Twentieth Stop What Y’hovah was raising was the awareness that AthaliYah was a wicked influence on her husband Yehoram, king of Yehudah and the fear and trembling that ought to be known in Yehudah.
Twenty-First Stop Stop 21 was at MaK’heloth, which like Kehalathah, derives from the root kahal, assembly. Nothing important occurred here, either – that’s 7 stops in a row. The ancestor corresponding to this stop was UzziYahu (strength of Y’hovah), or AzariYahu (Y’hovah has helped). Both names are applied to the same king.
Twenty-First Stop Notice that 3 generations of kings were NOT mentioned in Yeshua’s genealogy; Ahaziah, Athaliah, the usurper (was the queen mother who killed all her grandchildren except Joash), Yehoash and Amaziah. I assume that these were left out due to their tainted DNA. The 4th generation may have been sufficiently purged of the Yezevel DNA to be included again.
Twenty-First Stop I think the fear and trembling of Charadah was not wasted on Azariah/Uzziah and his descendants, whose father, grandfather, and great-grandfather had all lost a LOT of blessings due to Yehoram’s (and Amaziah’s) idolatrous lifestyles.
Twenty-Second Stop The 22nd stop was Tahath, meaning below. No important happenings here, either. Matt.1’s corresponding ancestor is Yehotham, whose name means Y’hovah is perfect or complete.
Twenty-Second Stop In his own life, Yehotham was a righteous king who was in Moshiach, in whom his kahal is tamiym, but the names below him in Moshiach’s genealogy begin to become more wicked, with a couple of outstanding exceptions.
Twenty-Third Stop Stop 23 was at Tarach, meaning ‘wild goat, wanderer or loiterer’. Nothing of any importance happened here, either (9th encampment where nothing is reported: I’m beginning to think that all the action was at very select places, and that the Wilderness Adventure wasn’t all that adventurous;
Twenty-Third Stop that life in the wilderness was a lot like a Navy cruise in a war zone – long periods of boredom punctuated by brief moments of abject terror). The son of David/ancestor of Yeshua corresponding to this stop is Ahaz. Ahaz was an unrighteous king in Yerusahalayim.
Twenty-Third Stop 2 Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the sight of Y’hovah his Eloha, like David his father. 3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom Y’hovah cast out from before the children of Israel. 4 And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree. (2Ki.16.2-4)
Twenty-Third Stop If you read the entire chapter of Melachim Bet 16, you will see that there may not have been a more wicked king EVER in Yehudah, so the connection is obvious between the ‘wild goat’ campsite and perhaps the most wicked son of David to occupy the throne.
Twenty-Fourth Stop Next stop was Mithkah (#24), which means ‘sweetness’, not to be confused with Walter Payton. This is 10th straight stop where nothing of any importance happened. ChizkiYahu, the ancestor of Yeshua who corresponds here, was one of the great and righteous kings of Yehudah.
Twenty-Fourth Stop He pulled down the high places and groves in Yehudah, and instigated a top-down revival. The sweetness was seen in the way that ChizkiYahu tore down the pagan altars and high places in Yehudah. But top-down action seldom works to the benefit of the whole people.
Twenty-Fifth Stop Hashmonah is stop #25. The word means ‘firm or capacious in resources’, and for the 11th straight stop, nothing happened there. Menashe is the ancestor of Moshiach that corresponds to this stop. Menashe was wicked for most of his reign, which was the longest in Yehudah’s history – 55 years.
Twenty-Fifth Stop He encouraged a rapid declension into idolatry for the people, as he went after the strange elohim himself. He set up an image (an obelisk) of the groves in the Temple itself: (2Ki.21)7 And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which Y’hovah said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
Twenty-Fifth Stop - 8 Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them. 9 But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom Y’hovah destroyed before the children of Israel. (2Ki.21.7-9)
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