-1746)", The Maharal of Prague's Descent from King David, "SHERIRA B. ANINA - JewishEncyclopedia.com", "HAI BEN SHERIRA - JewishEncyclopedia.com", "Jews of Turkey Archives Point of No Return", "Are you a descendant of the House of David? 118, Warsaw, 1889), Micah was buried in Chesil, a town in southern Judah (Josh. They each ruled their own kingdom and their reigns even overlapped. His denunciation of the royal dynasty of Israel and his emphatic insistence on the worship of Yahweh and Yahweh alone, illustrated by the contest between Yahweh and Baal on Mount Carmel,[1 Kings 18] form the keynote to a period that culminated in the accession of Jehu, an event in which Elijah's chosen disciple Elisha was the leading figure and the Omride Dynasty was brutally defeated. In times of crisis such as famine, they slashed themselves and even sacrificed their children to appease the gods and implore their help. [31] An unsuccessful attempt of David ben Daniel of the Davidic line to establish an Exilarchate in the Fatimid Caliphate failed and ended with his downfall in 1094. In addition, Mormon eschatology includes multiple references to other prophesied Davidic figures,[55] including one by the name of David who would come in the last days to inherit the throne and kingdom of David.[56]. Zechariahs reprimand didnt sit well with Joash. Joashs story could have ended much differently had he made different choices. He was a descendant of King David through Zerubbabel (1 Chronicles 3:21). Jehoidas son, Zechariah came before the king and confronted him about his actions. 24:17). A descendant of David: The son of Arnan and father of Shecanian was named Obadiah. Weak, vacillating people like Ahab often want their own way just as much as headstrong, domineering people like Jezebel. The Cross And Separation From The World (1 Peter 4:1-6), 7. She knew what was about to happen, but she was going to die like a queen, arrogant, self-willed and unrepentant to the end. He gives wisdom. You can unsubscribe at any time. 9:33). During the reign of his grandmother, temple items were plundered for Baal worship. The southern kingdom of Judah was being ruled by his descendants, while the . On his father's side, Rashi has been claimed to be a 33rd-generation descendant of Johanan HaSandlar, who was a fourth-generation descendant of Gamaliel, who was reputedly descended from the Davidic line. The first step to victory is simply to admit that continually demanding our own way is disobedience to Gods Word, and therefore sin. Salem Media Group. Accounts of the life of Athaliah are to be found in 2 Kings 8:16-11:16 and 2 Chronicles 22:10-23:15. . Jehu was the son of Jehoshaphat, although he is more commonly mentioned as son of Nimshi, his grandfather, perhaps because Nimshi was more well-known. The trouble often starts when our mates infringe upon our inviolable rights. [26] Even so, as for David and his immediate descendants themselves, the position of some scholars, as described by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Silberman, authors of The Bible Unearthed, espouses that David and Solomon may well be based on "certain historical kernels", and probably did exist in their own right, but their historical counterparts simply could not have ruled over a wealthy lavish empire as described in the Bible, and were more likely chieftains of a comparatively modest Israelite society in Judah and not regents over a kingdom proper.[27]. Intermarriage between Israelite and Judean royalty added a twisted mess of seriously bad branches toJoashs family tree. You can take anything you want. With her Phoenician background, Jezebel could not seem to understand that even the king in Israel was subject to the laws of God. Rehoboam was the son of Naamah the Ammonitess (1 Kings 14:21, 31). These two were self-willed to the end. He could have acknowledged his sin and repented when confronted. . [39] The Jewish banking family Louis Cahen d'Anvers claimed descent from the Davidic Line[40] Rabbi Yosef Dayan, who is a modern-day claimant to the Davidic throne in Israel and the founder of the Monarchist party Malchut Israel, descends from the Dayan family of Aleppo, who paternally descend from Hasan ben Zakkai, the younger brother of the Exilarch David I (d. 940). She was going to teach Ahab her philosophy of life: Take what you want and destroy anyone who stands in your way. And Ahab did not have the courage to stop her. xliii). The name Joash is not an uncommon Bible name. Money, relationships, addictions, and power can be idols that vie for our affections and gain control over us. (On Athaliah, see the comment upon 2 Kings 8:18. Kings over Judah and Israel shared a few names: Now available with pre-order savings here. And again, everyone in the family suffered. Now a certain man drew his bow at random and struck the king of Israel in a joint of the armor (1 Kgs. 21:1). Can you believe that a grown man would act this childishly? [4] During this battle, Ahab disguised himself, but he was mortally wounded by an unaimed arrow. "Solomon's stables" (or Ahab's), "King Solomon's mines" at Timna - and there are some who are still hard at work and have found Mount Sinai (at Mount Karkoum in the Negev) or Joshua's altar at Mount Ebal.
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