Hanun’s treatment of David’s entourage is interpreted as an annulling of the treaty and an act of belligerence threatening war. ḥesed) has covenant connotations and may imply some sort of informal treaty between David and Nahash. Selman has suggested the relationship may be “best explained by their common hostility toward Saul” (cf. The biblical record yields no account of an event or events resulting in a pact of friendship between David and the Ammonite king Nahash (1 Chron. This is a classic scenario of how wars begin.Īndrew Hill: The parallel account of the Ammonite war is found in 2 Samuel 10:1–19. The Ammonites then hired mercenary soldiers of the Arameans to help them in hope of relief from Israelite control. They were treated somewhat as prisoners of war. The messengers were disgraced, with half their beard shaved and half their garment cut off up to the hip. The overture of David was spurned, not surprising under the circumstances. David hoped to renew a covenantal agreement (ḥesed) with the ascension of the new king. Even though an heir was appointed before the king’s death, the previous agreement could be challenged. The death of a king could trigger instability, as treaties were made between individuals. Nahash was succeeded by his son Hanun (2 Sam 10:1 1 Chron 19:2). As was the case with treaties, this probably included taxation revenues from the Ammonites. He loved us enough to become one of us and take on a sinful ancestry, yet without sin.DAVID RESPONDS TO THE AMMONITE PROVOCATION BY AGGRESSIVELY ROUTING THE AMMONITES AND THEIR SYRIAN ALLIES WITH JOAB LEADING THE TROOPSĪugust Konkel: When David came to power, he negotiated terms of agreement with Nahash that were successful in maintaining peace. He is God in the flesh, fully God and fully man. If I am wrong, I am happy to be wrong with John MacArthur.Įven if He didn’t have David’s and Rehoboam’s blood in His veins, Jesus, while sinless, is still naturally descended from sinners. France, in his commentary on Matthew, says no one knows Mary’s ancestry. I found it interesting that in reading John MacArthur’s commentary on Matthew 1 he noted that Mary was a descendent of David, but he provided no Scriptural evidence. In hind sight, I could have added just a little more explanation Sunday and probably not made so much of the bloodlines. Without a doubt, Jesus was raised in a family with Moabite and Ammonite blood in their veins. Given that, perhaps there is only little evidence that Jesus had Rehoboam’s blood in his veins, but there is copious evidence that He had David’s. Was Jesus adopted by Joseph into Joseph’s Davidic ancestry or did Jesus have David’s blood in His veins by Mary’s ancestry? I believe both. Romans 1:3 even adds the phrase, “in the flesh,” to describe Jesus’ descent from David. The Greek word for offspring is “sperma,” from which we get the English, sperm. That raises a question: “Was Jesus an heir of the covenant promises by natural descent or by adoption?” John 7:4, Acts 13:22-33 (written by Luke!), Romans 1:3, 2 Timothy 2:8, and Revelation 22:16 all indicate that Jesus is the offspring of David, thus placing Him clearly in the royal lineage. It is necessary that Jesus is a descendent of both David and Solomon because of the covenant God made with both those kings (2 Sam 7:12-13 1 Kings 9:5). I asked another pastor about that this week, and his gut instinct was to say the same thing. Tertullian believed Matthew’s to be of Mary and Luke’s to be of Joseph, while Luther believed Matthew’s to be of Joseph and Luke’s of Mary. Previously I was taught that one is the lineage of Mary, the other of Joseph. Matthew’s goes from David (descended from the Moabite Ruth) to Solomon to Rehoboam (whose mother is Naamah, the Ammonite), while Luke’s goes from David to Nathan and doesn’t mention Rehoboam. The genealogies of Matthew 1 and Luke 3 are different. As support, I referenced Jesus’ genealogy in Matthew 1. By implication then, he had not only Hebrew blood, but also Moabite and Ammonite blood. In last Sunday’s sermon, I noted that Jesus had David’s and Solomon’s blood running through His veins.
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