4 ¶ And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel;
5 Ought ye not to know that the LORD God of
Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David for
evera, even to him and to
his sons by a covenant of salt?
6 Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, is risen up, and hath rebelled against his lord.
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5a gave the kingdom over Israel to David for
ever Now if by 'covenant' there are two parts to that covenant.
One is upon the side of the LORD and the LORD does keep his part of the
covenant based upon the other's agreement to it. The second part of course is
for the other to keep his part of the covenant as well or else the 'covenant'
is broken. Judah's perspective of the Bible is that this covenant was not
ever broken and will always be true. But what do the facts of the matter
contribute? Fact 1: King David did brake his part of the agreement and fell
into sin breaking most all of the commandments of the LORD in the process.
Fact 2: As recorded in 1 Kings 11:29-35, Ahijah the prophet by the voice of
God divides the kingdom and gives ten parts to Jeroboam. Thus the Lord raised
up Jeroboam and despite the fact that Jeroboam would lead the northern
kingdom into idolatry is beside the point for Judah itself had also been so
led back and forth into and out of idolatry by her kings. So the perspective
here given in 2 Chronicles, as spoken by Abijah and NOT Ahijah,
is very much skewed to the Jewish view. Fact 3: The kingdom has fallen from
David's descendant's hand. The Babylonians took them captive and for 70 years
there was not kingdom of Judah. When they did return, they first had but
governers not kings. Latter those who raise up to be kings of Judah prior to
Christ's day WERE NOT of the house of David at all. And in Christ's own day,
the Jews rejected the true 'heir' under there own contrived perception when
they murdered the Son of God, the heir of David. Fact 4: The Jewish
perspective has failed to recognize the 'letter of the law of Moses' in that
Jesus' true ancestor is Mahlon, an Ephrathite or Ephraimite, Boaz merely
raising up seed to the dead according to the law (Deut. 25:5-10, Ruth 4:5-10,
and see also Messiah ben David ~ Messiah ben
Joseph). And finally fact 5: While David is of the blood of Judah by Boaz,
David is legally of the house of Joseph and Ephraim, the heir of the covenant,
as also is Jesus Christ, to whom the kingdom does belong as being the heir
of the covenant as well as of God the Father as well. The Jews have lost that
fuller understanding of the covenant, they seeing only their myopic Jewish
bend that all is of Judah without consideration to the rest of Israel,
particularly Joseph, Ephraim and even Jesus Christ.
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