Twenty-Seventh Stop 15 And she said unto them, Thus saith Y’hovah Eloha of Israel, Tell the man that sent you to me, 16 Thus saith Y’hovah, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of the book which the king of Yehudah hath read:
Twenty-Seventh Stop 17 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other elohim, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched. 18 But to the king of Yehudah which sent you to enquire of Y’hovah, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith Y’hovah Eloha of Israel,
Twenty-Seventh Stop As touching the words which thou hast heard; 19 Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before Y’hovah, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me;
Twenty-Seventh Stop - I also have heard thee , saith Y’hovah. 20 Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. (2Ki.22.8, 10-20).
I think the connection between stop 27, ja’akan/twistings, and YoshiYahu is made pretty plain.
Twenty-Seventh Stop Yoshi was afraid that he would see the nation rent from its inheritance, but Y’hovah assured him that his personal righteousness would hold off the final judgment and exile for as long as he occupied the throne of David, his father.
Twenty-Eighth Stop The 28th stop is at Horhagidgad, which means ‘cave of self-inflicted cuts’, where for the 14th stop in a row nothing important happened. Sounds like a Tophet cave. The refusal of the kings of Yehudah to enforce Y’hovah’s Toroth in their kingdom was the source of the self-inflicted cuts that got the nation exiled into Babylon.
Twenty-Eighth Stop - Thus saith Y’hovah, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Yehudah. (Jeremiah 22:30)
Twenty-Eighth Stop Because YeconYahu was written childless none of his seed could flourish on the throne of David. That does NOT preclude them sitting the throne of another nation, which they certainly did in Parthia, where the king HAD to be a son of David by law.
Twenty-Eighth Stop However, the fact that this verse is in Matthew’s gospel record is what convinces me that this is the genealogy of Yoseph, the husband of Miriam and NOT that of Miriam. What would be the point of mentioning the curse on YeconYahu’s sons if it was Miriam’s genealogy. As a daughter of David and not a son eligible to be king, the curse did not apply to her. This was the nadir of Israel’s national righteousness.
Twenty-Ninth Stop Stop #29 was Yotbathah, meaning ‘pleasantness’. Again, nothing important happened here. The ancestor of Yeshua corresponding here is Shealtiel, whose name means “I have enquired of Eloha.” The connection is quite plain in this instance because after the sons of YoshiYahu – all wicked men – Shealtiel must have been a breath of fresh air.
Twenty-Ninth Stop While he was not king in Babylon, the people of Yehudah still looked to him for leadership because he was the heir to David’s throne. His leadership in Babylon was likely crucial to what Yehudah and Israel, their companions, experienced there.
Thirtieth Stop Stop 30 was at Ebronah, which Wiki (it’s gotta be true!) says was the beginning of the descent and the pass from the high Arabah to Etzion Gever and the Gulf of Aqaba. Ebronah means passage and its root is avar to cross over, in this case from the highland to the valley.
Thirtieth Stop This is the 16th uneventful stop in succession, and Israel must have been getting bored. They won’t have to wait much longer for some action. The Moshiach’s patriarch that corresponds to this encampment is Zerubbabel, who lead Yehuda as they crossed BACK over the Euphrates on their return journey to haAretz.
Thirtieth Stop Zerubbabel is a compound word from H2215 zarab, meaning ‘to flow away’ (like hot wax), and H894 babel, meaning ‘confusion’. After Rithmah (Kadesh), this was the furthest from haAretz Israel got.
Thirtieth Stop They were heading towards Etzion Gever on the north shore of the Gulf of Aqaba and from this point onward b’nei Israel were spiritually headed steadily up to the land, flowing like wax from the flame; the flame representing the confusion of Babylon. We were flowing away from the confusion of babel and towards the promised rest.
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