Fifteenth Stop Rehovoam made the wrong decision, of course, by not heeding the counsel of his father’s chief advisors. But the seeds of secession, the breach in the United Kingdom, were sown by Shlomo.
Sixteenth Stop Stop #16 was Libnah, which was also not mentioned in the narrative. Yeshua’s ancestor corresponding to the 16th camp was Rehoboam (a people has enlarged). His mother, Na’amah was an Ammonitess. Libnah means whiteness or transparency.
Sixteenth Stop After the ‘split’ that occurred in his reign, there was nothing that Rehoboam did that was of any importance, either. The one thing that happened in his reign that had any importance wasn’t as a result of anything he did. The split was due to Shlomo’s actions. It was as if Rehoboam was never even there - transparent.
Seventeenth Stop The 17th stop was at Rissah. Here’s Strong’s on Rissah,
- 7446 Riccah ris-saw' from 7450; a ruin (as dripping to pieces); Rissah, a place in the Desert:--Rissah. see HEBREW for 07450
- 7450 racac raw-sas' a primitive root; to comminute; used only as denominative from 7447, to moisten (with drops):--temper. see HEBREW for 07447
- 7447 raciyc raw-sees' from 7450; properly, dripping to pieces, i.e. a ruin; also a dew-drop:--breach, drop. see HEBREW for 07450
Seventeenth Stop Webster’s 1828 Dictionary defines comminute as ‘to reduce to fine powder’, so Rissah was a ruin that was literally falling apart before their eyes, eroding away so quickly it was as if it were flowing like water. The place must have been constructed of mud or an adobe-like material, unable to hold up to the effects of wind and the stuff driven by it.
Seventeenth Stop The 17th name in Yeshua’s genealogy is AviYam, who had no children and when he died after only 3 years in the throne, his brother Asa ascended to the throne. His name means ‘the sea is my father’.
Seventeenth Stop I think that what was being comminuted (reduced to powder) was the reign of less than righteous kings, beginning with Shlomo in the latter years of his reign. What were also being comminuted was the righteousness of the people (with some notable exceptions, as we’ll see a bit later) and AviYam’s physical seed-line.
Eighteenth Stop The 18th encampment was at K’helathah, which means a place of congregation or gathering, from the root H.6950, kahal. Nothing of import happened here in the narrative, either. The Messianic ancestor who corresponds to this encampment is Asa. To this point, only David had been consistently a king after Y’hovah’s heart.
Eighteenth Stop Asa and his son, Yehoshaphat were personally righteous, though the people were growing ever more distant from Y’hovah. Asa begins a run of righteous kings in Yehudah, where the worship of Y’hovah was the general order of the day, despite the ever enlarging minority who went after other elohim.
Nineteenth Stop The 19th encampment was at Mt. Shapher. The root shaphar = glisten, beautiful. For the 5th time running, nothing of major import occurred here. But the Messianic ancestor named, is Yehoshaphat, whose name means Y’hovah judges.
Nineteenth Stop While Yehoshaphat cemented a political relationship with Ahav and Yezevel of Israel, by marrying his heir, Yehoram to a daughter of Ahav and Yezevel, AthaliYah, his own character and commitment to Y’hovah cannot be understated.
Nineteenth Stop He shone in comparison to his contemporaries, actually demanding a prophet of Y’hovah be found to prophesy of a battle he and Ahab were going to fight. As the people of Israel and Yehudah became less set-apart to Y’hovah, even the righteous kings started to think that Y’hovah was less interested in their political lives than in their spiritual lives, somehow forgetting that they are interrelated.
Nineteenth Stop What you believe should rule every aspect of your life, even your politics. AthaliYah’s name means Y’hovah compresses or constrains. Well, Y’hovah compresses the genealogy of Yeshua for 3 generations, I believe due to the wickedness of AthaliYah and her son.
Nineteenth Stop The missing 3 generations fits Ex.20, even though there were 2 righteous kings among them (Jehoash and Amaziah).
- Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I Y’hovah Elohecha am a jealous Eloha, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; (Exodus 20:5)
I believe this was done to thin the DNA of Yezevel out of the line of David.
Twentieth Stop The 20th stop was at Charadah, which is feminine of the root charad, meaning trembling, fearful. Nothing important enough to report happened here, either. The corresponding ancestor of Yeshua is Yehoram, whose name means Y’hovah raises.
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