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Tea Tephi, Queen of Ireland Daughter of The Kings of Judah

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First Generation

Tea Tephi Queen of Ireland, daughter of Zedekiah Last King of Judah, was born in Spain and died in Odhbha, Meath, Leinster, Ireland.
The Chronicles say:

Tephi born of the House of the High One, Princess of Zion, loved of The Lord, Home of the House of her God, daughter of David, Shepherd in Judah, Tribe of the Lion, Queen over Bethel, and Dan where they be scattered abroad.

Is not the word made sure, we are spread forth in alien places. Fire that was kindled burnst to the utter-most hell. Princes led captive to Baal. I even I am left to pry from the outtermost region, far off isles of the west, home of the remnant of Dan. Sewn as a thistle on earth, is Jacob. The name of us is legion. Tongue of the Hebrew fails. Tea-Tephi describing the dispersal of the Lost Tribes of Israel

Buried in the poetry and folk-lore of Ireland is the tale of a Prophet, an Egyptian Princess and Simon Brug (Baruch) a Scribe. They Landed in Ireland about the same time that the destruction of Jerusalem took place, bearing with them a great chest and a stone wrapped on a banner. The Princess married the Zarahite King, Eochaidh II. Ard-dath, Ard-righ, or Heremon, horse man of all Ireland.

It is claimed that with the Princess Tea Tephi, were brought to Ireland many priceless relics showing the Hebrew identity, and royal descent of her people; among them the “Jodham Morain” or priest breast plate; the harp of King David, “Sweet Singer of Israel”, and the famous Coronation Stone of the Kings of Ireland, Scotland, and England.

This Stone, tradition states, is the identical pillow upon which the head of Jacob rested at Bethel; that it was carried to Egypt by his sons, and became sacred in the eyes of his descendants.

It is called the Stone of “Fate” or “Fortune”, and is spoken of in the old records as “the ancientest respected monument in the world.”

Old Irish verse:

The praises of Tea Tephi are sung as:

“The Beautiful One with a Royal Prosperous Smile.”
“Tephi (Hebrew beautiful) the most beautiful that traversed the Plain.”
“Temor of Bregia, whence so called.”

Relate to me O learned Sages,
When was the place called Temor?
Was it in the time of Parthalon of battles?
Or at the first arrival of Caesaire?
Tell me in which of these invasions
Did the place have the name of Tea-mor?
O Tuan, O generous Finchadh,
O Dubhan, Ye venerable Five
Whence was acquired the name of Te-mor?
Until the coming of the agreeable Teah
The wife of Heremon of noble aspect.
A Rampart was raised around her house
For Teah the daughter of Lughaidh (God’s House)
She was buried outside in her mound
And from her it was named Tea-muir.
Cathair, Crofin not inapplicable.
Was its name among the Tuatha-de-Danaan
Until the coming of Tea – the Just
Wife of Heremon of the noble aspect?
A wall was raised around her house
For Tea the daughter of Lughaidh,
(And) she was interred in her wall outside,
So that from her is Tea-mor.
A habitation which was a Dun (Hebrew court) and a fortress
Which was the glory of murs without demolition,
On which the monument of Tea after her death,
So that it was an addition to her dowry.
The humble Heremon had
A woman in beautiful confinement
Who received from him everything she wished for.
He gave her whatever he promised,
Bregatea a meritorious abode
(Where lies) The grave, which is the great Mergech (Hebrew burial place)
The burial place which was not violated.
The daughter of Pharaoh of many champions
Tephi, the most beautiful that traversed the Plain.
She gave a name to her fair cahir,
The woman with the prosperous royal smile,
Mur-Tephi where the assembly met.
It is not a mystery to be said
A Mur (was raised) over Tephi I have heard.
Strength this, without contempt,
Which great proud Queen have formed
The length, breadth of the house of Tephi,
Sixty feet without weakness
As Prophets and Druids have seen.

From “Forward” – Watchman What of the Dawn

Tea married Héremón King of Munster, 2nd Monarch of Ireland, son of Milesius of Spain King of Braganza, Father of the Irish Race and Scota Tephi Princess of Egypt. Héremón was born in Braganza, Iberia or Spain and died in 1683 B.C. in Rath-Beothaight, Argat-Ross, Ireland.

Children:

i. Iarél Fáith 10th Monarch of Ireland (died in 1670 B.C. in Magh Muaagh, Galway, Connaught, Ireland)

Second Generation

Zedekiah Last King of Judah, son of Josiah King of Judah and Manutah, was born in Jerusalem, Palestine.
Babylon besieged Jerusalem and took the entire Nation of Judah captive to Babylon. The King of Judah was Zedekiah, from the Tribe of Judah and the Royal line from the House of David.

King Zedekiah’s sons were killed. King Zedekiah himself was taken captive to Babylon, with his eyes put out. Under Israelite Law, in the Book of Numbers, the inheritance goes to the daughters, if there are no male heirs. In this case, Zedekiah had two daughters. One was named Tea-Tephi, and the other daughter was named Tamar-Tephi. Both of these princesses were put in the guardianship of Jeremiah the Prophet.

God preserved the Royal Seed of David, by transporting the King’s Daughter to Ireland. The record of the Bard’s tell about the fact that they were taken to Egypt, and stayed in Egypt. While they were in Egypt, Jeremiah’s scribe went and sought a Ship so that they could leave, with the Mysterious, Sacred, and Holy Ark of the Covenant, and the King’s Daughters.

The records of the Bards in Ireland show, that when Jeremiah and the king’s daughters were in Egypt, they had in their possession, Jacob’s Pillar Stone, and the Mysterious, and Holy Sacred Ark of the Covenant.

Children:

i. Tea Tephi Queen of Ireland (born in Spain – , died in Odhbha, Meath, Leinster, Ireland)

Third Generation

Josiah King of Judah, son of Amon King of Judah and Jedidiah, was born in Jerusalem, Palestine and died in Hadadrimmon.
Josiah – healed by Jehovah, or Jehovah will support. The son of Amon, and his successor on the throne of Judah (2 Kings 22:1; 2 Chr. 34:1). His history is contained in 2 Kings 22, 23. He stands foremost among all the kings of the line of David for unswerving loyalty to Jehovah (23:25). He “did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in all the way of David his father.” He ascended the throne at the early age of eight years, and it appears that not till eight years afterwards did he begin “to seek after the God of David his father.” At that age he devoted himself to God. He distinguished himself by beginning a war of extermination against the prevailing idolatry, which had practically been the state religion for some seventy years (2 Chr. 34:3; comp. Jer. 25:3, 11, 29).

In the eighteenth year of his reign he proceeded to repair and beautify the temple, which by time and violence had become sorely dilapidated (2 Kings 22:3, 5, 6; 23:23; 2 Chr. 34:11). While this work was being carried on, Hilkiah, the high priest, discovered a roll, which was probably the original copy of the law, the entire Pentateuch, written by Moses.

When this book was read to him, the king was alarmed by the things it contained, and sent for Huldah, the “prophetess,” for her counsel. She spoke to him words of encouragement, telling him that he would be gathered to his fathers in peace before the threatened days of judgment came. Josiah immediately gathered the people together, and engaged them in a renewal of their ancient national covenant with God. The Passover was then celebrated, as in the days of his great predecessor, Hezekiah, with unusual magnificence. Nevertheless, “the Lord turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah” (2 Kings 22:3-20; 23:21-27; 2 Chr. 35:1-19). During the progress of this great religious revolution Jeremiah helped it on by his earnest exhortations.

Soon after this, Pharaoh-Necho II. (q.v.), king of Egypt, in an expedition against the king of Assyria, with the view of gaining possession of Carchemish, sought a passage through the territory of Judah for his army. This Josiah refused to permit. He had probably entered into some new alliance with the king of Assyria, and faithful to his word he sought to oppose the progress of Necho.

The army of Judah went out and encountered that of Egypt at Megiddo, on the verge of the plain of Esdraelon. Josiah went into the field in disguise, and was fatally wounded by a random arrow. His attendants conveyed him toward Jerusalem, but had only reached Hadadrimmon, a few miles south of Megiddo, when he died (2 Kings 23:28, 30; comp. 2 Chr. 35:20-27), after a reign of thirty-one years. He was buried with the greatest honours in fulfilment of Huldah’s prophecy (2 Kings 22:20; comp. Jer. 34:5). Jeremiah composed a funeral elegy on this the best of the kings of Israel (Lam. 4:20; 2 Chr. 35:25). The outburst of national grief on account of his death became proverbial (Zech. 12:11; comp. Rev. 16:16).

Josiah married Manutah.

Children:

i. Zedekiah Last King of Judah (born in Jerusalem, Palestine)

Manutah, was born in Jerusalem, Palestine.
Manutah married Josiah King of Judah.

Fourth Generation

Amon King of Judah, son of Manasseh King of Judah and Eshullemeth, was born in Jerusalem, Palestine.
The son of Manasseh, and fourteenth king of Judah. He restored idolatry, and set up the images which his father had cast down. Zephaniah (1:4; 3:4, 11) refers to the moral depravity prevailing in this king’s reign.

Amon married Jedidiah.

Children:

i. Josiah King of Judah (born in Jerusalem, Palestine – , died in Hadadrimmon)

9. Jedidiah, was born in Jerusalem, Palestine.
Jedidiah married Amon King of Judah.

Fifth Generation

Manasseh King of Judah , son of Hezekiah King of Judah and Hephzidah, was born in Jerusalem, Palestine.
Manasseh – who makes to forget. “God hath made me forget” (Heb. nashshani), Gen. 41:51. (1.) The elder of the two sons of Joseph. He and his brother Ephraim were afterwards adopted by Jacob as his own sons (48:1). There is an account of his marriage to a Syrian (1 Chr. 7:14); and the only thing afterwards recorded of him is, that his grandchildren were “brought up upon Joseph’s knees” (Gen. 50:23; R.V., “born upon Joseph’s knees”) i.e., were from their birth adopted by Joseph as his own children.

The tribe of Manasseh was associated with that of Ephraim and Benjamin during the wanderings in the wilderness. They encamped on the west side of the tabernacle. According to the census taken at Sinai, this tribe then numbered 32,200 (Num. 1:10, 35; 2:20, 21). Forty years afterwards its numbers had increased to 52,700 (26:34, 37), and it was at this time the most distinguished of all the tribes.

The half of this tribe, along with Reuben and Gad, had their territory assigned them by Moses on the east of the Jordan (Josh. 13:7-14); but it was left for Joshua to define the limits of each tribe. This territory on the east of Jordan was more valuable and of larger extent than all that was allotted to the nine and a half tribes in the land of Palestine. It is sometimes called “the land of Gilead,” and is also spoken of as “on the other side of Jordan.” The portion given to the half tribe of Manasseh was the largest on the east of Jordan. It embraced the whole of Bashan. It was bounded on the south by Mahanaim, and extended north to the foot of Lebanon. Argob, with its sixty cities, that “ocean of basaltic rocks and boulders tossed about in the wildest confusion,” lay in the midst of this territory.

The whole “land of Gilead” having been conquered, the two and a half tribes left their wives and families in the fortified cities there, and accompanied the other tribes across the Jordan, and took part with them in the wars of conquest. The allotment of the land having been completed, Joshua dismissed the two and a half tribes, commending them for their heroic service (Josh. 22:1-34). Thus dismissed, they returned over Jordan to their own inheritance. (See ED.)

On the west of Jordan the other half of the tribe of Manasseh was associated with Ephraim, and they had their portion in the very centre of Palestine, an area of about 1,300 square miles, the most valuable part of the whole country, abounding in springs of water. Manasseh’s portion was immediately to the north of that of Ephraim (Josh. 16). Thus the western Manasseh defended the passes of Esdraelon as the eastern kept the passes of the Hauran.

(2.) The only son and successor of Hezekiah on the throne of Judah. He was twelve years old when he began to reign (2 Kings 21:1), and he reigned fifty-five years (B.C. 698-643). Though he reigned so long, yet comparatively little is known of this king. His reign was a continuation of that of Ahaz, both in religion and national polity. He early fell under the influence of the heathen court circle, and his reign was characterized by a sad relapse into idolatry with all its vices, showing that the reformation under his father had been to a large extent only superficial (Isa. 7:10; 2 Kings 21:10-15). A systematic and persistent attempt was made, and all too successfully, to banish the worship of Jehovah out of the land. Amid this wide-spread idolatry there were not wanting, however, faithful prophets (Isaiah, Micah) who lifted up their voice in reproof and in warning. But their fidelity only aroused bitter hatred, and a period of cruel persecution against all the friends of the old religion began. “The days of Alva in Holland, of Charles IX. in France, or of the Covenanters under Charles II. in Scotland, were anticipated in the Jewish capital. The streets were red with blood.” There is an old Jewish tradition that Isaiah was put to death at this time (2 Kings 21:16; 24:3, 4; Jer. 2:30), having been sawn asunder in the trunk of a tree. Psalms 49, 73, 77, 140, and 141 seem to express the feelings of the pious amid the fiery trials of this great persecution. Manasseh has been called the “Nero of Palestine.”

Esarhaddon, Sennacherib’s successor on the Assyrian throne, who had his residence in Babylon for thirteen years (the only Assyrian monarch who ever reigned in Babylon), took Manasseh prisoner (B.C. 681) to Babylon. Such captive kings were usually treated with great cruelty. They were brought before the conqueror with a hook or ring passed through their lips or their jaws, having a cord attached to it, by which they were led. This is referred to in 2 Chr. 33:11, where the Authorized Version reads that Esarhaddon “took Manasseh among the thorns;” while the Revised Version renders the words, “took Manasseh in chains;” or literally, as in the margin, “with hooks.” (Comp. 2 Kings 19:28.)

The severity of Manasseh’s imprisonment brought him to repentance. God heard his cry, and he was restored to his kingdom (2 Chr. 33:11-13). He abandoned his idolatrous ways, and enjoined the people to worship Jehovah; but there was no thorough reformation. After a lengthened reign extending through fifty-five years, the longest in the history of Judah, he died, and was buried in the garden of Uzza, the “garden of his own house” (2 Kings 21:17, 18; 2 Chr. 33:20), and not in the city of David, among his ancestors. He was succeeded by his son Amon.

In Judg. 18:30 the correct reading is “Moses,” and not “Manasseh.” The name “Manasseh” is supposed to have been introduced by some transcriber to avoid the scandal of naming the grandson of Moses the great lawgiver as the founder of an idolatrous religion.

Manasseh married Eshullemeth.

Children:

i. Amon King of Judah (born in Jerusalem, Palestine)

Eshullemeth , was born in Jerusalem, Palestine.
Eshullemeth married Manasseh King of Judah.

Sixth Generation

Hezekiah King of Judah , son of Ahaz King of Judah and Adi, was born in Jerusalem,Palestine.
Hezekiah – whom Jehovah has strengthened. (1.) Son of Ahaz (2 Kings 18:1; 2 Chr. 29:1), whom he succeeded on the throne of the kingdom of Judah. He reigned twenty-nine years (B.C. 726-697). The history of this king is contained in 2 Kings 18:20, Isa. 36-39, and 2 Chr. 29-32. He is spoken of as a great and good king. In public life he followed the example of his great-granfather Uzziah. He set himself to abolish idolatry from his kingdom, and among other things which he did for this end, he destroyed the “brazen serpent,” which had been removed to Jerusalem, and had become an object of idolatrous worship (Num. 21:9). A great reformation was wrought in the kingdom of Judah in his day (2 Kings 18:4; 2 Chr. 29:3-36).

On the death of Sargon and the accession of his son Sennacherib to the throne of Assyria, Hezekiah refused to pay the tribute which his father had paid, and “rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not,” but entered into a league with Egypt (Isa. 30; 31; 36:6-9). This led to the invasion of Judah by Sennacherib (2 Kings 18:13-16), who took forty cities, and besieged Jerusalem with mounds. Hezekiah yielded to the demands of the Assyrian king, and agreed to pay him three hundred talents of silver and thirty of gold (18:14).

But Sennacherib dealt treacherously with Hezekiah (Isa. 33:1), and a second time within two years invaded his kingdom (2 Kings 18:17; 2 Chr. 32:9; Isa. 36). This invasion issued in the destruction of Sennacherib’s army. Hezekiah prayed to God, and “that night the angel of the Lord went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians 185,000 men.” Sennacherib fled with the shattered remnant of his forces to Nineveh, where, seventeen years after, he was assassinated by his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer (2 Kings 19:37).

Hezekiah married Hephzidah.

Children:

i. Manasseh King of Judah (born in Jerusalem,Palestine)

Hephzidah
Hephzidah married Hezekiah King of Judah.

Seventh Generation

Ahaz King of Judah , son of Jotham King of Judah and Unknown, was born in Jerusalem,Palestine.
The son and successor of Jotham, king of Judah (2 Kings 16; Isa. 7-9; 2 Chr. 28). He gave himself up to a life of wickedness and idolatry. Notwithstanding the remonstrances and warnings of Isaiah, Hosea, and Micah, he appealed for help against Rezin, king of Damascus, and Pekah, king of Israel, who threatened Jerusalem, to Tiglath-pileser, the king of Assyria, to the great injury of his kingdom and his own humilating subjection to the Assyrians (2 Kings 16:7, 9; 15:29). He also introduced among his people many heathen and idolatrous customs (Isa. 8:19; 38:8; 2 Kings 23:12). He died at the age of thirty-five years, after reigning sixteen years (B.C. 740-724), and was succeeded by his son Hezekiah. Because of his wickedness he was “not brought into the sepulchre of the kings.”

Ahaz married Adi.

Children:

i. Hezekiah King of Judah (born in Jerusalem, Palestine)

Adi
Adi married Ahaz King of Judah.

Eighth Generation

Jotham King of Judah, son of Uzziah King of Judah and Jerisha, was born in Jerusalem, Palestine.
Children:

i. Ahaz King of Judah (born in Jerusalem, Palestine)

Ninth Generation

Uzziah King of Judah, son of Amaziah Eighth King of Judah and Jecholiah, was born in Jerusalem, Palestine.
Uzziah – a contracted form of Azari’ah the Lord is my strength. (1.) One of Amaziah’s sons, whom the people made king of Judah in his father’s stead (2 Kings 14:21; 2 Chr. 26:1). His long reign of about fifty-two years was “the most prosperous excepting that of Jehosaphat since the time of Solomon.” He was a vigorous and able ruler, and “his name spread abroad, even to the entering in of Egypt” (2 Chr. 26:8, 14). In the earlier part of his reign, under the influence of Zechariah, he was faithful to Jehovah, and “did that which was right in the sight of the Lord” (2 Kings 15:3; 2 Chr. 26:4, 5); but toward the close of his long life “his heart was lifted up to his destruction,” and he wantonly invaded the priest’s office (2 Chr. 26:16), and entering the sanctuary proceeded to offer incense on the golden altar. Azariah the high priest saw the tendency of such a daring act on the part of the king, and with a band of eighty priests he withstood him (2 Chr. 26:17), saying, “It appertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense.” Uzziah was suddenly struck with leprosy while in the act of offering incense (26:19-21), and he was driven from the temple and compelled to reside in “a several house” to the day of his death (2 Kings 15:5, 27; 2 Chr. 26:3). He was buried in a separate grave “in the field of the burial which belonged to the kings” (2 Kings 15:7; 2 Chr. 26:23). “That lonely grave in the royal necropolis would eloquently testify to coming generations that all earthly monarchy must bow before the inviolable order of the divine will, and that no interference could be tolerated with that unfolding of the purposes of God, which, in the fulness of time, would reveal the Christ, the true High Priest and King for evermore” (Dr. Green’s Kingdom of Israel, etc.).

Uzziah married Jerisha.

Children:

i. Jotham King of Judah (born in Jerusalem, Palestine)

Jerisha, was born in Jerusalem, Palestine.
Jerisha married Uzziah King of Judah.

Tenth Generation

Amaziah Eighth King of Judah, son of Joash King of Israel and Jehoaddan of Jerusalem, was born in Jerusalem, Palestine died in Lachish, and was buried in Jerusalem, in the royal sepulchre.
The son and successor of Joash, and eighth king of the separate kingdom of Judah (2 Kings 14:1-4). He began his reign by punishing the murderers of his father (5-7; 2 Chr. 25:3-5). He was the first to employ a mercenary army of 100,000 Israelite soldiers, which he did in his attempt to bring the Edomites again under the yoke of Judah (2 Chr. 25:5, 6). He was commanded by a prophet of the Lord to send back the mercenaries, which he did (2 Chr. 25:7-10, 13), much to their annoyance. His obedience to this command was followed by a decisive victory over the Edomites (2 Chr. 25:14-16). Amaziah began to worship some of the idols he took from the Edomites, and this was his ruin, for he was vanquished by Joash, king of Israel, whom he challenged to battle. The disaster he thus brought upon Judah by his infatuation in proclaiming war against Israel probably occasioned the conspiracy by which he lost his life (2 Kings 14:8-14, 19). He was slain at Lachish, whither he had fled, and his body was brought upon horses to Jerusalem, where it was buried in the royal sepulchre (2 Kings 14:19, 20; 2 Chr. 25:27, 28).

Amaziah married Jecholiah.

Children:

i. Uzziah King of Judah (born in Jerusalem, Palestine)

Jecholiah , was born in Jerusalem,Palestine.
Jecoliah – able through Jehovah, the wife of King Amaziah, and mother of King Uzziah (2 Chr. 26:3).

Jecholiah married Ahimaaz High Priest, son of Zadok High Priest at the time of David and Solomon and Unknown. Ahimaaz was born in Jerusalem,Palestine, died in Lachish, and was buried in Jerusalem,Palestine.

Children:

i. Azariah High Priest (born in Jerusalem,Palestine – died in Jerusalem, Palestine)

Jecholiah next married Amaziah Eighth King of Judah.

Eleventh Generation

Joash King of Israel , son of Ahaziah Sixth King of Judah and Zibiah of Beersheba, was born in Israel, Northern Kingdom.
King of Israel (2 Kings 13:9, 12, 13, 25).

Joash married Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.

Children:

i. Amaziah Eighth King of Judah (born in Jerusalem, Palestine – died in Lachish)

Jehoaddan of Jerusalem , was born in Israel,Northern Kingdom.
Jehoaddan married Joash King of Israel.

Twelfth Generation

Ahaziah Sixth King of Judah , son of Jehoram King of Judah and Athalia, was born in Israel, Northern Kingdom.
The son of Joram, or Jehoram, and sixth king of Judah. Called Jehoahaz (2 Chr. 21:17; 25:23), and Azariah (2 Chr. 22:6). Guided by his idolatrous mother Athaliah, his reign was disastrous (2 Kings 8:24-29; 9:29). He joined his uncle Jehoram, king of Israel, in an expedition against Hazael, king of Damascus; but was wounded at the pass of Gur when attempting to escape, and had strength only to reach Megiddo, where he died (2 Kings 9:22-28). He reigned only one year.

Ahaziah married Zibiah of Beersheba.

Children:

i. Joash King of Israel (born in Israel, Northern Kingdom)

Zibiah of Beersheba , was born in Israel, Northern Kingdom.
Zibiah – the mother of King Joash (2 Kings 12:1; 2 Chr. 24:1).

Zibiah married Ahaziah Sixth King of Judah.

Thirteenth Generation

Jehoram King of Judah , son of Jehoshaphat King of Judah, was born in Jerusalem, Palestine.
The eldest son and successor of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah. He reigned eight years (B.C. 892-885) alone as king of Judah, having been previously for some years associated with his father (2 Chr. 21:5, 20; 2 Kings 8:16). His wife was Athaliah, the daughter of Ahab and Jezebel. His daughter Jehosheba was married to the high priest Jehoiada. He sank into gross idolatry, and brought upon himself and his kingdom the anger of Jehovah. The Edomites revolted from under his yoke, and the Philistines and the Arabians and Cushites invaded the land, and carried away great spoil, along with Jehoram’s wives and all his children, except Ahaziah. He died a painful death from a fearful malady, and was refused a place in the sepulchre of the kings (2 Kings 8:16-24; 2 Chr. 21).

Jehoram married Athalia.

Children:

i. Ahaziah Sixth King of Judah (born in Israel,Northern Kingdom)

Athalia , was born in Jerusalem,Palestine.
Athaliah – whom God afflicts. (1.) The daughter of Ahab and Jezebel, and the wife of Jehoram, king of Judah (2 Kings 8:18), who “walked in the ways of the house of Ahab” (2 Chr. 21:6), called “daughter” of Omri (2 Kings 8:26). On the death of her husband and of her son Ahaziah, she resolved to seat herself on the vacant throne. She slew all Ahaziah’s children except Joash, the youngest (2 Kings 11:1,2). After a reign of six years she was put to death in an insurrection (2 Kings 11:20; 2 Chr. 21:6; 22:10-12; 23:15), stirred up among the people in connection with Josiah’s being crowned as king.

Athalia married Jehoram King of Judah.

Fourteenth Generation

Jehoshaphat King of Judah, son of Asa King of Judah and Azubah, was born in Jerusalem, Palestine.
The son and successor of Asa, king of Judah. After fortifying his kingdom against Israel (2 Chr. 17:1, 2), he set himself to cleanse the land of idolatry (1 Kings 22:43). In the third year of his reign he sent out priests and Levites over the land to instruct the people in the law (2 Chr. 17:7-9). He enjoyed a great measure of peace and prosperity, the blessing of God resting on the people “in their basket and their store.”

The great mistake of his reign was his entering into an alliance with Ahab, the king of Israel, which involved him in much disgrace, and brought disaster on his kingdom (1 Kings 22:1-33). Escaping from the bloody battle of Ramoth-gilead, the prophet Jehu (2 Chr. 19:1-3) reproached him for the course he had been pursuing, whereupon he entered with rigour on his former course of opposition to all idolatry, and of deepening interest in the worship of God and in the righteous government of the people (2 Chr. 19:4-11).

Again he entered into an alliance with Ahaziah, the king of Israel, for the purpose of carrying on maritime commerce with Ophir. But the fleet that was then equipped at Ezion-gaber was speedily wrecked. A new fleet was fitted out without the co-operation of the king of Israel, and although it was successful, the trade was not prosecuted (2 Chr. 20:35-37; 1 Kings 22:48-49).

He subsequently joined Jehoram, king of Israel, in a war against the Moabites, who were under tribute to Israel. This war was successful. The Moabites were subdued; but the dreadful act of Mesha in offering his own son a sacrifice on the walls of Kir-haresheth in the sight of the armies of Israel filled him with horror, and he withdrew and returned to his own land (2 Kings 3:4-27).

The last most notable event of his reign was that recorded in 2 Chr. 20. The Moabites formed a great and powerful confederacy with the surrounding nations, and came against Jehoshaphat. The allied forces were encamped at Engedi. The king and his people were filled with alarm, and betook themselves to God in prayer. The king prayed in the court of the temple, “O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us.” Amid the silence that followed, the voice of Jahaziel the Levite was heard announcing that on the morrow all this great host would be overthrown. So it was, for they quarrelled among themselves, and slew one another, leaving to the people of Judah only to gather the rich spoils of the slain. This was recognized as a great deliverance wrought for them by God (B.C. 890). Soon after this Jehoshaphat died, after a reign of twenty-five years, being sixty years of age, and was succeeded by his son Jehoram (1 Kings 22:50). He had this testimony, that “he sought the Lord with all his heart” (2 Chr. 22:9). The kingdom of Judah was never more prosperous than under his reign.

Children:

i. Jehoram King of Judah (born in Jerusalem, Palestine)

Fifteenth Generation

Asa King of Judah , son of Abijah King of Judah, was born in Jerusalem, Palestine.
Asa married Azubah.

Children:

i. Jehoshaphat King of Judah (born in Jerusalem, Palestine)

Azubah , daughter of Shilhi and Unknown, was born in Jerusalem, Palestine.
The daughter of Shilhi, and mother of king Jehoshaphat (1 Kings 22:42).

Azubah married Asa King of Judah.

Sixteenth Generation

Abijah King of Judah, son of Rehoboam First King of Judah and Maachiah Daughter of Ureil of Gibeah, was born in Jerusalem, Palestine.
The son of Rehoboam, whom he succeeded on the throne of Judah (1 Chr. 3:10). He is also called Abijam (1 Kings 14:31; 15:1-8). He began his three years’ reign (2 Chr. 12:16; 13:1,2) with a strenuous but unsuccessful effort to bring back the ten tribes to their allegiance. His address to “Jeroboam and all Israel,” before encountering them in battle, is worthy of being specially noticed (2 Chr. 13:5-12). It was a very bloody battle, no fewer than 500,000 of the army of Israel having perished on the field. He is described as having walked “in all the sins of his father” (1 Kings 15:3; 2 Chr. 11:20-22). It is said in 1 Kings 15:2 that “his mother’s name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom;” but in 2 Chr. 13:2 we read, “his mother’s name was Michaiah, the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah.” The explanation is that Maachah is just a variation of the name Michaiah, and that Abishalom is probably the same as Absalom, the son of David. It is probable that “Uriel of Gibeah” married Tamar, the daughter of Absalom (2 Sam. 14:27), and by her had Maachah. The word “daughter” in 1 Kings 15:2 will thus, as it frequently elsewhere does, mean grand-daughter.

Children:

i. Asa King of Judah (born in Jerusalem, Palestine)

Shilhi , was born in Jerusalem,Palestine.
Children:

i. Azubah (born in Jerusalem,Palestine)

Seventeenth Generation

Rehoboam First King of Judah, son of Solomon King of Israel & Judah and Naamah “the Ammonitess”, was born in Jerusalem, Palestine.
Rehoboam married Maachiah Daughter of Ureil of Gibeah.

Children:

i. Abijah King of Judah (born in Jerusalem, Palestine)

Maachiah Daughter of Ureil of Gibeah , daughter of Ureil of Gibeah, was born in Jerusalem, Palestine.
Maachiah married Rehoboam First King of Judah.

Eighteenth Generation

Solomon King of Israel & Judah, son of David King of Judah and Bathsheba Widow of Uriah the Hittite, was born in Jerusalem, Palestine and died about 930 B.C.
Solomon – peaceful, (Heb. Shelomoh), David’s second son by Bathsheba, i.e., the first after their legal marriage (2 Sam. 12). He was probably born about B.C. 1035 (1 Chr. 22:5; 29:1). He succeeded his father on the throne in early manhood, probably about sixteen or eighteen years of age. Nathan, to whom his education was intrusted, called him Jedidiah, i.e., “beloved of the Lord” (2 Sam. 12:24, 25). He was the first king of Israel “born in the purple.” His father chose him as his successor, passing over the claims of his elder sons: “Assuredly Solomon my son shall reign after me.” His history is recorded in 1 Kings 1-11 and 2 Chr. 1-9. His elevation to the throne took place before his father’s death, and was hastened on mainly by Nathan and Bathsheba, in consequence of the rebellion of Adonijah (1 Kings 1:5-40). During his long reign of forty years the Hebrew monarchy gained its highest splendour. This period has well been called the “Augustan age” of the Jewish annals. The first half of his reign was, however, by far the brighter and more prosperous; the latter half was clouded by the idolatries into which he fell, mainly from his heathen intermarriages (1 Kings 11:1-8; 14:21, 31).

Before his death David gave parting instructions to his son (1 Kings 2:1-9; 1 Chr. 22:7-16; 28). As soon as he had settled himself in his kingdom, and arranged the affairs of his extensive empire, he entered into an alliance with Egypt by the marriage of the daughter of Pharaoh (1 Kings 3:1), of whom, however, nothing further is recorded. He surrounded himself with all the luxuries and the external grandeur of an Eastern monarch, and his government prospered. He entered into an alliance with Hiram, king of Tyre, who in many ways greatly assisted him in his numerous undertakings.

For some years before his death David was engaged in the active work of collecting materials (1 Chr. 29:6-9; 2 Chr. 2:3-7) for building a temple in Jerusalem as a permanent abode for the ark of the covenant. He was not permitted to build the house of God (1 Chr. 22:8); that honour was reserved to his son Solomon.

After the completion of the temple, Solomon engaged in the erection of many other buildings of importance in Jerusalem and in other parts of his kingdom. For the long space of thirteen years he was engaged in the erection of a royal palace on Ophel (1 Kings 7:1-12). It was 100 cubits long, 50 broad, and 30 high. Its lofty roof was supported by forty-five cedar pillars, so that the hall was like a forest of cedar wood, and hence probably it received the name of “The House of the Forest of Lebanon.” In front of this “house” was another building, which was called the Porch of Pillars, and in front of this again was the “Hall of Judgment,” or Throne-room (1 Kings 7:7; 10:18-20; 2 Chr. 9:17-19), “the King’s Gate,” where he administered justice and gave audience to his people. This palace was a building of great magnificence and beauty. A portion of it was set apart as the residence of the queen consort, the daughter of Pharaoh. From the palace there was a private staircase of red and scented sandal wood which led up to the temple.

Solomon also constructed great works for the purpose of securing a plentiful supply of water for the city (Eccl. 2:4-6). He then built Millo (LXX., “Acra”) for the defence of the city, completing a line of ramparts around it (1 Kings 9:15, 24; 11:27). He erected also many other fortifications for the defence of his kingdom at various points where it was exposed to the assault of enemies (1 Kings 9:15-19; 2 Chr. 8:2-6). Among his great undertakings must also be mentioned the building of Tadmor (q.v.) in the wilderness as a commercial depot, as well as a military outpost.

During his reign Palestine enjoyed great commercial prosperity. Extensive traffic was carried on by land with Tyre and Egypt and Arabia, and by sea with Spain and India and the coasts of Africa, by which Solomon accumulated vast stores of wealth and of the produce of all nations (1 Kings 9:26-28; 10:11, 12; 2 Chr. 8:17, 18; 9:21). This was the “golden age” of Israel. The royal magnificence and splendour of Solomon’s court were unrivalled. He had seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines, an evidence at once of his pride, his wealth, and his sensuality. The maintenance of his household involved immense expenditure. The provision required for one day was “thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal, ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallow-deer, and fatted fowl” (1 Kings 4:22, 23).

Solomon’s reign was not only a period of great material prosperity, but was equally remarkable for its intellectual activity. He was the leader of his people also in this uprising amongst them of new intellectual life. “He spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five. And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes” (1 Kings 4:32, 33).

His fame was spread abroad through all lands, and men came from far and near “to hear the wisdom of Solomon.” Among others thus attracted to Jerusalem was “the queen of the south” (Matt. 12:42), the queen of Sheba, a country in Arabia Felix. “Deep, indeed, must have been her yearning, and great his fame, which induced a secluded Arabian queen to break through the immemorial custom of her dreamy land, and to put forth the energy required for braving the burdens and perils of so long a journey across a wilderness. Yet this she undertook, and carried it out with safety.” (1 Kings 10:1-13; 2 Chr. 9:1-12.) She was filled with amazement by all she saw and heard: “there was no more spirit in her.” After an interchange of presents she returned to her native land.

But that golden age of Jewish history passed away. The bright day of Solomon’s glory ended in clouds and darkness. His decline and fall from his high estate is a sad record. Chief among the causes of his decline were his polygamy and his great wealth. “As he grew older he spent more of his time among his favourites. The idle king living among these idle women, for 1,000 women, with all their idle and mischievous attendants, filled the palaces and pleasure-houses which he had built (1 Kings 11:3), learned first to tolerate and then to imitate their heathenish ways. He did not, indeed, cease to believe in the God of Israel with his mind. He did not cease to offer the usual sacrifices in the temple at the great feasts. But his heart was not right with God; his worship became merely formal; his soul, left empty by the dying out of true religious fervour, sought to be filled with any religious excitement which offered itself. Now for the first time a worship was publicly set up amongst the people of the Lord which was not simply irregular or forbidden, like that of Gideon (Judg. 8:27), or the Danites (Judg. 18:30, 31), but was downright idolatrous.” (1 Kings 11:7; 2 Kings 23:13.)

This brought upon him the divine displeasure. His enemies prevailed against him (1 Kings 11:14-22, 23-25, 26-40), and one judgment after another fell upon the land. And now the end of all came, and he died, after a reign of forty years, and was buried in the city of David, and “with him was buried the short-lived glory and unity of Israel.” “He leaves behind him but one weak and worthless son, to dismember his kingdom and disgrace his name.”

“The kingdom of Solomon,” says Rawlinson, “is one of the most striking facts in the Biblical history. A petty nation, which for hundreds of years has with difficulty maintained a separate existence in the midst of warlike tribes, each of which has in turn exercised dominion over it and oppressed it, is suddenly raised by the genius of a soldier-monarch to glory and greatness. An empire is established which extends from the Euphrates to the borders of Egypt, a distance of 450 miles; and this empire, rapidly constructed, enters almost immediately on a period of peace which lasts for half a century. Wealth, grandeur, architectural magnificence, artistic excellence, commercial enterprise, a position of dignity among the great nations of the earth, are enjoyed during this space, at the end of which there is a sudden collapse. The ruling nation is split in twain, the subject-races fall off, the pre-eminence lately gained being wholly lost, the scene of struggle, strife, oppression, recovery, inglorious submission, and desperate effort, re-commences.”, Historical Illustrations.

Solomon married Naamah “the Ammonitess”.

Children:

i. Rehoboam First King of Judah (born in Jerusalem, Palestine)

Naamah “the Ammonitess”, was born in Jerusalem, Palestine.
The daughter of the king of Ammon, one of the wives of Solomon, the only one who appears to have borne him a son, viz., Rehoboam (1 Kings 14:21, 31).

Naamah married Solomon King of Israel & Judah.

Ureil of Gibeah, was born in Jerusalem,Palestine.
Children:

i. Maachiah Daughter of Ureil of Gibeah (born in Jerusalem, Palestine)

Nineteenth Generation

David King of Judah, son of Jesse and Habliar of the Judahites, was born about 1032 B.C. in Bethlehem-Judah and died in 1015 B.C.
David – beloved, the eighth and youngest son of Jesse, a citizen of Bethlehem. His father seems to have been a man in humble life. His mother’s name is not recorded. Some think she was the Nahash of 2 Sam. 17:25. As to his personal appearance, we only know that he was red-haired, with beautiful eyes and a fair face (1 Sam. 16:12; 17:42).

His early occupation was that of tending his father’s sheep on the uplands of Judah. From what we know of his after history, doubtless he frequently beguiled his time, when thus engaged, with his shepherd’s flute, while he drank in the many lessons taught him by the varied scenes spread around him. His first recorded exploits were his encounters with the wild beasts of the field. He mentions that with his own unaided hand he slew a lion and also a bear, when they came out against his flock, beating them to death in open conflict with his club (1 Sam. 17:34, 35).

While David, in the freshness of ruddy youth, was thus engaged with his flocks, Samuel paid an unexpected visit to Bethlehem, having been guided thither by divine direction (1 Sam. 16:1-13). There he offered up sacrifice, and called the elders of Israel and Jesse’s family to the sacrificial meal. Among all who appeared before him he failed to discover the one he sought. David was sent for, and the prophet immediately recognized him as the chosen of God, chosen to succeed Saul, who was now departing from the ways of God, on the throne of the kingdom. He accordingly, in anticipation, poured on his head the anointing oil. David went back again to his shepherd life, but “the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward,” and “the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul” (1 Sam. 16:13, 14).

Not long after this David was sent for to soothe with his harp the troubled spirit of Saul, who suffered from a strange melancholy dejection. He played before the king so skilfully that Saul was greatly cheered, and began to entertain great affection for the young shepherd. After this he went home to Bethlehem. But he soon again came into prominence. The armies of the Philistines and of Israel were in battle array in the valley of Elah, some 16 miles south-west of Bethlehem; and David was sent by his father with provisions for his three brothers, who were then fighting on the side of the king. On his arrival in the camp of Israel, David (now about twenty years of age) was made aware of the state of matters when the champion of the Philistines, Goliath of Gath, came forth to defy Israel. David took his sling, and with a well-trained aim threw a stone “out of the brook,” which struck the giant’s forehead, so that he fell senseless to the ground. David then ran and slew him, and cut off his head with his own sword (1 Sam. 17). The result was a great victory to the Israelites, who pursued the Philistines to the gates of Gath and Ekron.

David’s popularity consequent on this heroic exploit awakened Saul’s jealousy (1 Sam. 18:6-16), which he showed in various ways. He conceived a bitter hatred toward him, and by various stratagems sought his death (1 Sam. 18-30). The deep-laid plots of the enraged king, who could not fail to observe that David “prospered exceedingly,” all proved futile, and only endeared the young hero the more to the people, and very specially to Jonathan, Saul’s son, between whom and David a life-long warm friendship was formed.

A fugitive. To escape from the vengeance of Saul, David fled to Ramah (1 Sam. 19:12-18) to Samuel, who received him, and he dwelt among the sons of the prophets, who were there under Samuel’s training. It is supposed by some that the sixth, seventh, and eleventh Psalms were composed by him at this time. This place was only 3 miles from the residence of Saul, who soon discovered whither the fugitive had gone, and tried ineffectually to bring him back. Jonathan made a fruitless effort to bring his father to a better state of mind toward David (1 Sam. 20), who, being made aware of the fact, saw no hope of safety but in flight to a distance. We accordingly find him first at Nob (21:1-9) and then at Gath, the chief city of the Philistines. The king of the Philistines would not admit him into his service, as he expected that he would, and David accordingly now betook himself to the stronghold of Adullam (22:1-4; 1 Chr. 12:8-18). Here in a short time 400 men gathered around him and acknowledged him as their leader. It was at this time that David, amid the harassment and perils of his position, cried, “Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem;” when three of his heroes broke through the lines of the Philistines and brought him the water for which he longed (2 Sam. 23:13-17), but which he would not drink.

In his rage at the failure of all his efforts to seize David, Saul gave orders for the massacre of the entire priestly family at Nob, “persons who wore a linen ephod”, to the number of eighty-five persons, who were put to death by Doeg the Edomite. The sad tidings of the massacre were brought to David by Abiathar, a son of Ahimelech, the only one who escaped. Comp. Ps. 52.

Hearing that Keilah, a town on the western frontier, was harassed by the Philistines, David with his men relieved it (1 Sam. 23:1-14); and then, for fear of Saul, he fled to the strongholds in the “hill country” of Judah. Comp. Ps. 31. While encamped there, in the forest in the district of Ziph, he was visited by Jonathan, who spoke to him words of encouragement (23:16-18). The two now parted never to meet again. Saul continued his pursuit of David, who narrowly escaped from him at this time, and fled to the crags and ravines of Engedi, on the western shore of the Dead Sea (1 Sam. 23:29). Here Saul, who still pursued him with his army, narrowly escaped, through the generous forbearance of David, and was greatly affected by what David had done for him. He returned home from pursuing him, and David betook himself to Maon, where, with his 600 men, he maintained himself by contributions gathered from the district. Here occurred the incident connected with Nabal and his wife Abigail (1 Sam. 25), whom David married after Nabal’s death.

Saul again went forth (1 Sam. 26) in pursuit of David, who had hid himself “in the hill Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon,” in the wilderness of Ziph, and was a second time spared through his forbearance. He returned home, professing shame and penitence for the way in which he had treated David, and predicting his elevation to the throne.

Fighting against Israel. Harassed by the necessity of moving from place to place through fear of Saul, David once more sought refuge among the Philistines (1 Sam. 27). He was welcomed by the king, who assigned him Ziklag as his residence. Here David lived among his followers for some time as an independent chief engaged in frequent war with the Amalekites and other tribes on the south of Judah.

Achish summoned David with his men to join his army against Saul; but the lords of the Philistines were suspicious of David’s loyalty, and therefore he was sent back to Ziklag, which he found to his dismay may had been pillaged and burnt during his brief absence. David pursued after the raiders, the Amalekites, and completely routed them. On his return to Ziklag tidings reached him of Saul’s death (2 Sam. 1). An Amalekite brought Saul’s crown and bracelet and laid them at his feet. David and his men rent their clothes and mourned for Saul, who had been defeated in battle near Mount Gilboa. David composed a beautiful elegy, the most beautiful of all extant Hebrew odes, a “lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son” (2 Sam. 1:18-27). It bore the title of “The Bow,” and was to be taught to the children, that the memory of Saul and Jonathan might be preserved among them. “Behold, it is written in the book of Jasher” (q.v.).

David king over Judah. David and his men now set out for Hebron under divine direction (2 Sam. 2:1-4). There they were cordially welcomed, and he was at once anointed as king. He was now about thirty years of age.

But his title to the throne was not undisputed. Abner took Ish-bosheth, Saul’s only remaining son, over the Jordan to Mahanaim, and there crowned him as king. Then began a civil war in Israel. The first encounter between the two opposing armies, led on the one side by Abner, and on the other by Joab, took place at the pool of Gibeon. It resulted in the defeat of Abner. Other encounters, however, between Israel and Judah followed (2 Sam. 3:1, 5), but still success was on the side of David. For the space of seven and a half years David reigned in Hebron. Abner now sided with David, and sought to promote his advancement; but was treacherously put to death by Joab in revenge for his having slain his brother Asahel at Gibeon (3:22-39). This was greatly to David’s regret. He mourned for the death of Abner. Shortly after this Ish-bosheth was also treacherously put to death by two Canaanites of Beeroth; and there being now no rival, David was anointed king over all Israel (4:1-12).

David king over all Israel (2 Sam. 5:1-5; 1 Chr. 11:1-3). The elders of Israel now repaired to Hebron and offered allegiance to David in name of all the people, among whom the greatest enthusiasm prevailed. He was anointed king over all Israel, and sought out a new seat of government, more suitable than Hebron, as the capital of his empire. At this time there was a Jebusite fortress, “the stronghold”, on the hill of Zion, called also Jebus. This David took from the Jebusites, and made it Israel’s capital, and established here his residence, and afterwards built for himself a palace by the aid of Tyrian tradesmen. The Philistines, who had for some time observed a kind of truce, now made war against David; but were defeated in battle at a place afterwards called, in remembrance of the victory, Baal-perazim. Again they invaded the land, and were a second time routed by him. He thus delivered Israel from their enemies.

David now resolved to bring up the ark of the covenant to his new capital (2 Sam. 6). It was in the house of Abinadab at Kirjath-jearim, about 7 miles from Jerusalem, where it had been for many years, from the time when the Philistines had sent it home (1 Sam. 6; 7). In consequence of the death of Uzzah (for it was a divine ordinance that only the Levites should handle the ark, Num. 4), who had put forth his hand to steady the ark when the cart in which it was being conveyed shook by reason of the roughness of the road, David stayed the procession, and conveyed the ark into the house of Obed-edom, a Philistine from Gath. After three months David brought the ark from the house of Obed-edom up to Jerusalem. Comp. Ps. 24. Here it was placed in a new tent or tabernacle which David erected for the purpose. About seventy years had passed since it had stood in the tabernacle at Shiloh. The old tabernacle was now at Gibeah, at which Zadok ministered. David now (1 Chr. 16) carefully set in order all the ritual of divine worship at Jerusalem, along with Abiathar the high priest. A new religious era began. The service of praise was for the first time introduced into public worship. Zion became henceforth “God’s holy hill.”

David’s wars. David now entered on a series of conquests which greatly extended and strengthened his kingdom (2 Sam. 8). In a few years the whole territory from the Euphrates to the river of Egypt, and from Gaza on the west to Thapsacus on the east, was under his sway (2 Sam. 8:3-13; 10).

David’s fall. He had now reached the height of his glory. He ruled over a vast empire, and his capital was enriched with the spoils of many lands. But in the midst of all this success he fell, and his character became stained with the sin of adultery (2 Sam. 11:2-27). It has been noted as characteristic of the Bible that while his military triumphs are recorded in a few verses, the sad story of his fall is given in detail, a story full of warning, and therefore recorded. This crime, in the attempt to conceal it, led to anoter. He was guilty of murder. Uriah, whom he had foully wronged, an officer of the Gibborim, the corps of heros (23:39), was, by his order, “set in the front of the hottest battle” at the siege of Rabbah, in order that he might be put to death. Nathan the prophet (2 Sam. 7:1-17; 12:1-23) was sent by God to bring home his crimes to the conscience of the guilty monarch. He became a true penitent. He bitterly bewailed his sins before God. The thirty-second and fifty-first Psalms reveal the deep struggles of his soul, and his spiritual recovery.

Bathsheba became his wife after Uriah’s death. Her first-born son died, according to the word of the prophet. She gave birth to a second son, whom David called Solomon, and who ultimately succeeded him on the throne (2 Sam. 12:24, 25).

Peace. After the successful termination of all his wars, David formed the idea of building a temple for the ark of God. This he was not permitted to carry into execution, because he had been a man of war. God, however, sent Nathan to him with a gracious message (2 Sam. 7:1-16). On receiving it he went into the sanctuary, the tent where the ark was, and sat before the Lord, and poured out his heart in words of devout thanksgiving (18-29). The building of the temple was reserved for his son Solomon, who would be a man of peace (1 Chr. 22:9; 28:3).

A cloudy evening. Hitherto David’s carrer had been one of great prosperity and success. Now cloudy and dark days came. His eldest son Amnon, whose mother was Ahinoam of Jezreel, was guilty of a great and shameful crime (2 Sam. 13). This was the beginning of the disasters of his later years. After two years Absalom terribly avenged the crime against Tamar, and put Amnon to death. This brought sore trouble to David’s heart. Absalom, afraid of the consequences of his guilt, fled to Geshur beyond Jordan, where he remained for three years, when he was brought back through the intrigue of Joab (2 Sam. 14).

After this there fell upon the land the calamity of three years’ famine (2 Sam. 21:1-14). This was soon after followed by a pestilence, brought upon the land as a punishment for David’s sinful pride in numbering the people (2 Sam. 24), in which no fewer than 70,000 perished in the space of three days.

Rebellion of Absalom. The personal respect for David was sadly lowered by the incident of Bathsheba. There was a strong popular sentiment against the taking of the census, and the outburst of the plague in connection with it deepened the feeling of jealously that had begun to manifest itself among some of the tribes against David. Absalom, taking full advantage of this state of things, gradually gained over the people, and at length openly rebelled against his father, and usurped the throne. Ahithophel was Absalom’s chief counsellor. The revolt began in Hebron, the capital of Judah. Absalom was there proclaimed king. David was now in imminent danger, and he left Jerusalem (2 Sam. 15:13-20), and once more became a fugitive. It was a momentous day in Israel. The incidents of it are recorded with a fulness of detail greater than of any other day in Old Testament history. David fled with his followers to Mahanarm, on the east of Jordan. An unnatural civil war broke out. After a few weeks the rival armies were mustered and organized. They met in hostile array at the wood of Ephraim (2 Sam. 18:1-8). Absalom’s army was defeated, and himself put to death by the hand of Joab (9-18). The tidings of the death of his rebellious son filled the heart of David with the most poignant grief. He “went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept” (33), giving utterance to the heart-broken cry, “Would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!” Peace was now restored, and David returned to Jerusalem and resumed the direction of affairs. An unhappy dispute arose between the men of Judah and the men of Israel (19:41-43). Sheba, a Benjamite, headed a revolt of the men of Israel. He was pursued to Abelbeth-maachah, and was there put to death, and so the revolt came to an end.

The end. After the suppression of the rebellion of Absalom and that of Sheba, ten comparatively peaceful years of David’s life passed away. During those years he seems to have been principally engaged in accumulating treasures of every kind for the great temple at Jerusalem, which it was reserved to his successor to build (1 Chr. 22; 28; 29), a house which was to be “exceeding magnifical, of fame and of glory throughout all countries” (22:5). The exciting and laborious life he had spent, and the dangers and trials through which he had passed, had left him an enfeebled man, prematurely old. It became apparent that his life was now drawing to its close. A new palace conspiracy broke out as to who should be his successor. Joab favoured Adonijah. The chiefs of his party met at the “Fuller’s spring,” in the valley of Kidron, to proclaim him king; but Nathan hastened on a decision on the part of David in favour of Solomon, and so the aim of Adonijah’s party failed. Solomon was brought to Jerusalem, and was anointed king and seated on his father’s throne (1 Kings 1:11-53). David’s last words are a grand utterance, revealing his unfailing faith in God, and his joyful confidence in his gracious covenant promises (2 Sam. 23:1-7).

After a reign of forty years and six months (2 Sam. 5:5; 1 Chr. 3:4) David died (B.C. 1015) at the age of seventy years, “and was buried in the city of David.” His tomb is still pointed out on Mount Zion.

David married Bathsheba Widow of Uriah the Hittite.

Children:

i. Solomon King of Israel & Judah (born in Jerusalem, Palestine – died about 930 B.C.)

David next married Maachah, daughter of Talmai King of Goshen. Maachah was born in Goshen, Aramean.

Children:

i. Tamar (born in 1804 B.C. Hebron, Canaan, Palestine – died in Rameses, Goshen, Egypt)

Bathsheba Widow of Uriah the Hittite , daughter of Eliam and Unknown, was born in Bethlehem-Judah.
Bathsheba – daughter of the oath, or of seven, called also Bathshu’a (1 Chr. 3:5), was the daughter of Eliam (2 Sam. 11:3) or Ammiel (1 Chr. 3:5), and wife of Uriah the Hittite. David committed adultery with her (2 Sam. 11:4, 5; Ps. 51:1). The child born in adultery died (2 Sam. 12:15-19). After her husband was slain (11:15) she was married to David (11:27), and became the mother of Solomon (12:24; 1 Kings 1:11; 2:13). She took a prominent part in securing the succession of Solomon to the throne (1 Kings 1:11, 16-21).”It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking upon the roof of the king’s house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful. And David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, “Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?” So David sent messengers, and took her; and she came to him, and he lay with her …. And the woman conceived; and she sent and told David, “I am with child.” (2 Samuel 11:2-5 RSV)

The Killing of Uriah

Bathsheba’s husband was Uriah, a loyal soldier of the king. When attempts failed to make it appear that Uriah was the father of the child that his wife was expecting (2 Samuel 11:6-13), David resorted to making her a widow so that he could take her as his own wife. Incredibly, Uriah was even used to deliver his own death warrant:

“In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah. In the letter he wrote, “Set Uriah in the forefront of the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, that he may be struck down, and die.” And as Joab was besieging the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew there were valiant men. And the men of the city came out and fought with Joab; and some of the servants of David among the people fell. Uriah the Hittite was slain also.” (2 Samuel 11:14-17 RSV)
Bathsheba married David King of Judah.

Twentieth Generation

Jesse, son of Obed and Abalit, was born in Bethlehem-Judah.
Jesse married Habliar of the Judahites.

Children:

i. David King of Judah (born about 1032 B.C. Bethlehem-Judah – died in 1015 B.C.)

Habliar of the Judahites , daughter of Abrias of the Judahites, was born in Bethlehem-Judah.
Habliar married Jesse.

Eliam, was born in Bethlehem-Judah.
Eliam – God’s people. (1.) The father of Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah (2 Sam. 11:3). In 1 Chr. 3:5 his name is Ammiel.

Children:

i. Bathsheba Widow of Uriah the Hittite (born in Bethlehem-Judah)

Twenty-first Generation

Obed, son of Boaz and Ruth, was born in Bethlehem-Judah.
Obed – serving; worshipping. (1.) A son of Boaz and Ruth (Ruth 4:21, 22), and the grandfather of David (Matt. 1:5).

Obed married Abalit.

Children:

i. Jesse (born in Bethlehem-Judah)

Abalit , daughter of Sonas and Unknown, was born in Bethlehem-Judah.
Abalit married Obed.

Abrias of the Judahites , was born in Bethlehem-Judah.
Children:

i. Habliar of the Judahites (born in Bethlehem-Judah)

Twenty-second Generation

Boaz, son of Salmon, was born in Bethlehem-Judah.
Boaz – alacrity. (1.) The husband of Ruth, a wealthy Bethlehemite. By the “levirate law” the duty devolved on him of marrying Ruth the Moabitess (Ruth 4:1-13). He was a kinsman of Mahlon, her first husband.

Boaz married Ruth.

Children:

i. Obed (born in Bethlehem-Judah)

Ruth, was born in Ephrath.
Ruth the Moabitess married Boaz, a wealthy Bethlehemite, and a son was born named Obed, grandfather of King David.

Ruth offers to to glean the dropped stalks that Israelite harvesters are supposed to leave behind for them, hoping that someone would look kindly at her. The field she chooses happens to belong to Boaz, Naomi’s wealthy kinsman.

The men are reaping; they keep cutting handfuls of grain and putting them down in rows. After them come the women who gather these rows into sheaves or bundles, and after that the sheaves are brought to the threshing floor. After them come various poor women. They gather all the loose ears and grains that the others have left behind.

Gleaning is a matter of peering and looking, standing bent over and searching, yet it doesn’t produce much. A whole day’s hard toil for a handful of grains of corn is work that requires a great deal of humility.

Ruth married Boaz.

Sonas, was born in Bethlehem-Judah.
Children:

i. Abalit (born in Bethlehem-Judah)

Twenty-third Generation

Salmon, son of Nahshon Prince of Judah, was born in Bethlehem-Judah.
Children:

i. Boaz (born in Bethlehem-Judah)

Twenty-fourth Generation

Nahshon Prince of Judah , son of Amminadab, was born in Bethlehem-Judah and died in The Wilderness.
Nahshon – sorcerer, the son of Aminadab, and prince of the children of Judah at the time of the first numbering of the tribes in the wilderness (Ex. 6:23). His sister Elisheba was the wife of Aaron. He died in the wilderness (Num. 26:64, 65). His name occurs in the Greek form Naasson in the genealogy of Christ (Matt, 1:4; Luke 3:32).

Children:

i. Salmon (born in Bethlehem-Judah)

Twenty-fifth Generation

Amminadab, son of Aram and Unknown, was born in Bethlehem-Judah.
Amminadab – kindred of the prince. (1.) The father of Nahshon, who was chief of the tribe of Judah (Num. 1:7; 2:3; 7:12, 17; 10:14). His daughter Elisheba was married to Aaron (Ex. 6:23).

Children:

i. Nahshon Prince of Judah (born in Bethlehem-Judah – , died in The Wilderness)

Twenty-sixth Generation

Aram , son of Hezrom, was born in Rameses, Goshen, Egypt and died in Jerusalem, Palestine.
Aram is the Greek form of Ram, the father of Amminadab (1 Chr. 2:10).

Children:

i. Amminadab (born in Bethlehem-Judah)

Twenty-seventh Generation

Hezrom, son of Pharez (Phares Perez), was born in Hebron, Canaan, Palestine and died in Caleb-Ephratah, Goshen, Egypt.
The older of the two sons of Pharez (Gen. 46:12).

Children:

i. Aram (born in Rameses, Goshen, Egypt – died in Jerusalem, Palestine)

Twenty-eighth Generation

Pharez (Phares Perez), son of Judah “the first Jew” King of Goshen and Tamar, was born in Hebron, Canaan, Palestine and died in Rameses, Goshen, Egypt.
Children:

i. Hezrom (born in Hebron, Canaan, Palestine – died in Caleb-Ephratah, Goshen, Egypt)

Twenty-ninth Generation

Judah “the first Jew” King of Goshen, son of Jacob Patriarch of Israel, King of Goshen and Leah, was born in 1804 B.C. in Hebron, Canaan, Palestine and died in 1676 B.C. in Rameses, Goshen, Egypt. Another name for Judah was Judas.
Judah – praise, the fourth son of Jacob by Leah. The name originated in Leah’s words of praise to the Lord on account of his birth: “Now will I praise [Heb. odeh] Jehovah, and she called his name Yehudah” (Gen. 29:35).

It was Judah that interposed in behalf of Joseph, so that his life was spared (Gen. 37:26, 27). He took a lead in the affairs of the family, and “prevailed above his brethren” (Gen. 43:3-10; 44:14, 16-34; 46:28; 1 Chr. 5:2).

Soon after the sale of Joseph to the Ishmaelites, Judah went to reside at Adullam, where he married a woman of Canaan. After the death of his wife Shuah, he returned to his father’s house, and there exercised much influence over the patriarch, taking a principal part in the events which led to the whole family at length going down into Egypt. We hear nothing more of him till he received his father’s blessing (Gen. 49:8-12).

Judah married Tamar.

Children:

i. Zarah Proginator of the Zerahites (born in 1751 B.C. Hebron, Canaan, Palestine)
ii. Pharez (Phares Perez) (born in Hebron, Canaan, Palestine – , died in Rameses, Goshen, Egypt)

Tamar, daughter of David King of Judah and Maachah, was born in 1804 B.C. in Hebron, Canaan, Palestine and died in Rameses, Goshen, Egypt.
A daughter of David (2 Sam. 13:1-32; 1 Chr. 3:9), whom Amnon shamefully outraged and afterwards “hated exceedingly,” thereby illustrating the law of human nature noticed even by the heathen, “Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem laeseris”, i.e., “It is the property of human nature to hate one whom you have injured.”

The daughter-in-law of Judah, to whose eldest son, Er, she was married (Gen. 38:6). After her husband’s death, she was married to Onan, his brother (8), and on his death, Judah promised to her that his third son, Shelah, would become her husband. This promise was not fulfilled, and hence Tamar’s revenge and Judah’s great guilt (38:12-30).

Tamar married Judah “the first Jew” King of Goshen.

Thirtieth Generation

Jacob Patriarch of Israel, King of Goshen, son of Isaac Patriarch of Israel and Rebekah, was born in 1862 B.C. in Beer-Lahai-Roi died in 1715 B.C. in Rameses, Goshen, Egypt, and was buried in Hebron, Canaan, Palestine. Another name for Jacob was Israel.
Jacob – one who follows on another’s heels; supplanter, (Gen. 25:26; 27:36; Hos. 12:2-4), the second born of the twin sons of Isaac by Rebekah. He was born probably at Lahai-roi, when his father was fifty-nine and Abraham one hundred and fifty-nine years old. Like his father, he was of a quiet and gentle disposition, and when he grew up followed the life of a shepherd, while his brother Esau became an enterprising hunter. His dealing with Esau, however, showed much mean selfishness and cunning (Gen. 25:29-34).

When Isaac was about 160 years of age, Jacob and his mother conspired to deceive the aged patriarch (Gen. 27), with the view of procuring the transfer of the birthright to himself. The birthright secured to him who possessed it (1) superior rank in his family (Gen. 49:3); (2) a double portion of the paternal inheritance (Deut. 21:17); (3) the priestly office in the family (Num. 8:17-19); and (4) the promise of the Seed in which all nations of the earth were to be blessed (Gen. 22:18).

Soon after his acquisition of his father’s blessing (Gen. 27), Jacob became conscious of his guilt; and afraid of the anger of Esau, at the suggestion of Rebekah Isaac sent him away to Haran, 400 miles or more, to find a wife among his cousins, the family of Laban, the Syrian (28). There he met with Rachel (29). Laban would not consent to give him his daughter in marriage till he had served seven years; but to Jacob these years “seemed but a few days, for the love he had to her.” But when the seven years were expired, Laban craftily deceived Jacob, and gave him his daughter Leah. Other seven years of service had to be completed probably before he obtained the beloved Rachel. But “life-long sorrow, disgrace, and trials, in the retributive providence of God, followed as a consequence of this double union.”

At the close of the fourteen years of service, Jacob desired to return to his parents, but at the entreaty of Laban he tarried yet six years with him, tending his flocks (31:41). He then set out with his family and property “to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan” (Gen. 31). Laban was angry when he heard that Jacob had set out on his journey, and pursued after him, overtaking him in seven days. The meeting was of a painful kind. After much recrimination and reproach directed against Jacob, Laban is at length pacified, and taking an affectionate farewell of his daughters, returns to his home in Padanaram. And now all connection of the Israelites with Mesopotamia is at an end.

Soon after parting with Laban he is met by a company of angels, as if to greet him on his return and welcome him back to the Land of Promise (32:1, 2). He called the name of the place Mahanaim, i.e., “the double camp,” probably his own camp and that of the angels. The vision of angels was the counterpart of that he had formerly seen at Bethel, when, twenty years before, the weary, solitary traveller, on his way to Padan-aram, saw the angels of God ascending and descending on the ladder whose top reached to heaven (28:12).

He now hears with dismay of the approach of his brother Esau with a band of 400 men to meet him. In great agony of mind he prepares for the worst. He feels that he must now depend only on God, and he betakes himself to him in earnest prayer, and sends on before him a munificent present to Esau, “a present to my lord Esau from thy servant Jacob.” Jacob’s family were then transported across the Jabbok; but he himself remained behind, spending the night in communion with God. While thus engaged, there appeared one in the form of a man who wrestled with him. In this mysterious contest Jacob prevailed, and as a memorial of it his name was changed to Israel (wrestler with God); and the place where this occured he called Peniel, “for”, said he, “I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved” (32:25-31).

After this anxious night, Jacob went on his way, halting, mysteriously weakened by the conflict, but strong in the assurance of the divine favour. Esau came forth and met him; but his spirit of revenge was appeased, and the brothers met as friends, and during the remainder of their lives they maintained friendly relations. After a brief sojourn at Succoth, Jacob moved forward and pitched his tent near Shechem (q.v.), 33:18; but at length, under divine directions, he moved to Bethel, where he made an altar unto God (35:6,7), and where God appeared to him and renewed the Abrahamic covenant. While journeying from Bethel to Ephrath (the Canaanitish name of Bethlehem), Rachel died in giving birth to her second son Benjamin (35:16-20), fifteen or sixteen years after the birth of Joseph. He then reached the old family residence at Mamre, to wait on the dying bed of his father Isaac. The complete reconciliation between Esau and Jacob was shown by their uniting in the burial of the patriarch (35:27-29).

Jacob was soon after this deeply grieved by the loss of his beloved son Joseph through the jealousy of his brothers (37:33). Then follows the story of the famine, and the successive goings down into Egypt to buy corn (42), which led to the discovery of the long-lost Joseph, and the patriarch’s going down with all his household, numbering about seventy souls (Ex. 1:5; Deut. 10:22; Acts 7:14), to sojourn in the land of Goshen. Here Jacob, “after being strangely tossed about on a very rough ocean, found at last a tranquil harbour, where all the best affections of his nature were gently exercised and largely unfolded” (Gen. 48). At length the end of his checkered course draws nigh, and he summons his sons to his bedside that he may bless them. Among his last words he repeats the story of Rachel’s death, although forty years had passed away since that event took place, as tenderly as if it had happened only yesterday; and when “he had made an end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost” (49:33). His body was embalmed and carried with great pomp into the land of Canaan, and buried beside his wife Leah in the cave of Machpelah, according to his dying charge. There, probably, his embalmed body remains to this day (50:1-13).

Jacob married Leah.

Children:

i. Judah “the first Jew” King of Goshen (born in 1804 B.C. Hebron, Canaan, Palestine – died in 1676 B.C. in Rameses, Goshen, Egypt)

Leah, daughter of Laban, “the Syrian” , was born in Haran, Padan-Aram and died in Canaan.
Leah – weary, the eldest daughter of Laban, and sister of Rachel (Gen. 29:16). Jacob took her to wife through a deceit of her father (Gen. 29:23). She was “tender-eyed” (17). She bore to Jacob six sons (32-35), also one daughter, Dinah (30:21). She accompanied Jacob into Canaan, and died there before the time of the going down into Egypt (Gen. 31), and was buried in the cave of Machpelah (49:31).

Leah married Jacob Patriarch of Israel, King of Goshen.

David married Bathsheba Widow of Uriah the Hittite.

David next married Maachah.

Maachah, daughter of Talmai King of Goshen and Unknown, was born in Goshen, Aramean.
Maachah married David King of Judah.

Thirty-first Generation

Isaac Patriarch of Israel, son of Abraham Patriarch of Israel and Sarah, was born in 1922 B.C. in Haran, Padan-Aram died in 1742 B.C. in Beersheba, Canaan, Palestine, and was buried in Cave of Machpelah, Tomb of The Patriarchs, Hebron, West Bank.
The only son of Abraham by Sarah. He was the longest lived of the three patriarchs (Gen. 21:1-3). He was circumcised when eight days old (4-7); and when he was probably two years old a great feast was held in connection with his being weaned.

The next memorable event in his life is that connected with the command of God given to Abraham to offer him up as a sacrifice on a mountain in the land of Moriah (Gen. 22). (See ABRAHAM.) When he was forty years of age Rebekah was chosen for his wife (Gen. 24). After the death and burial of his father he took up his residence at Beer-lahai-roi (25:7-11), where his two sons, Esau and Jacob, were born (21-26), the former of whom seems to have been his favourite son (27,28).

In consequence of a famine (Gen. 26:1) Isaac went to Gerar, where he practised deception as to his relation to Rebekah, imitating the conduct of his father in Egypt (12:12-20) and in Gerar (20:2). The Philistine king rebuked him for his prevarication.

After sojourning for some time in the land of the Philistines, he returned to Beersheba, where God gave him fresh assurance of covenant blessing, and where Abimelech entered into a covenant of peace with him.

The next chief event in his life was the blessing of his sons (Gen. 27:1). He died at Mamre, “being old and full of days” (35:27-29), one hundred and eighty years old, and was buried in the cave of Machpelah.

In the New Testament reference is made to his having been “offered up” by his father (Heb. 11:17; James 2:21), and to his blessing his sons (Heb. 11:20). As the child of promise, he is contrasted with Ishmael (Rom. 9:7, 10; Gal. 4:28; Heb. 11:18).

Isaac is “at once a counterpart of his father in simple devoutness and purity of life, and a contrast in his passive weakness of character, which in part, at least, may have sprung from his relations to his mother and wife. After the expulsion of Ishmael and Hagar, Isaac had no competitor, and grew up in the shade of Sarah’s tent, moulded into feminine softness by habitual submission to her strong, loving will.” His life was so quiet and uneventful that it was spent “within the circle of a few miles; so guileless that he let Jacob overreach him rather than disbelieve his assurance; so tender that his mother’s death was the poignant sorrow of years; so patient and gentle that peace with his neighbours was dearer than even such a coveted possession as a well of living water dug by his own men; so grandly obedient that he put his life at his father’s disposal; so firm in his reliance on God that his greatest concern through life was to honour the divine promise given to his race.”, Geikie’s Hours, etc.

Isaac married Rebekah.

Children:

i. Jacob Patriarch of Israel, King of Goshen (born in 1862 B.C. Beer-Lahai-Roi – died in 1715 B.C. in Rameses, Goshen, Egypt)

Rebekah , daughter of Bathuel “the Syrian” and Unknown, was born in 1951 B.C. in Haran, Padan-Aram died in Beersheba, Canaan, Palestine, and was buried in Cave of Machpelah.

Rebekah – a noose, the daughter of Bethuel, and the wife of Isaac (Gen. 22:23; 24:67). The circumstances under which Abraham’s “steward” found her at the “city of Nahor,” in Padan-aram, are narrated in Gen. 24-27. “She can hardly be regarded as an amiable woman. When we first see her she is ready to leave her father’s house for ever at an hour’s notice; and her future life showed not only a full share of her brother Laban’s duplicity, but the grave fault of partiality in her relations to her children, and a strong will, which soon controlled the gentler nature of her husband.” The time and circumstances of her death are not recorded, but it is said that she was buried in the cave of Machpelah (Gen. 49:31).

Rebekah married Isaac Patriarch of Israel.

Laban, “the Syrian” , son of Bathuel “the Syrian” and Unknown, was born in Haran,Padan-Aram.
Laban – white. (1.) The son of Bethuel, who was the son of Nahor, Abraham’s brother. He lived at Haran in Mesopotamia. His sister Rebekah was Isaac’s wife (Gen. 24). Jacob, one of the sons of this marriage, fled to the house of Laban, whose daughters Leah and Rachel (ch. 29) he eventually married.

Children:

i. Leah (born in Haran, Padan-Aram – , died in Canaan)

Talmai King of Goshen , son of Ammihud (Ammihur) and Unknown, was born in Goshen,Aramean.
Children:

i. Maachah (born in Goshen, Aramean)

Thirty-second Generation

Abraham Patriarch of Israel, son of Terah King of Agade and Amtheta, was born in 2051 B.C. in Ur “of the Chaldees” died in 1876 B.C. in Qiryath Arba, Hebron, Canaan, and was buried in Cave of Makpelah.
Abraham – father of a multitude, son of Terah, named (Gen. 11:27) before his older brothers Nahor and Haran, because he was the heir of the promises. Till the age of seventy, Abram sojourned among his kindred in his native country of Chaldea. He then, with his father and his family and household, quitted the city of Ur, in which he had hitherto dwelt, and went some 300 miles north to Haran, where he abode fifteen years. The cause of his migration was a call from God (Acts 7:2-4). There is no mention of this first call in the Old Testament; it is implied, however, in Gen. 12. While they tarried at Haran, Terah died at the age of 205 years. Abram now received a second and more definite call, accompanied by a promise from God (Gen. 12:1,2); whereupon he took his departure, taking his nephew Lot with him, “not knowing whither he went” (Heb. 11:8). He trusted implicitly to the guidance of Him who had called him.

Abram now, with a large household of probably a thousand souls, entered on a migratory life, and dwelt in tents. Passing along the valley of the Jabbok, in the land of Canaan, he formed his first encampment at Sichem (Gen. 12:6), in the vale or oak-grove of Moreh, between Ebal on the north and Gerizim on the south. Here he received the great promise, “I will make of thee a great nation,” etc. (Gen. 12:2,3,7). This promise comprehended not only temporal but also spiritual blessings. It implied that he was the chosen ancestor of the great Deliverer whose coming had been long ago predicted (Gen. 3:15). Soon after this, for some reason not mentioned, he removed his tent to the mountain district between Bethel, then called Luz, and Ai, towns about two miles apart, where he built an altar to “Jehovah.” He again moved into the southern tract of Palestine, called by the Hebrews the Negeb; and was at length, on account of a famine, compelled to go down into Egypt. This took place in the time of the Hyksos, a Semitic race which now held the Egyptians in bondage. Here occurred that case of deception on the part of Abram which exposed him to the rebuke of Pharaoh (Gen. 12:18). Sarai was restored to him; and Pharaoh loaded him with presents, recommending him to withdraw from the country. He returned to Canaan richer than when he left it, “in cattle, in silver, and in gold” (Gen. 12:8; 13:2. Comp. Ps. 105:13, 14). The whole party then moved northward, and returned to their previous station near Bethel. Here disputes arose between Lot’s shepherds and those of Abram about water and pasturage. Abram generously gave Lot his choice of the pasture-ground. (Comp. 1 Cor. 6:7.) He chose the well-watered plain in which Sodom was situated, and removed thither; and thus the uncle and nephew were separated. Immediately after this Abram was cheered by a repetition of the promises already made to him, and then removed to the plain or “oak-grove” of Mamre, which is in Hebron. He finally settled here, pitching his tent under a famous oak or terebinth tree, called “the oak of Mamre” (Gen. 13:18). This was his third resting-place in the land.

Some fourteen years before this, while Abram was still in Chaldea, Palestine had been invaded by Chedorlaomer, King of Elam, who brought under tribute to him the five cities in the plain to which Lot had removed. This tribute was felt by the inhabitants of these cities to be a heavy burden, and after twelve years they revolted. This brought upon them the vengeance of Chedorlaomer, who had in league with him four other kings. He ravaged the whole country, plundering the towns, and carrying the inhabitants away as slaves. Among those thus treated was Lot. Hearing of the disaster that had fallen on his nephew, Abram immediately gathered from his own household a band of 318 armed men, and being joined by the Amoritish chiefs Mamre, Aner, and Eshcol, he pursued after Chedorlaomer, and overtook him near the springs of the Jordan. They attacked and routed his army, and pursued it over the range of Anti-Libanus as far as to Hobah, near Damascus, and then returned, bringing back all the spoils that had been carried away. Returning by way of Salem, i.e., Jerusalem, the king of that place, Melchizedek, came forth to meet them with refreshments. To him Abram presented a tenth of the spoils, in recognition of his character as a priest of the most high God (Gen. 14:18-20).

In a recently-discovered tablet, dated in the reign of the grandfather of Amraphel (Gen. 14:1), one of the witnesses is called “the Amorite, the son of Abiramu,” or Abram.

Having returned to his home at Mamre, the promises already made to him by God were repeated and enlarged (Gen. 13:14). “The word of the Lord” (an expression occurring here for the first time) “came to him” (15:1). He now understood better the future that lay before the nation that was to spring from him. Sarai, now seventy-five years old, in her impatience, persuaded Abram to take Hagar, her Egyptian maid, as a concubine, intending that whatever child might be born should be reckoned as her own. Ishmael was accordingly thus brought up, and was regarded as the heir of these promises (Gen. 16). When Ishmael was thirteen years old, God again revealed yet more explicitly and fully his gracious purpose; and in token of the sure fulfilment of that purpose the patriarch’s name was now changed from Abram to Abraham (Gen. 17:4,5), and the rite of circumcision was instituted as a sign of the covenant. It was then announced that the heir to these covenant promises would be the son of Sarai, though she was now ninety years old; and it was directed that his name should be Isaac. At the same time, in commemoration of the promises, Sarai’s name was changed to Sarah. On that memorable day of God’s thus revealing his design, Abraham and his son Ishmael and all the males of his house were circumcised (Gen. 17). Three months after this, as Abraham sat in his tent door, he saw three men approaching. They accepted his proffered hospitality, and, seated under an oak-tree, partook of the fare which Abraham and Sarah provided. One of the three visitants was none other than the Lord, and the other two were angels in the guise of men. The Lord renewed on this occasion his promise of a son by Sarah, who was rebuked for her unbelief. Abraham accompanied the three as they proceeded on their journey. The two angels went on toward Sodom; while the Lord tarried behind and talked with Abraham, making known to him the destruction that was about to fall on that guilty city. The patriarch interceded earnestly in behalf of the doomed city. But as not even ten righteous persons were found in it, for whose sake the city would have been spared, the threatened destruction fell upon it; and early next morning Abraham saw the smoke of the fire that consumed it as the “smoke of a furnace” (Gen. 19:1-28).

After fifteen years’ residence at Mamre, Abraham moved southward, and pitched his tent among the Philistines, near to Gerar. Here occurred that sad instance of prevarication on his part in his relation to Abimelech the King (Gen. 20) Soon after this event, the patriarch left the vicinity of Gerar, and moved down the fertile valley about 25 miles to Beer-sheba. It was probably here that Isaac was born, Abraham being now an hundred years old. A feeling of jealousy now arose between Sarah and Hagar, whose son, Ishmael, was no longer to be regarded as Abraham’s heir. Sarah insisted that both Hagar and her son should be sent away. This was done, although it was a hard trial to Abraham (Gen. 21:12).

At this point there is a blank in the patriarch’s history of perhaps twenty-five years. These years of peace and happiness were spent at Beer-sheba. The next time we see him his faith is put to a severe test by the command that suddenly came to him to go and offer up Isaac, the heir of all the promises, as a sacrifice on one of the mountains of Moriah. His faith stood the test (Heb. 11:17-19). He proceeded in a spirit of unhesitating obedience to carry out the command; and when about to slay his son, whom he had laid on the altar, his uplifted hand was arrested by the angel of Jehovah, and a ram, which was entangled in a thicket near at hand, was seized and offered in his stead. From this circumstance that place was called Jehovah-jireh, i.e., “The Lord will provide.” The promises made to Abraham were again confirmed (and this was the last recorded word of God to the patriarch); and he descended the mount with his son, and returned to his home at Beer-sheba (Gen. 22:19), where he resided for some years, and then moved northward to Hebron.

Some years after this Sarah died at Hebron, being 127 years old. Abraham acquired now the needful possession of a burying-place, the cave of Machpelah, by purchase from the owner of it, Ephron the Hittite (Gen. 23); and there he buried Sarah. His next care was to provide a wife for Isaac, and for this purpose he sent his steward, Eliezer, to Haran (or Charran, Acts 7:2), where his brother Nahor and his family resided (Gen. 11:31). The result was that Rebekah, the daughter of Nahor’s son Bethuel, became the wife of Isaac (Gen. 24). Abraham then himself took to wife Keturah, who became the mother of six sons, whose descendants were afterwards known as the “children of the east” (Judg. 6:3), and later as “Saracens.” At length all his wanderings came to an end. At the age of 175 years, 100 years after he had first entered the land of Canaan, he died, and was buried in the old family burying-place at Machpelah (Gen. 25:7-10).

The history of Abraham made a wide and deep impression on the ancient world, and references to it are interwoven in the religious traditions of almost all Eastern nations. He is called “the friend of God” (James 2:23), “faithful Abraham” (Gal. 3:9), “the father of us all” (Rom. 4:16).

Abraham married Sarah.

Children:

i. Isaac Patriarch of Israel (born in 1922 B.C. Haran, Padan-Aram – died in 1742 B.C. in Beersheba, Canaan, Palestine)

Sarah, daughter of Terah King of Agade and Tohwait, was born in Ur “of the Chaldees” died in 1988 B.C. in Beersheba, Canaan, Palestine, and was buried in Cave of Machpelah.
Sarah – princess, the wife and at the same time the half-sister of Abraham (Gen. 11:29; 20:12). This name was given to her at the time that it was announced to Abraham that she should be the mother of the promised child. Her story is from her marriage identified with that of the patriarch till the time of her death. Her death, at the age of one hundred and twenty-seven years (the only instance in Scripture where the age of a woman is recorded), was the occasion of Abraham’s purchasing the cave of Machpelah as a family burying-place.

Sarah married Abraham Patriarch of Israel.

Bathuel “the Syrian”, son of Nahor and Milcah, daughter of Haran, was born in Haran, Padan-Aram.
Children:

i. Laban, “the Syrian” (born in Haran, Padan-Aram)
ii. Rebekah (born in 1951 B.C. Haran, Padan-Aram – , died in Beersheba, Canaan, Palestine)

Bathuel “the Syrian”, son of Nahor and Milcah, daughter of Haran, was born in Haran, Padan-Aram.
Ammihud (Ammihur), was born in Goshen, Aramean.

Children:

i. Talmai King of Goshen (born in Goshen, Aramean)

Thirty-third Generation

Terah King of Agade, son of Nahor and Milcah, daughter of Haran, was born in 2121 B.C. in Haran, Padan-Aram and died in 1916 B.C. in Haran, Padan-Aram. Another name for Terah was Thara.
Terah – the wanderer; loiterer, for some unknown reason emigrated with his family from his native mountains in the north to the plains of Mesopotamia. He had three sons, Haran, Nahor, and Abraham, and one daughter, Sarah. He settled in “Ur of the Chaldees,” where his son Haran died, leaving behind him his son Lot. Nahor settled at Haran, a place on the way to Ur. Terah afterwards migrated with Abraham (probably his youngest son) and Lot (his grandson), together with their families, from Ur, intending to go with them to Canaan; but he tarried at Haran, where he spent the remainder of his days, and died at the age of two hundred and five years (Gen. 11:24-32; Josh. 24:2). What a wonderful part the descendants of this Chaldean shepherd have played in the history of the world!

Terah married Amtheta.

Children:

i. Abraham Patriarch of Israel (born in 2051 B.C. Ur “of the Chaldees” – died in 1876 B.C. in Qiryath Arba, Hebron, Canaan)
ii. Haran (born in Haran, Padan-Aram)

Terah next married Tohwait.

Children:

i. Sarah (born in Ur “of the Chaldees” – died in 1988 B.C. in Beersheba, Canaan, Palestine)

Amtheta, daughter of Avram, was born in Canaan. Another name for Amtheta was Amthelo, daughter.
Amtheta married Terah King of Agade.

Terah married Amtheta.

Terah next married Tohwait.

Tohwait, was born in Ur “of the Chaldees”. Another name for Tohwait was Nfry-Ta-Tjenen.
Tohwait married Terah King of Agade.

Nahor, son of Serug King of Ur & Agade and Melka, was born in Haran, Padan-Aram. Another name for Nahor was Nachor.
He married Milcah, the daughter of his brother Haran, and remained in the land of his nativity on the east of the river Euphrates at Haran (Gen. 11:27-32). A correspondence was maintained between the family of Abraham in Canaan and the relatives in the old ancestral home at Haran till the time of Jacob. When Jacob fled from Haran all intercourse between the two branches of the family came to an end (Gen. 31:55). His grand-daughter Rebekah became Isaac’s wife (24:67).

Nahor married Milcah, daughter of Haran.

Children:

i. Terah King of Agade (born in 2121 B.C. Haran, Padan-Aram – died in 1916 B.C. in Haran, Padan-Aram)
ii. Bathuel “the Syrian” (born in Haran,Padan-Aram)
iii. Kesed (born in Haran,Padan-Aram)

Milcah, daughter of Haran, was born in Haran, Padan-Aram.
Milcah, married Nahor.

Thirty-fourth Generation

Nahor, son of Serug King of Ur & Agade and Melka, was born in Haran, Padan-Aram. Another name for Nahor was Nachor.

He married Milcah, the daughter of his brother Haran, and remained in the land of his nativity on the east of the river Euphrates at Haran (Gen. 11:27-32). A correspondence was maintained between the family of Abraham in Canaan and the relatives in the old ancestral home at Haran till the time of Jacob. When Jacob fled from Haran all intercourse between the two branches of the family came to an end (Gen. 31:55). His grand-daughter Rebekah became Isaac’s wife (24:67).

Nahor married Milcah, daughter of Haran.

Milcah, daughter of Haran, was born in Haran, Padan-Aram.
Milcah, married Nahor.

Avram, son of Heraclim and Shela, was born in Canaan.
Children:

i. Amtheta (born in Canaan)

Serug King of Ur & Agade, son of Reu King of Lagash, was born in 2180 B.C. in Ur “of the Chaldees” and died in 1950 B.C. in Ur “of the Chaldees”. Another name for Serug was Saruch.
Serug – branch, the father of Nahor (Gen. 11:20-23); called Saruch in Luke 3:35.

Serug married Melka.

Children:

i. Nahor (born in Haran,Padan-Aram)

Melka, daughter of Kaber, was born in Ur “of the Chaldees”. Another name for Melka was Milka.
Melka married Cainan, son of Arphaxad ben Shem Hebrew or Shemite and Rasueja. Cainan was born in Canaan. Another name for Cainan was Kenan.

Children:

i. Azura (born in Canaan)

Melka next married Serug King of Ur & Agade.

Haran , son of Terah King of Agade and Amtheta, was born in Haran,Padan-Aram.
Haran – (1.) Heb. haran; i.e., “mountaineer.” The eldest son of Terah, brother of Abraham and Nahor, and father of Lot, Milcah, and Iscah. He died before his father (Gen. 11:27), in Ur of the Chaldees.

Children:

i. Milcah, daughter of Haran (born in Haran, Padan-Aram)

Thirty-fifth Generation

Heraclim, son of Peleg and Lamna of Shinar, was born in Canaan.
Heraclim married Shela.

Children:

i. Avram (born in Canaan)

Shela , was born in Canaan.
Shela married Heraclim.

Reu King of Lagash, son of Phalec “Division” King of Babylon and Lamna of Shinar, was born in 2212 B.C. in Shirpurla, an ancient city of Sumer, south Mesopotamia and died in 1973 B.C. Another name for Reu was Ra’u.
Children:

i. Serug King of Ur & Agade (born in 2180 B.C. Ur “of the Chaldees” – died in 1950 B.C. in Ur “of the Chaldees”)

Kaber, son of Eber of Ebla King of Babylon and Azura, was born in Canaan.
Children:

i. Melka (born in Ur “of the Chaldees”)

Terah King of Agade , son of Nahor and Milcah, daughter of Haran, was born in 2121 B.C. in Haran, Padan-Aram and died in 1916 B.C. in Haran, Padan-Aram. Another name for Terah was Thara.
Terah – the wanderer; loiterer, for some unknown reason emigrated with his family from his native mountains in the north to the plains of Mesopotamia. He had three sons, Haran, Nahor, and Abraham, and one daughter, Sarah. He settled in “Ur of the Chaldees,” where his son Haran died, leaving behind him his son Lot. Nahor settled at Haran, a place on the way to Ur. Terah afterwards migrated with Abraham (probably his youngest son) and Lot (his grandson), together with their families, from Ur, intending to go with them to Canaan; but he tarried at Haran, where he spent the remainder of his days, and died at the age of two hundred and five years (Gen. 11:24-32; Josh. 24:2). What a wonderful part the descendants of this Chaldean shepherd have played in the history of the world!

Terah married Amtheta.

Terah next married Tohwait.

Amtheta, daughter of Avram and Unknown, was born in Canaan. Another name for Amtheta was Amthelo, daughter.
Amtheta married Terah King of Agade.

Thirty-sixth Generation

Peleg, son of Eber of Ebla King of Babylon and Azura, was born in Canaan.
Peleg – division, one of the sons of Eber; so called because “in his days was the earth divided” (Gen. 10:25). Possibly he may have lived at the time of the dispersion from Babel. But more probably the reference is to the dispersion of the two races which sprang from Eber, the one spreading towards Mesopotamia and Syria, and the other southward into Arabia.

Peleg married Lamna of Shinar.

Children:

i. Heraclim (born in Canaan)

Lamna of Shinar , was born in Canaan.
Lamna married Phalec “Division” King of Babylon.

Children:

i. Reu King of Lagash (born in 2212 B.C. Shirpurla, an ancient city of Sumer, south Mesopotamia – died in 1973 B.C.)

Lamna next married Peleg.

Phalec “Division” King of Babylon, son of Eber of Ebla King of Babylon and Azura, was born in 2242 B.C. in Canaan and died in 2003 B.C.
Phalec married Lamna of Shinar.

Lamna of Shinar, was born in Canaan.
Lamna married Phalec “Division” King of Babylon.

Lamna next married Peleg.

Eber of Ebla King of Babylon, son of Shelah ben Arphaxad King of Babylon and Muak, was born in 2276 B.C. in Canaan and died in 1812 B.C.
Eber married Azura.

Children:

i. Phalec “Division” King of Babylon (born in 2242 B.C. Canaan – died in 2003 B.C.)
ii. Kaber (born in Canaan)
iii. Peleg (born in Canaan)

Azura , daughter of Cainan and Melka, was born in Canaan.
Azura married Eber of Ebla King of Babylon.

Thirty-seventh Generation

Eber of Ebla King of Babylon, son of Shelah ben Arphaxad King of Babylon and Muak, was born in 2276 B.C. in Canaan and died in 1812 B.C.
Eber married Azura.

Azura, daughter of Cainan and Melka, was born in Canaan.

Azura married Eber of Ebla King of Babylon.

Eber of Ebla King of Babylon, son of Shelah ben Arphaxad King of Babylon and Muak, was born in 2276 B.C. in Canaan and died in 1812 B.C.
Eber married Azura.

Azura, daughter of Cainan and Melka, was born in Canaan.
Azura married Eber of Ebla King of Babylon.

Shelah ben Arphaxad King of Babylon, son of Arphaxad ben Shem Hebrew or Shemite and Rasueja, was born about 2307 B.C. in Canaan and died about 1874 B.C.
A son of Arphaxad (1 Chr. 1:18).

Shelah married Muak.

Children:

i. Eber of Ebla King of Babylon (born in 2276 B.C. Canaan – died in 1812 B.C.)

Muak, daughter of Kesed, was born in Jerusalem, Palestine.
Muak married Shelah ben Arphaxad King of Babylon.

Cainan, son of Arphaxad ben Shem Hebrew or Shemite and Rasueja, was born in Canaan. Another name for Cainan was Kenan.
Cainan married Melka.

Melka, daughter of Kaber, was born in Ur “of the Chaldees”. Another name for Melka was Milka.
Melka married Cainan.

Melka next married Serug King of Ur & Agade.

Thirty-eighth Generation

Arphaxad ben Shem Hebrew or Shemite, son of Shem ben Noah Hebrew or Shemite and Daughter of Eliakim the son of Methuselah, was born in 2342 B.C. in Canaan and died in 1904 B.C.
Arphaxad married Rasueja.

Children:

i. Shelah ben Arphaxad King of Babylon (born about 2307 B.C. Canaan – died about 1874 B.C.)
ii. Cainan (born in Canaan)

Rasueja, daughter of Elam, was born in Shulon, east of Eden.
Rasueja married Arphaxad ben Shem Hebrew or Shemite.

Kesed, son of Nahor and Milcah, daughter of Haran, was born in Haran, Padan-Aram.
Children:

i. Muak (born in Jerusalem, Palestine)

Rasueja , daughter of Elam, was born in Shulon, east of Eden.
Rasueja married Arphaxad ben Shem Hebrew or Shemite.

Thirty-ninth Generation

Shem ben Noah Hebrew or Shemite, son of Noah ben Lamech Tenth Patriarch and Naamah daughter of Enoch, was born in 2442 B.C. in Shulon, east of Eden and died in 1942 B.C.
Shem – a name; renown, the first mentioned of the sons of Noah (Gen. 5:32; 6:10). He was probably the eldest of Noah’s sons. The words “brother of Japheth the elder” in Gen. 10:21 are more correctly rendered “the elder brother of Japheth,” as in the Revised Version. Shem’s name is generally mentioned first in the list of Noah’s sons. He and his wife were saved in the ark (7:13). Noah foretold his preeminence over Canaan (9:23-27). He died at the age of six hundred years, having been for many years contemporary with Abraham, according to the usual chronology. The Israelitish nation sprang from him (Gen. 11:10-26; 1 Chr. 1:24-27).

Shem married Daughter of Eliakim the son of Methuselah.

Children:

i. Arphaxad ben Shem Hebrew or Shemite (born in 2342 B.C. Canaan – died in 1904 B.C.)
ii. Elam (born in Shulon,east of Eden)

Daughter of Eliakim the son of Methuselah, daughter of Eleakim, was born near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia.
Daughter married Shem ben Noah Hebrew or Shemite.

Elam, son of Shem ben Noah Hebrew or Shemite and Daughter of Eliakim the son of Methuselah, was born in Shulon, east of Eden.
Elam – highland, the son of Shem (Gen. 10:22), and the name of the country inhabited by his descendants (14:1, 9; Isa. 11:11; 21:2, etc.) lying to the east of Babylonia, and extending to the shore of the Mediterranean, a distance in a direct line of about 1,000 miles. The name Elam is an Assyrian word meaning “high.”

“The inhabitants of Elam, or ‘the Highlands,’ to the east of Babylon, were called Elamites. They were divided into several branches, speaking different dialects of the same agglutinative language. The race to which they belonged was brachycephalic, or short-headed, like the pre-Semitic Sumerians of Babylonia.

“The earliest Elamite kingdom seems to have been that of Anzan, the exact site of which is uncertain; but in the time of Abraham, Shushan or Susa appears to have already become the capital of the country. Babylonia was frequently invaded by the Elamite kings, who at times asserted their supremacy over it (as in the case of Chedorlaomer, the Kudur-Lagamar, or ‘servant of the goddess Lagamar,’ of the cuneiform texts).

“The later Assyrian monarchs made several campaigns against Elam, and finally Assur-bani-pal (about B.C. 650) succeeded in conquering the country, which was ravaged with fire and sword. On the fall of the Assyrian Empire, Elam passed into the hands of the Persians” (A.H. Sayce).

This country was called by the Greeks Cissia or Susiana.

Children:

i. Rasueja (born in Shulon, east of Eden)

Nahor married Milcah, daughter of Haran.

Milcah, daughter of Haran, daughter of Haran, was born in Haran, Padan-Aram.
Milcah, married Nahor.

Fortieth Generation

Noah ben Lamech Tenth Patriarch, son of Lamech ben Mathusala Ninth Patriarch and Betenos Ashmua, was born in 2944 B.C. near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia and died in 1993 B.C. near Mount Arafat.
Noah divided the world amongst his three sons, begotten of his wife Titea: viz., to Shem he gave Asia, within the Euphrates, to the Indian Ocean; to Ham he gave Syria, Arabia, and Africa; and to Japhet, the rest of Asia beyond the Euphrates, together with Europe to Gadea (or Cadiz).

Noah – rest, (Heb. Noah) the grandson of Methuselah (Gen. 5:25-29), who was for two hundred and fifty years contemporary with Adam, and the son of Lamech, who was about fifty years old at the time of Adam’s death. This patriarch is rightly regarded as the connecting link between the old and the new world. He is the second great progenitor of the human family.

The words of his father Lamech at his birth (Gen. 5:29) have been regarded as in a sense prophetical, designating Noah as a type of Him who is the true “rest and comfort” of men under the burden of life (Matt.11:28).

He lived five hundred years, and then there were born unto him three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth (Gen. 5:32). He was a “just man and perfect in his generation,” and “walked with God” (comp. Ezek. 14:14,20). But now the descendants of Cain and of Seth began to intermarry, and then there sprang up a race distinguished for their ungodliness. Men became more and more corrupt, and God determined to sweep the earth of its wicked population (Gen. 6:7). But with Noah God entered into a covenant, with a promise of deliverance from the threatened deluge (18). He was accordingly commanded to build an ark (6:14-16) for the saving of himself and his house. An interval of one hundred and twenty years elapsed while the ark was being built (6:3), during which Noah bore constant testimony against the unbelief and wickedness of that generation (1 Pet. 3:18-20; 2 Pet. 2:5).

When the ark of “gopher-wood” (mentioned only here) was at length completed according to the command of the Lord, the living creatures that were to be preserved entered into it; and then Noah and his wife and sons and daughters-in-law entered it, and the “Lord shut him in” (Gen.7:16). The judgment-threatened now fell on the guilty world, “the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished” (2 Pet. 3:6). The ark floated on the waters for one hundred and fifty days, and then rested on the mountains of Ararat (Gen. 8:3,4); but not for a considerable time after this was divine permission given him to leave the ark, so that he and his family were a whole year shut up within it (Gen. 6-14).

On leaving the ark Noah’s first act was to erect an altar, the first of which there is any mention, and offer the sacrifices of adoring thanks and praise to God, who entered into a covenant with him, the first covenant between God and man, granting him possession of the earth by a new and special charter, which remains in force to the present time (Gen. 8:21-9:17). As a sign and witness of this covenant, the rainbow was adopted and set apart by God, as a sure pledge that never again would the earth be destroyed by a flood.

But, alas! Noah after this fell into grievous sin (Gen. 9:21); and the conduct of Ham on this sad occasion led to the memorable prediction regarding his three sons and their descendants. Noah “lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years, and he died” (28:29).

Noah married Naamah daughter of Enoch.

Children:

i. Shem ben Noah Hebrew or Shemite (born in 2442 B.C. Shulon, east of Eden – died in 1942 B.C.)
ii. Japheth ben Noah (born near Havilah,along the border of Babylonia)

Naamah daughter of Enoch , daughter of Enoch ben Jared Seventh Patriarch and Edna, was born in 2944 B.C. near Havilah,along the border of Babylonia and died before 1993 B.C. near Mount Arafat.
Naamah married Noah ben Lamech Tenth Patriarch.

Eleakim, son of Methuselah ben Enoch Eighth Patriarch and Edna, was born near Havilah,along the border of Babylonia.

Children:

i. Daughter of Eliakim the son of Methuselah (born near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia)

Shem ben Noah Hebrew or Shemite , son of Noah ben Lamech Tenth Patriarch and Naamah daughter of Enoch, was born in 2442 B.C. in Shulon,east of Eden and died in 1942 B.C.
Shem – a name; renown, the first mentioned of the sons of Noah (Gen. 5:32; 6:10). He was probably the eldest of Noah’s sons. The words “brother of Japheth the elder” in Gen. 10:21 are more correctly rendered “the elder brother of Japheth,” as in the Revised Version. Shem’s name is generally mentioned first in the list of Noah’s sons. He and his wife were saved in the ark (7:13). Noah foretold his preeminence over Canaan (9:23-27). He died at the age of six hundred years, having been for many years contemporary with Abraham, according to the usual chronology. The Israelitish nation sprang from him (Gen. 11:10-26; 1 Chr. 1:24-27).

Shem married Daughter of Eliakim the son of Methuselah.

Daughter of Eliakim the son of Methuselah , was born near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia.
Daughter married Shem ben Noah Hebrew or Shemite.

Forty-first Generation

Lamech ben Mathusala Ninth Patriarch, son of Methuselah ben Enoch Eighth Patriarch and Edna, was born 3126 BC near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia and died in 2344 B.C.
The seventh in descent from Seth, being the only son of Methuselah. Noah was the oldest of his several sons (Gen. 5:25-31; Luke 3:36).

Lamech married Betenos Ashmua.

Children:

i. Noah ben Lamech Tenth Patriarch (born in 2944 B.C. near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia – died in 1993 B.C. near Mount Arafat)

Betenos Ashmua , daughter of Barakiel, was born near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia.

Betenos married Lamech ben Mathusala Ninth Patriarch.

Enoch ben Jared Seventh Patriarch, son of Jared ben Maleleel Sixth Patriarch and Baraka, was born 3378 BC near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia and died 3013 BC.
The son of Jared, and father of Methuselah (Gen. 5:21; Luke 3:37). His father was one hundred and sixty-two years old when he was born. After the birth of Methuselah, Enoch “walked with God three hundred years” (Gen. 5:22-24), when he was translated without tasting death. His whole life on earth was three hundred and sixty-five years. He was the “seventh from Adam” (Jude 1:14), as distinguished from the son of Cain, the third from Adam. He is spoken of in the catalogue of Old Testament worthies in the Epistle to the Hebrews (11:5). When he was translated, only Adam, so far as recorded, had as yet died a natural death, and Noah was not yet born. Mention is made of Enoch’s prophesying only in Jude 1:14.

Enoch married Edna.

Children:

i. Methuselah ben Enoch Eighth Patriarch (born 3313 BC near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia – died in 2344 B.C. During the Great Flood)
ii. Naamah daughter of Enoch (born in 2944 B.C. near Havilah,along the border of Babylonia – died before 1993 B.C. near Mount Arafat)

Edna, daughter of Azrial, was born near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia.
Edna married Methuselah ben Enoch Eighth Patriarch.

Children:

i. Lamech ben Mathusala Ninth Patriarch (born 3126 BC near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia – died in 2344 B.C.)
ii. Eleakim (born near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia)

Edna next married Enoch ben Jared Seventh Patriarch.

Methuselah ben Enoch Eighth Patriarch, son of Enoch ben Jared Seventh Patriarch and Edna, was born 3313 BC near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia and died in 2344 B.C. During the Great Flood.
Methuselah – man of the dart, the son of Enoch, and grandfather of Noah. He was the oldest man of whom we have any record, dying at the age of nine hundred and sixty-nine years, in the year of the Flood (Gen. 5:21-27; 1 Chr. 1:3).

Methuselah married Edna.

Edna, daughter of Azrial and Unknown, was born near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia.
Edna married Methuselah ben Enoch Eighth Patriarch.

Edna next married Enoch ben Jared Seventh Patriarch.

Forty-second Generation

Methuselah married Edna.

Edna, daughter of Azrial, was born near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia.
Edna married Methuselah ben Enoch Eighth Patriarch.

Edna next married Enoch ben Jared Seventh Patriarch.

Barakiel, son of Enos ben Seth Third Patriarch and Noam, was born near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia.
Children:

i. Dinah (born near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia)
ii. Betenos Ashmua (born near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia)

Jared ben Maleleel Sixth Patriarch, son of Maleleel ben Cainan Fifth Patriarch and Dinah, was born 3548 BC near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia and died in 2578 B.C.
Jared – descent. (1.) The fourth antediluvian patriarch in descent from Seth (Gen. 5:15-20; Luke 3:37), the father of Enoch; called Jered in 1 Chr. 1:2.

Jared married Baraka.

Children:

i. Enoch ben Jared Seventh Patriarch (born 3378 BC near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia – died 3013 BC)
ii. Azrial (born near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia)

Baraka, daughter of Rashujal, was born near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia.
Baraka married Jared ben Maleleel Sixth Patriarch.

Azrial, son of Jared ben Maleleel Sixth Patriarch and Baraka, was born near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia.
Children:

i. Edna (born near Havilah,along the border of Babylonia)

Enoch married Edna.

Edna, daughter of Azrial, was born near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia.
Edna married Methuselah ben Enoch Eighth Patriarch.

Edna next married Enoch ben Jared Seventh Patriarch.

Forty-third Generation

Enos ben Seth Third Patriarch , son of Seth ben Adam Second Patriarch and Azura, was born 3765 BC near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia and died in 2860 B.C.
Enos – man the son of Seth, and grandson of Adam (Gen. 5:6-11; Luke 3:38). He lived nine hundred and five years. In his time “men began to call upon the name of the Lord” (Gen. 4:26), meaning either (1) then began men to call themselves by the name of the Lord (marg.) i.e., to distinguish themselves thereby from idolaters; or (2) then men in some public and earnest way began to call upon the Lord, indicating a time of spiritual revival.

Enos married Noam.

Children:

i. Cainan ben Enos Fourth Patriarch (born 3675 BC near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia – died in 2765 B.C.)
ii. Mualeleth (born near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia)
iii. Barakiel (born near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia)

Noam, daughter of Seth ben Adam Second Patriarch and Azura, was born near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia.

Noam married Enos ben Seth Third Patriarch.

Maleleel ben Cainan Fifth Patriarch, son of Cainan ben Enos Fourth Patriarch and Mualeleth, was born 3605 BC in Eden, near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia and died in 2710 B.C.
Maleleel married Dinah.

Children:

i. Jared ben Maleleel Sixth Patriarch (born 3548 BC near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia – died in 2578 B.C.)

Dinah, daughter of Barakiel and Unknown, was born near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia.
Dinah married Maleleel ben Cainan Fifth Patriarch.

Rashujal, son of Cainan ben Enos Fourth Patriarch and Mualeleth, was born near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia.
Children:

i. Baraka (born near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia)

Jared married Baraka.

Baraka , daughter of Rashujal, was born near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia.
Baraka married Jared ben Maleleel Sixth Patriarch.

Forty-fourth Generation

Seth ben Adam Second Patriarch, son of Adam The First Patriarch and Eve The Mother of All Mankind, was born abt 3870 BC near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia and died in 2958 B.C.
Seth – appointed; a substitute, the third son of Adam and Eve (Gen. 4:25; 5:3). His mother gave him this name, “for God,” said she, “hath appointed me [i.e., compensated me with] another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.”

Seth married Azura.

Children:

i. Enos ben Seth Third Patriarch (born 3765 BC near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia – died in 2860 B.C.)
ii. Noam (born near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia)

Azura, daughter of Adam The First Patriarch and Eve The Mother of All Mankind, was born near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia.
Azura married Seth ben Adam Second Patriarch.

Cainan ben Enos Fourth Patriarch, son of Enos ben Seth Third Patriarch and Noam, was born 3675 BC near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia and died in 2765 B.C.
Cainan married Mualeleth.

Children:

i. Maleleel ben Cainan Fifth Patriarch (born 3605 BC Eden, near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia – died in 2710 B.C.)
ii. Rashujal (born near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia)

Mualeleth, daughter of Enos ben Seth Third Patriarch and Noam, was born near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia.

Mualeleth married Cainan ben Enos Fourth Patriarch.

Barakiel, son of Enos ben Seth Third Patriarch and Noam, was born near Havilah,along the border of Babylonia.

Cainan ben Enos Fourth Patriarch, son of Enos ben Seth Third Patriarch and Noam, was born 3675 BC near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia and died in 2765 B.C.

Cainan married Mualeleth.

Mualeleth, daughter of Enos ben Seth Third Patriarch and Noam, was born near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia.
Mualeleth married Cainan ben Enos Fourth Patriarch.

Forty-fifth Generation

Enos ben Seth Third Patriarch , son of Seth ben Adam Second Patriarch and Azura, was born 3765 BC near Havilah,along the border of Babylonia and died in 2860 B.C.

Enos – man the son of Seth, and grandson of Adam (Gen. 5:6-11; Luke 3:38). He lived nine hundred and five years. In his time “men began to call upon the name of the Lord” (Gen. 4:26), meaning either (1) then began men to call themselves by the name of the Lord (marg.) i.e., to distinguish themselves thereby from idolaters; or (2) then men in some public and earnest way began to call upon the Lord, indicating a time of spiritual revival.

Enos married Noam.

Noam, daughter of Seth ben Adam Second Patriarch and Azura, was born near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia.
Noam married Enos ben Seth Third Patriarch.

Enos ben Seth Third Patriarch , son of Seth ben Adam Second Patriarch and Azura, was born 3765 BC near Havilah,along the border of Babylonia and died in 2860 B.C.
Enos – man the son of Seth, and grandson of Adam (Gen. 5:6-11; Luke 3:38). He lived nine hundred and five years. In his time “men began to call upon the name of the Lord” (Gen. 4:26), meaning either (1) then began men to call themselves by the name of the Lord (marg.) i.e., to distinguish themselves thereby from idolaters; or (2) then men in some public and earnest way began to call upon the Lord, indicating a time of spiritual revival.

Enos married Noam.

Noam, daughter of Seth ben Adam Second Patriarch and Azura, was born near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia.
Noam married Enos ben Seth Third Patriarch.

Adam The First Patriarch, son of Yahweh, was born 4000 BC in Garden of Eden and died abt 3070 BC near Havilah,along the border of Babylonia.
Adam – red, a Babylonian word, the generic name for man, having the same meaning in the Hebrew and the Assyrian languages. It was the name given to the first man, whose creation, fall, and subsequent history and that of his descendants are detailed in the first book of Moses (Gen. 1:27-ch. 5). “God created man [Heb., Adam] in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”

Adam was absolutely the first man whom God created. He was formed out of the dust of the earth (and hence his name), and God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and gave him dominion over all the lower creatures (Gen. 1:26; 2:7). He was placed after his creation in the Garden of Eden, to cultivate it, and to enjoy its fruits under this one prohibition: “Of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.”

The first recorded act of Adam was his giving names to the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air, which God brought to him for this end. Thereafter the Lord caused a deep sleep to fall upon him, and while in an unconscious state took one of his ribs, and closed up his flesh again; and of this rib he made a woman, whom he presented to him when he awoke. Adam received her as his wife, and said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” He called her Eve, because she was the mother of all living.

Being induced by the tempter in the form of a serpent to eat the forbidden fruit, Eve persuaded Adam, and he also did eat. Thus man fell, and brought upon himself and his posterity all the sad consequences of his transgression. The narrative of the Fall comprehends in it the great promise of a Deliverer (Gen. 3:15), the “first gospel” message to man. They were expelled from Eden, and at the east of the garden God placed a flame, which turned every way, to prevent access to the tree of life (Gen. 3). How long they were in Paradise is matter of mere conjecture.

Shortly after their expulsion Eve brought forth her first-born, and called him Cain. Although we have the names of only three of Adam’s sons, viz., Cain, Abel, and Seth, yet it is obvious that he had several sons and daughters (Gen. 5:4). He died aged 930 years.

Adam and Eve were the progenitors of the whole human race. Evidences of varied kinds are abundant in proving the unity of the human race. The investigations of science, altogether independent of historical evidence, lead to the conclusion that God “hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth” (Acts 17:26. Comp. Rom. 5:12-12; 1 Cor. 15:22-49).

Adam married Eve The Mother of All Mankind.

Eve The Mother of All Mankind , daughter of Yahweh was born 4000 BC in Garden of Eden and died near Havilah,along the border of Babylonia.
Eve – life; living, the name given by Adam to his wife (Gen. 3:20; 4:1). The account of her creation is given in Gen. 2:21, 22. The Creator, by declaring that it was not good for man to be alone, and by creating for him a suitable companion, gave sanction to monogamy. The commentator Matthew Henry says: “This companion was taken from his side to signify that she was to be dear unto him as his own flesh. Not from his head, lest she should rule over him; nor from his feet, lest he should tyrannize over her; but from his side, to denote that species of equality which is to subsist in the marriage state.” And again, “That wife that is of God’s making by special grace, and of God’s bringing by special providence, is likely to prove a helpmeet to her husband.” Through the subtle temptation of the serpent she violated the commandment of God by taking of the forbidden fruit, which she gave also unto her husband (1 Tim. 2:13-15; 2 Cor. 11:3). When she gave birth to her first son, she said, “I have gotten a man from the Lord” (R.V., “I have gotten a man with the help of the Lord,” Gen. 4:1). Thus she welcomed Cain, as some think, as if he had been the Promised One the “Seed of the woman.”

Eve married Adam The First Patriarch.

Children:

i. Seth ben Adam Second Patriarch (born abt 3870 BC near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia – died in 2958 B.C.)
ii. Azura (born near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia)

Forty-sixth Generation

Yahweh Another name for Yahweh was Jehovah or Jahveh.
Jehovah – the special and significant name (not merely an appellative title such as Lord [adonai]) by which God revealed himself to the ancient Hebrews (Ex. 6:2, 3). This name, the Tetragrammaton of the Greeks, was held by the later Jews to be so sacred that it was never pronounced except by the high priest on the great Day of Atonement, when he entered into the most holy place. Whenever this name occurred in the sacred books they pronounced it, as they still do, “Adonai” (i.e., Lord), thus using another word in its stead. The Massorets gave to it the vowel-points appropriate to this word. This Jewish practice was founded on a false interpretation of Lev. 24:16. The meaning of the word appears from Ex. 3:14 to be “the unchanging, eternal, self-existent God,” the “I am that I am,” a convenant-keeping God. (Comp. Mal. 3:6; Hos. 12:5; Rev. 1:4, 8.)

Children:

i. Adam The First Patriarch (born 4000 BC Garden of Eden – died abt 3070 BC near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia)
ii. Eve The Mother of All Mankind (born 4000 BC Garden of Eden – , died near Havilah, along the border of Babylonia)

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