David merely sat upon the Eternal's throne. 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. Jehoshebas husband was Jehoida, the High-Priest. After Ahab's death, Jehu killed Jezebel (2 Kings 9) and all of Ahab's descendants (2 Kings 10). Ahaziah also died after a short reign, leaving no one in the immediate royal family left to take the throne. 61b), the Crsus of his time, he was, according to ancient tradition (Meg. Among the families of the "Sons of the Free" are the families of Abravanel and Benveniste. Secondly, since Jesus was David's lawful fleshly Son [literal descendant of David], this same throne shall once more become His right by inheritance, continuing David's dynasty. Of course, Ahab was just as self-willed as Jezebel, but with a different temperament. He was going to have what he wanted and do what he pleased, regardless of Gods will. Joash established a voluntary donation system which provided abundantly for the necessary restoration. Anything which takes a higher position in our lives than our allegiance to God is an idol. You'll get a new micro-tale, or an informative article every week, as well as occasional special offers from Bible Tales Online. They will not listen to reason; they will not consider the feelings of others; they will not face the potential consequences of their intended actions. His plan was for Jesus to be heir to Davids throne. Salem Media Group. SBL Academia Biblica 12. . [32] endstream endobj startxref and more. [12] Naboth's soul was the lying spirit that was permitted to deceive Ahab to his death.[13]. [a], The earliest unambiguously[b] attested king from the Davidic line is Uzziah, who reigned in the 8th century BCE, about 75years after Ahaziah, who is named on bullae seals belonging to his servants Abijah and Shubnayahu. Confounding him with Micaiah, son of Imlah,[1 Kings 22:8] he states that Micah, for his inauspicious prophecy, was killed by order of Ahab through being thrown from a precipice, and was buried at Morathi (Maroth? Abijah/Abijam had 14 wives (2 Chronicles 13:21). His reputation was so negative that in 1 Kings 16:34, the author attributed to his reign the deaths of Abiram and Segub, the sons of Hiel of Bethel, caused by their father's invocation of Joshua's curse several centuries before. The Cross And Unjust Suffering (1 Peter 2:19-25), Living in Love: Secrets from Bible Marriages. 126 0 obj <> endobj Baal was considered to be the god of the land. Sylvia Schroeder loves connecting Gods Word with real life and writing about it. Because you have forsaken theLord, he has forsaken you 2 Chronicles 24:20 ESV. 9:26). Jewish tradition alludes to two redeemers, both of whom are called mashiach and are involved in ushering in the Messianic age: Mashiach ben David; and Mashiach ben Yosef. Ahab, also spelled Achab, (flourished 9th century bce), seventh king of the northern kingdom of Israel (reigned 874-c. 853 bce), according to the Bible, and son of King Omri. 12), near the cemetery of Enakim ( Septuagint rendering of; ib. Hence, the name of Ahab in the list of wicked kings was changed to Ahaz (Yer. God gave him a great victory when he called down fire from heaven upon Mount Carmel. [46], In Jewish eschatology, the term mashiach, or "Messiah", came to refer to a future Jewish king from the Davidic line, who is expected to be anointed with holy anointing oil and rule the Jewish people during the Messianic Age. 29b). The Cross And Christs Suffering For Sins (1 Peter 3:18-22), 6. The Hasmoneans, also known as the Maccabees, established their own monarchy in Judea following their revolt against the Hellenistic Seleucid dynasty. The Bible records his rise to power in 1 Kings 11:26-14:20. [2] Most recently, Michael Coogan has dated Ahab's reign to 871852 BC. (On Athaliah, see the comment upon 2 Kings 8:18. Idolatry never pleases God. These families had special rights in Narbonne, Barcelona, and Castile. Wikipedia: Ahab & . Enjoyed this article? According to 2 Kings, 2 Kings 8:16, in the fifth year of Jehoram of Israel, (another) Jehoram became . It is never easy to admit when we have sinned. %%EOF The Hasmoneans were not considered connected to the Davidic line nor to the Tribe of Judah. God is faithful to do what He promises. Jehu Slaughters Ahab's Descendants. Ahab called his yes men together and they assured him that the Lord would give Ramoth-Gilead into the hand of the king. 22:2-4). Several Ashkenazi scholars also claimed descent from King David. Why didnt you stand up to him? one wife jeered when she heard of her husbands latest disagreement with the boss. So Ahab came into his house sullen and vexed because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him . And he lay down on his bed and turned away his face and ate no food (1 Kgs. When we clean spiritual house, but dont slam the door completely, it leaves us vulnerable to greater sin. The prophets of Baal were slain and it looked as though the nation would turn back to God. The Assyrian king claimed a victory, but his immediate return and subsequent expeditions in 849 BC and 846 BC against a similar but unspecified coalition seem to show that he met with no lasting success. Athaliahs bloody killing spree missed one heir. While Joash lay on his bed wounded, they killed him. Yet their influence lived on in their children. hbbd``b`:$ @H3@8 bnqA:w`Ab@bA&F^@^ Kv X 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. He will not only enable you to carry through with your decision to act in love, but He will give you genuine delight in doing His will. 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. With evil men persuading him to do wrong, Joash caved to their influence. A man will do strange things when he is taunted and ridiculed by his wife. Maybe the husband will not let his wife buy something she thinks she has a right to have, or the wife prepares an absolutely terrible dinner on the very day hubby is expecting his favorite dish. hb```f``|2@q61000Hh&p4p4x@ pH X$LrDCJ,Ef,``^,1d.fb`` @f"} ! 16:30). The bulk population of the Northern Kingdom of Israel was forced to relocate to Mesopotamia and mostly disappeared from history as The Ten Lost Tribes or intermixed with exiled Judean populations two centuries later, while the remaining Israelite peoples in Samaria highlands have become known as Samaritans during the classic era and to modern times. But Elijah was the only one courageous enough to stand up openly against Jezebels wickedness. They each ruled their own kingdom and their reigns even overlapped. 21:7). Mar Ahunai lived in the period succeeding Mar Zutra II, but for almost fifty years after the failed revolt he did not dare to appear in public, and it is not known whether even then (c.550) he really acted as Exilarch. He could have purged the land from all idols and all high places of worship. 1:12; Coniah, Jer. Shalmaneser III of Assyria documented in 853 BC that he defeated an alliance of a dozen kings in the Battle of Qarqar; one of these was Ahab. Choose carefully what andwho you allow to influence you. Of him God says, And he did evil in the sight of the Lord and walked in the way of his father and in the way of his mother and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin. Athaliah was the daughter of Ahab king of Israel (2 Kings 8:18; 2 Chronicles 21:6; 22:2-3). Two sons of Ahab and Jezebel later ruled in Israel. Ahab Ahab (Hebrew: , Modern A'av Tiberian A; Akkadian: , translit. In Judaism it is based on texts from the Hebrew Bible and through the succeeding centuries based on later traditions. Accounts of the life of Athaliah are to be found in 2 Kings 8:16-11:16 and 2 Chronicles 22:10-23:15. The king of Judah called Jehoahaz was also known as Shallum, a name he shared with an earlier king of Israel. 22:34). The Talmud legends, curiously enough, reckon eight prophets among her descendants, including Jeremiah and Baruch, but not any of the line of David. A widely spread traditional Christian interpretation relates the non-continuation of the main Davidic line from Solomon to the godlessness of the line of Jehoiachin which started in the early 500s BC, when Jeremiah cursed the main branch of the Solomonic line, by saying that no descendant of "[Je]Coniah" would ever reign on the throne of Israel again (Jeremiah 22:30). Joash the boy-king of Judah reigned from 835-796 BC. Get Your Bible Minute in Your Inbox Every Morning. Similar to Mitchell Dayan, his discovery came as a result of a death in the family. And he did evil in the sight of the Lord like the house of Ahab, for they were his counselors after the death of his father, to his destruction (2 Chron. Dont listen to bad advice. She replied, Do you now reign over Israel? (1 Kgs. [3][4][5] The Christian gospels claim that Jesus descends from the Davidic line and is therefore the legitimate Hebrew Messiah. Ahab's contribution was estimated at 2000 chariots and 10,000 men. But the Septuagint adds that pigs also licked his blood, symbolically making him unclean to the Israelites, who abstained from pork. Family trees. That step of faith will open the channel of Gods power. Several families, as late as the 14th century, traced their descent back to Josiah, the brother of David ben Zakkai who had been banished to Chorasan (see the genealogies in [Lazarus 1890] pp. Matthew starts with Abraham, while Luke begins with Adam.The lists are identical between Abraham and David, but differ radically from that point.Matthew has twenty-seven generations from David to Joseph, whereas Luke has forty-two, with almost no overlap between . 22:17). Listening bred temptation which birthed disobedience. The army of the Syrians left him severely injured. The southern kingdom of Judah was being ruled by his descendants, while the northern kingdom of Israel suffered under a succession of wicked men at the helm. These are possible confusions because ancient societies are viewed from a modern perspective. 11:31, shows that her fame had risen at the time when St. Matthew wrote. All rights reserved. It was obvious that God was guiding that arrow, and Ahabs self-will ended in his untimely death. Because hed hadZechariah put to death, his own servants conspired against him. 80. Instead, he reacted with offense. He was followed by Jehu who like Omri long before him, was a commander of the army. 28b; Tanna debe Eliyahu Rabba ix, Zua xxiv.). 0 If you enjoy reading real Bible-based fiction or are willing to give it a try, enter your name and email address in the fields below, then click "Subscribe". Joash/Jehoash had at least two wives (2 Chronicles 24:3-4). But if Luke's genealogy is not that of Mary, there is no explicit biblical affirmation that Jesus is physically a descendant of David. While the forceful ones rant and rave, strike out at those who stand in their way, throw fits and destroy things, the weak ones sulk and pout and fret like spoiled children. 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. Jehoshaphat was a direct descendant of David and ruled Judah. "[57] and mentions David himself sixteen times. God had made a covenant with David. 1 Kings 16:28-34. He dug in his heels to his own detriment and the nations. [35] Hai Gaon was the son of Sherira Gaon, who claimed descent from Rabbah b. Abuha, who belonged to the family of the exilarch, thereby claiming descent from the Davidic line. When Athaliah heard the ruckus and saw the king standing by a pillar in the temple, she cried out, Treason! Omri left to Ahab an empire that comprised not only territory east of the Jordan River, in Gilead and probably Bashan, but also the land of Moab, whose king was tributary. 2 Kgs. For as long as Jehoiada lived, he continued to instruct and mentor Joash. And that inflexible self-will which has never been broken and yielded to God may ultimately lead to much greater problems. It is possible that in one or both cases, the name should be connected with the name before or after it in the list, which would reduce the number of sons by one or two. 2:25, Heb. A family tree centred on King Jehoshaphat is included below. Later rabbinical authorities grant the office of exilarch to family members that traced its patrilineal[29] descent from David, King of Israel. Very few bowmen would have been that accurate. I dont want her. And destroyed all the seed royal All of the royal family that had not been cut off by Jehu and others, except one, mentioned 2 Kings 11:2.To this wickedness she was impelled by many motives: 1st, By rage to see Ahab's family destroyed, which made her resolve that the family of David should share the same fate. He . Before his reign as king, Jehu functioned as a commander in the army of Ahab ( 2 Kings 9:5, 25) in the northern kingdom of Israel. 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. Male descendants of King David ruled Israel until the Babylonians conquered Jerusalem in 597 BCE, and Jews scattered. The worship of Jehovah must have seemed dull and commonplace by comparison, and she was determined to change it. - And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead. Extrabiblical sources, however, paint a picture of a dynamic and powerful figure, and he is thought by modern scholars to have been one of the . Athaliah was queen of Judah from 841-835 BC and the only female monarch to sit on David's throne in biblical history. He gives wisdom. 21:6). The first was Ahaziah. Ahab whose name means 'the Father is my brother', i.e. Initially, David was king over the Tribe of Judah only and ruled from Hebron, but after seven and a half years, the other Israelite tribes, who found themselves leaderless after the death of Ish-bosheth, chose him to be their king as well.[28]. The first step to victory is simply to admit that continually demanding our own way is disobedience to Gods Word, and therefore sin. He could have refused audience to the leaders of Judah who brought bad advice. . Since, however, it was Ahab's idolatrous wife who was the chief instigator of his crimes (B. M. 59a), some of the ancient teachers gave him the same position in the world to come as a sinner who had repented (Sanh. Athaliah didn't kill over every single descendant of David, only the royal heirs who could have threatened her claim to the throne. . And few of My servants are grateful. One Christian interpretation of the Davidic line counts the line as continuing to Jesus son of Joseph, according to the genealogies which are written in Matthew 1:1-16 descendants of Solomon and Luke 3:23-38 descendants of Nathan son of David through the line of Mary. His great-grandson Simeon ben Gamliel became one of the Jewish leaders during the First JewishRoman War.[30]. 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 . 170 0 obj <>stream Joash survived a massacre staving off a wicked plot that would have brought the Davidic throne to the edge of extinction. 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. 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. 102b; Yer. [4] During this battle, Ahab disguised himself, but he was mortally wounded by an unaimed arrow. But Jezebel was not finished with her sinister work. When Jehoshaphat, King of Judah, came to visit Ahab, he asked him if he would go to battle with him for Ramoth-Gilead. The Beginner's Guide. Her time as queen is nestled amid centuries of evil monarchs who reigned over . Of this disgraceful incident in Ahabs life, God said, Surely there was no one like Ahab who sold himself to do evil in the sight of the Lord, because Jezebel his wife incited him (1 Kgs. 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. 6. 245) makes Micah an Ephraimite. His reign was slightly more emphasized upon than the previous kings, due to his blatant trivialization of the "sins of Jeroboam", which the previous kings of Israel were plagued by, and his subsequent marriage with a pagan princess, the nationwide institution of Baal worship, the persecution of Yahweh's prophets and Naboth's shocking murder. Thus says God, Why do you break the commandments of theLord, so that you cannot prosper? And Jehu wrote and sent letters to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to those who reared Ahab's sons, saying: "Now as soon as this letter comes to you, since your master's sons are with you, and you have chariots and horses, a . The Lord did see. But it didnt work out quite like he planned. Israel's Wicked Queen. 10). He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor to do wickedly. According to the Bible, David, of the Tribe of Judah, was . Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. However, The Jewish Quarterly Review mentions that Hezekiah was liberated from prison, and became head of the academy, and is mentioned as such by a contemporary in 1046. As recorded in 2 Kings 9:30-34, Jehu had his servants throw Jezebel out of a window, causing her death. The kingdom fell to the Neo-Babylonian Empire in 587/6 BCE. Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. The Tel Dan Stele mentions the death of the reigning king from "BYTDWD",[6] (interpreted as "House of David") and thus far is the only extrabiblical explicit mention of David himself. All that remains of the name is the final syllable, the extremely common theophoric suffix -yah. This kingdom was conquered by the Neo-Assyrian Empire in the 8th century BCE which exiled much of the Northern Kingdom population and ended its sovereign status. During the reign of his grandmother, temple items were plundered for Baal worship. [38] The Berduga family of Meknes claim paternal descent from the Exilarch, Bostanai. Wilhelm Bacher, Jacob Zallel Lauterbach (1906). [1 Kings 16:30][4], Nonetheless, there were achievements that the author took note of, including his ability to fortify numerous Israelite cities and build an ivory palace. 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. The descendants of the Karaite Exilarchs have been referred to above. All they really succeed in doing is letting people know how self-centered and immature they are. Only with Aram-Damascus is he believed to have had strained relations, though the two kingdoms also shared an alliance for some years.[4]. Self-will of either variety, the violent kind or the peevish kind, can ruin a marriage. Ahab was allied by marriage with Jehoshaphat, who was king of Judah. Together they hid the child and his nurse for six years in the temple. According to "Gelilot Ere Yisrael" (quoted in "Seder ha-Dorot," i. Tell Him frankly that you would rather have your own way than be unselfish and considerate of others, but acknowledge that it is contrary to His Word. This is what the LORD says: 'Record this man as if he is childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime, for none of his offspring will prosper, none of them will sit on the throne of David or rule in Judah anymore.Jeremiah 22:30, NIV, Warren W. Wiersbe -The Wiersbe Bible Commentary: The Complete Old Testament - 2007 p. 1497 "Zerubbabel was the grandson of King Jehoiachin (Jeconiah, Matt.
was ahab a descendant of david
was ahab a descendant of david
was ahab a descendant of david