But the Septuagint adds that pigs also licked his blood, symbolically making him unclean to the Israelites, who abstained from pork. 28b; Tanna debe Eliyahu Rabba ix, Zua xxiv.). But like David, who recognized his sin, God restores repentant hearts. Ahab married Jezebel, the daughter of the King of Tyre. The incident started over a city east of Jordan called Ramoth-Gilead, which Ahab said belonged to Israel but was still in the hands of Syria. The highest official of Babylonian Jewry was the exilarch (Reish Galuta, "Head of the Diaspora"). 21:6). 22:17). 4 and 3 respectively; Identifying Biblical Persons in Northwest Semitic Inscriptions of 1200539 B.C.E. [4], The Battle of Qarqar is mentioned in extra-biblical records, and was perhaps at Apamea, where Shalmaneser III of Assyria fought a great confederation of princes from Cilicia, Northern Syria, Israel, Ammon, and the tribes of the Syrian desert (853 BCE), including Arabs, Ahab the Israelite (A-ha-ab-bu matSir-'a-la-a-a)[6] and Hadadezer (Adad-'idri).[4]. 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. The Tree of Jesse (a reference to David' father) is a traditional Christian artistic representation of Jesus' genealogical connection to David. Why didnt you stand up to him? one wife jeered when she heard of her husbands latest disagreement with the boss. Photo credit: GettyImages/Sviatlana Lazarenka. King David had been absent from the scene of Hebrew history for about 135 years when this story opens. You can unsubscribe at any time. Israel's Wicked Queen. . 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. By Mark Morgan 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. Why Does God Compare Our Relationship with Him to That of a Bride and Groom? When Athaliah heard the ruckus and saw the king standing by a pillar in the temple, she cried out, Treason! The Cross And Unjust Suffering (1 Peter 2:19-25), Living in Love: Secrets from Bible Marriages. The descendants of the Karaite Exilarchs have been referred to above. It is never easy to admit when we have sinned. The priest gave the captains the spears and shields that had belonged to King David. They formed a ring all around the young king Joash and put the royal crown on him. 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. Sanh. [44][45] The King David Legacy Center has seen support from Haredi Jews in Jerusalem. Ahab was allied by marriage with Jehoshaphat, who was king of Judah. In Judaism it is based on texts from the Hebrew Bible and through the succeeding centuries based on later traditions. [1 Kings 16:29] William F. Albright dated his reign to 869850 BC, while Edwin R. Thiele offered the dates 874853 BC. Although we may not have the physical carved idols that brought so much evil to Israel and Judah, idols of different kinds can creep into our lives. Baal was considered to be the god of the land. Even though we may not see a full picture of what He is accomplishing, we can always be confident He is faithful to His promises in all He does. Answer. Ahab was succeeded by his sons, Ahaziah and Jehoram. What clues help you recognize your rising self-will? I suppose everyone has a few relatives in their closet theyd like to keep the door shut on, but Joash came from a long line of notoriously wicked people. "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. Jehoidas son, Zechariah came before the king and confronted him about his actions. xi. [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. The king of Judah called Jehoahaz was also known as Shallum, a name he shared with an earlier king of Israel. He also served as emissary between Ahab and the prophet Elijah (1 Kings 18:1-16). He was a descendant of King David through Zerubbabel (1 Chronicles 3:21). Do you feel that your mate is infringing on any of your inviolable rights? As recorded in 2 Kings 9:30-34, Jehu had his servants throw Jezebel out of a window, causing her death. (John 14:17). So it was that the evil influence moved south. He gives wisdom. Ahab and Jezebel also had a daughter, Athaliah, and she married another man named Jehoram, the son of Jehoshaphat, king of the southern kingdom of Judah. [1], Ahab became king of Israel in the thirty-eighth year of King Asa of Judah, and reigned for twenty-two years, according to 1 Kings. 9. 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. 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. 22:52, 53). and more. Their indomitable self-will which has never been surrendered to God will seldom give in to those around them. For the survival of those around us, for the happiness of our mates and for harmony in our marriages, we must face up to every trace of stubborn self-will and claim Gods grace to deal with it. (1-11) Ahab's descendants are executed at Jezreel. 22:24, 28), and therefore of the royal line of David. Ahaziah king of Judah reigned for one year, while Ahaziah king of Israel reigned for two years. 1, 2). The people with whom Joash surrounded himself impacted the entire kingdom. In David's time, the capital probably served as little more than a formidable citadel, and the Davidic "kingdom" was most likely closer to a loosely-confederated regional polity,[19] albeit a relatively substantial one. But instead of wearing a crown and sitting on a throne, Zerubbabel was the humble governor of a ", Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi, Bihr al-Anwr, Dar Al-Rida Publication, Beirut, (1983), volume 30 page 99, Jehoram's reign in Israel saw three kings of Judah , 'Unambiguous' as Ahaziah's name on the Tel Dan Stele is incomplete, and there is no explicit confirmation that the apical ancestor David of, kings of Judah, along with the kings of Israel, Claim of the biblical descent of the Bagrationi dynasty, First Impression: What We Learn from King Ahaz's Seal, "Biblical King's seal discovered in dump site", King Hezekiah's Seal Bears Phoenician Imagery, 2,600-year old seal discovered in City of David, "Archaeology and the Biblical Narrative: The Case of the United Monarchy", "Journal 124: Khirbat Qeiyafa preliminary report", "Proof of King David? At Joashs command, Zechariah was stoned. Among the families of the "Sons of the Free" are the families of Abravanel and Benveniste. Gods mysterious ways simply confirm the fact that His thoughts and ways are higher than ours. Athaliah was the daughter of either king Omri, or of King Ahab and Queen Jezebel of Israel, the queen consort of Judah as the wife of King Jehoram, a descendant of King David, and later queen regnant 841-835 BCE. 21:7). But Ahabs self-will becomes even more evident in an incident involving the king and his vegetable garden. Jehoram/Joram had more than one wife (exact number unknown) (2 Chronicles 21:17). According to some Islamic sources, some of the Jewish settlers in Arabia were of the Davidic line, Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi recorded: "A Jewish man from the Davidic line entered Medina and found the people in deep sorrow. [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. Sidonians was another name for the Phoenicians, that seafaring people on the Mediterranean coast who occupied the great cities of Tyre and Sidon. Joash survived a massacre staving off a wicked plot that would have brought the Davidic throne to the edge of extinction. After Solomon's death, the ten northern tribes rejected the Davidic line, refusing to accept Solomon's son, Rehoboam, and instead chose Jeroboam as king and formed the northern Kingdom of Israel. Your throne shall be established forever 2 Sam 7:16 ESV. . During the reign of his grandmother, temple items were plundered for Baal worship. After Ahab's death, Jehu killed Jezebel (2 Kings 9) and all of Ahab's descendants (2 Kings 10). Two sons of Ahab and Jezebel later ruled in Israel. Whatever replaces Him is wrong. 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". But the story is not over. She slaughtered all the royal heirs, or so she thought. Soon after he immigrated to Israel in 1968, Rabbi Dayan buried his grandfather . Because you have forsaken theLord, he has forsaken you 2 Chronicles 24:20 ESV. 2 . 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. And the king listened to them (2 Chron. The Davidic line or House of David (Hebrew: , romanized: Beit David) refers to the lineage of the Israelite king David.In Judaism it is based on texts from the Hebrew Bible and through the succeeding centuries based on later traditions. 245) makes Micah an Ephraimite. King David and King Ahab . Listening bred temptation which birthed disobedience. 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. Joash's murderous grandmother, Athaliah was the daughter of the infamous Israelite pair, King Ahab and Jezebel. 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. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria, to the rulers of the city, 1 to the elders, and to q the guardians of the sons 2 of Ahab, saying, 2 "Now then, as soon as this letter comes to you, seeing your master's sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, fortified cities also, and . But it didnt work out quite like he planned. A descendant of Issachar: One of the sons of Izrahiah, a descendant of Issachar, was called Obadiah. 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. Of course, Ahab was just as self-willed as Jezebel, but with a different temperament. Enjoyed this article? Athaliah didn't kill over every single descendant of David, only the royal heirs who could have threatened her claim to the throne. God wants to break our sinful, stubborn wills. Athaliah ( Hebrew: , Modern: Atalya, Tiberian: aly, Greek: Gothola; Latin: Athalia) was the daughter of either king Omri, or of King Ahab and Queen Jezebel of Israel, the queen consort of Judah as the wife of King Jehoram, a descendant of King David, and later queen regnant c. 841-835 BCE. 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. And it slowly but surely eats away at our relationship. 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. 4. 1. Each of his seventy sons had an ivory palace built for him. We sometimes say with tongue in cheek, God works in mysterious ways. This was true for the boy-king Joash of the royal line of Judah. [34] Meir Perels traced the ancestry of Judah Loew ben Bezalel to the Hai Gaon through Judah Loew's alleged great-great-grandfather Judah Leib the Elder and therefore also from the Davidic dynasty; however, this claim is widely disputed, by many scholars such as Otto Muneles. [3], King Omri, Ahab's father and founder of the short-lived Omri dynasty, seems to have been a successful military leader; he is reported in the text of the Moabite Mesha Stele to have "oppressed Moab for many days." Though held up as a warning to sinners, Ahab is also described as displaying noble traits of character (Sanh. 21:5). Jewish Quarterly Review, hereafter "J. Q. R.", xv. Self-will of either variety, the violent kind or the peevish kind, can ruin a marriage. Descendants of the house of exilarchs were living in various places long after the office became extinct. 10). After the death of David's son, King Solomon, the ten northern tribes of the Kingdom of Israel rejected the Davidic line, refusing to accept Solomon's son, Rehoboam, and instead chose as king Jeroboam and formed the northern Kingdom of Israel. . Ahab is portrayed by Eduard Franz in the film Sins of Jezebel (1953). 24:17). Marriages to stubborn, willful people can bring unhappiness to all concerned. Jehu, the captain of Israels army, was to be the instrument of divine discipline in her case. If Athaliah his daughter had succeeded in her attempts to wipe out David's descendants them the Davidic covenant . - And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead. God only knows how many generations will be affected by our sinful self-will, our insistence on having things our way instead of Gods. She shouted abuses at Jehu from her upstairs window, but at Jehus command, several of her servants threw her down, and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall and on the horses, and he trampled her under foot (2 Kgs. The stele is dated to circa 840 BCE; however, the name of the Davidic king is not totally preserved, as much of the stele has not survived since the 9th century BCE. The Seder Olam Zutta attributes the office to Zerubbabel, a member of the Davidic line, who is mentioned as one of the leaders of the Jewish community in the 6th century BC, holding the title of Achaemenid Governor of Yehud Medinata. 9:26). In the Biblical text, Ahab has five important encounters with prophets: After some years, Ahab with Jehoshaphat of Judah went to recover Ramoth-Gilead from the Arameans. 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. He reigned for 22 years, from 930-909 BC. Abijah/Abijam had 14 wives (2 Chronicles 13:21). While Joash had godly influences around him, he chose wisely and served well. He was pastor of Emmanuel Faith Community Church in Escondido, CA from 1972 to 1993 when the Lord called him home. The dogs ate Jezebel's body, leaving nothing but her skull, her feet, and the palms of her hands, as prophesied by Elijah. Thus says God, Why do you break the commandments of theLord, so that you cannot prosper? According to "Gelilot Ere Yisrael" (quoted in "Seder ha-Dorot," i. 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. 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 owned it, they said, and he controlled its weather and the increase of its crops and cattle. God desires us to seek Him for the choices we make. The Cross And Christs Suffering For Sins (1 Peter 3:18-22), 6. 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. He was followed by Jehu who like Omri long before him, was a commander of the army. Jesus would come to establish His eternal kingdom and it would be through the line of David. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. God sent prophets to pull Joash back from sliding into the same sins as his forefathers committed. xv. The second son to reign was Jehoram. I have heard some say, I dont love her anymore. The prophets of Baal were slain and it looked as though the nation would turn back to God. He is also mentioned on the inscriptions of the Mesha Stele. God is faithful to do what He promises. Zechariahs reprimand didnt sit well with Joash. [2] Most recently, Michael Coogan has dated Ahab's reign to 871852 BC. 9:30). 30). Six were murdered by the oldest son Jehoram/Joram after he became king. Based on Luke Jesus will inherit David's throne, however, Jehoiakim descendants can Not sit on David's throne as he is cursed by God. . These two were self-willed to the end. %PDF-1.5 % 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. 'God is my close relative' (Pfeiffer, 1988: 40), owed much of his success to his father Ormi's efforts to set the Northern Kingdom on a firm political foundation. These offenses and atrocities stirred up populist resentment from figures such as Elijah and Micaiah. 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. i. Together they hid the child and his nurse for six years in the temple. After overthrowing king Ahab, Jehu killed Ahab's entire clan (II Kings 10:6-11). For one thing, he had willfully entered a marriage that was politically convenient, but contrary to every word from God. His plan was for Jesus to be heir to Davids throne. Ahab decided he wanted Naboths property, so he went to him and said, Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a vegetable garden because it is close beside my house, and I will give you a better vineyard than it in its place; if you like, I will give you the price of it in money (1 Kgs. So defiant in his apostasy was he that he had inscribed on all the doors of the city of Samaria the words, "Ahab hath abjured the living God of Israel." Squeak up! According to the Bible, David, of the Tribe of Judah, was the third king of the United Monarchy of Israel and Judah. 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. Thus Joash the king did not remember the kindness that Jehoiada, Zechariah's father, had shown him, but killed his son. The name Joash is not an uncommon Bible name. Jehoshaphat agreed, but wanted to consult the Lord first. Jezebel was fanatical about her religion. Omri is mentioned briefly and unfavourably in the Hebrew Bible (1 Kings 16; Micah 6:16). The Bible records his rise to power in 1 Kings 11:26-14:20. 5. endstream endobj 127 0 obj <. [29] The position holder was regarded as a king-in-waiting, residing in Babylonia in the Achaemenid Empire as well as during the classic era. Ahab (Hebrew: .mw-parser-output .script-hebrew,.mw-parser-output .script-Hebr{font-family:"SBL Hebrew","SBL BibLit","Taamey Ashkenaz","Taamey Frank CLM","Frank Ruehl CLM","Ezra SIL","Ezra SIL SR","Keter Aram Tsova","Taamey David CLM","Keter YG","Shofar","David CLM","Hadasim CLM","Simple CLM","Nachlieli",Cardo,Alef,"Noto Serif Hebrew","Noto Sans Hebrew","David Libre",David,"Times New Roman",Gisha,Arial,FreeSerif,FreeSans}, Modern:Aav, Tiberian:A; Akkadian: Abbu [a-a-ab-bu]; Koin Greek: Achab; Latin: Achab) was the seventh king of Israel, the son and successor of King Omri and the husband of Jezebel of Sidon, according to the Hebrew Bible. The Cross And Separation From The World (1 Peter 4:1-6), 7. Athaliah married King Joram, son of Judah's King Jehoshaphat. Rehoboam was the son of Naamah the Ammonitess (1 Kings 14:21, 31). 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.
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