The sequence of events which happend next are quite remarkable. In King David's waning years, Absolom, David's son, with the support of Judah did rebell against King David's rule. It was Israel and Ephraim which came to the aid of King David against Absolom's and Judah's rebellion. Yet after the death of Absolom, upon King David's victory. It was King David which entered back into Jerusalem and selected Judah over Israel to the pleasure of the Jews and dismay of Israel despite Ephraim and/or Israel's greater claim in King David by right of legal inheritence. And this fact is well recorded in the record of the scriptures.

Joab, who was David's nephew, takes king David to task for the way in which David, after the war with Judah and Absolom, treats his friends as being Israel as Ephraim, and his enemies in Judah who had sided with and supported Absolom against David. David not only scorns Israel who fought to restore him to his throne, but David also replaced Joab his true flesh and blood of his sister as his head captain with an inlaw who he said was blood and flesh of his blood and flesh who was part of the forces with Judah and Absalom against David in the person of Amasa (2 Samuel 17:25 & 19:13).

"And Joab came into the house to the king, and said, Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, which this day have saved thy life, and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters, and the lives of thy wives, and the lives of thy concubines, In that thou lovest thine enemies, and hatest thy friends. For thou has declared this day, that thou regardest neither princes nor servants for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well." ~ 2 Samuel 19:5-6

Now after David selects Judah his enemies over Israel his friends, it is Judah David's enemies who take David into Jerusalem seeing he has selected them over Israel. And Israel come unto David in inquiry as to why he has done thus unto them. And this is the record on this event.

¶"And, behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said unto the king, Why have our brethern the men of Judah stolen thee away, and have brought the king, and his household, and all David's men with him, over Jordon? And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king is near of kin to us [Here Judah throws in the face of Israel that David was of the bloodline of Boaz though known to all as the legal heir of the House of Ephraim and Joseph by right of Mahlon and the house of Elimelech. It is as to say 'blood' in thinker than the rights of the Law of Moses and David is our kin by blood though the law states that Obed David's ancestor was legally of the House of Mahlon and Elimelech, Ephraimites.]: wherefore then be ye angry for this matter? have we eaten at all of the king's cost? or hath he given us any gift? And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king [Even at this early date the line had been drawn, the ten parts where the ten tribes of Israel and the two were Judah and those of Benjamin who support Judah and Absalom aginst David but who where now confederate with him after Absalom's death.], and we have also more right in David [The MORE right in David that Israel under Ephraim had in David was by right of the Law of Moses. Obed was the legal and rightful heir of the Ephraimite house of Mahlon and Elimelech. David was the legal and rightful heir to the firstborn blessings of leadership and rule by the legal vicarious process whenin Boaz had raise up seed unto Mahlon and the house of Elimelech by his marriage to Mahlon's wife Ruth. By right of the Law of God, David was Israel's and not Judah's to claim. But Judah and David had this day buried the axe of division even deeper between Judah and Israel which would later surface in the division of the kingdom during the days of Jeroboam and Rehoboam.] than ye; why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel." ~ 2 Samuel 19;41-43

Thus again Judah's hatred for Israel or Joseph in the form of Ephraim did bare sway. It was the same hatred which Judah had for Joseph when he fathered the plan to sell Joseph his brother into slavery. Despite David's error of selecting Judah over Israel and Judah's vexation of Israel, Israel remainded true to the LORD's anointed king by right for all the remaining days of David and his son Solomon despite the great burdens which both David and Solomon placed upon the people. And it was not until the days of Rehoboam that Israel did split from Judah into its own Kingdom apart from the house of David for the promised overbearing weight of the burdens placed upon the people by the hand of Rehoboam. And even then it was a prophet who placed Jeroboam to be king of Israel though Jeroboam failed greatly and was not a righteoud king.

It is a coureous manner in which the stick of Judah, the Bible of the Jews did report Israel's withdrawal from being ruled by Rehoboam. Israel had stated that they had the 'greater right in David' which referred to the fact that David was legally and rightfully of the house of Ephraim through Mahlon the Ephrathite to who Boaz did raise up seed in the birth of Obed by Ruth. But by the time of Israels refusal to be ruled by Rehoboam, David's grandson, the Jewish prepared record records that Israel did retort by stating "What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse . . ." ~ (1 Kings 12:16; 2 Chronicles 10:16). And the compilers of the records make it that Israel did rebell agianst Rehoboam rather than Rehoboam did lose the right to rule Israel because of his own wickedness.

What Part Did Ephraim as Israel Have in David?

Now what 'part' and 'inheritance' did 'Israel' as Ephraim, have in David and Jesse in the first place that the Jewish commentators of the scriptures would fell obliged to disavow them of at this juncture in time? Israel was still Israel and would continue to carry the proper name of the covenant as betowed upon Jacob. They were Israel of the covenant. What part did they hold in Jesse and David? And how could men desavow what God had commanded to be done?

Christ by David's right in Jesse, Obed, and thence through Mahlon, Elimelech and that line of Ephraim's right, had become the promised line of ancestry to the Messiah. David who committed grevious sins could only remove himself from the eternal line of right in heaven to that ancetry. In heaven such unrighteous 'links' are removed, but the line of the covenant do remain. Terah, Abraham's father was wicked, but Abraham still retained the right of the covenant of the fathers through his linage back to the righteous fathers. And just as Terah may well be removed from the linage in heaven, so well David be removed in heaven but still be of the earthly line. And David could not disavow himself from the promises made to Abarham, Isaac, Jacob, Rachel, Joseph and Ephraim just by prefering Judah over Israel. And Israel, like Abraham removing himself from Terah's rule, can not resend the covenants of Ephraim in the last days and in relation to the ancestry of the savior just because they removed themselves from the unrighteous rule of Rehoboam and the unrighteous house of David. That right and covenant remained in Joseph as the 'brithright' despite Judah having the 'chief eartly ruler' in mortality. And Shiloh, which never it was said would be of Judah in Judah's blessing, will end any such claim to rule by Judah as the right of the firstborn, Ephraim will prevail in the kingdom of heaven.