Judah

Y precisamente en este momento particular, providencialmente coincidente, aparece aquella misma caravana de mercaderes que resultaría decisiva para todo el desarrollo futuro de esta historia tan extensa.

Y observa cómo Judá, otro de los hermanos mayores, propone entonces una alternativa adicional a la propuesta original de Rubén.

Entonces Judá dijo a sus hermanos: "¿Qué provecho hay en que matemos a nuestro hermano y encubramos su muerte? Venid y vendámosle a los ismaelitas y no sea nuestra mano sobre él, porque él es nuestro hermano, nuestra propia carne".

Y sus hermanos convinieron con él.

Detente en esta propuesta tan pragmática de Judá, motivada, según sugiere el propio texto, tanto por cierta consideración fraternal residual: "Él es nuestro hermano, nuestra propia carne", como también por una consideración económica genuinamente práctica: "¿Qué provecho hay?" Esta combinación tan particular entre cierta moderación ética genuina y cierta motivación económica considerablemente pragmática confirma una vez más aquel patrón consistente de complejidad moral genuina que la Escritura demuestra consistentemente respecto a prácticamente todos sus personajes principales, incluso en medio de las circunstancias más genuinamente devastadoras Y cuando pasaban los madianitas mercaderes, sacaron ellos a José de la cisterna y le trajeron arriba y le vendieron a los ismaelitas por veinte piezas de plata.

Y llevaron a José a Egipto.

Detente con el corazón considerablemente apesadumbrado en la brevedad casi insoportable de esta transacción tan devastadora: veinte piezas de plata.

Jacob, a pesar de haber experimentado directamente tanto el favoritismo destructivo de sus propios padres como las consecuencias genuinamente severas que resultaron de aquella misma dinámica familiar no logró aparentemente aplicar completamente aquella misma lección hacia su propia paternidad posterior.

Some brave and experienced warriors from the tribe of Gad also defected to David while he was at the stronghold in the wilderness.

Defected to David, because remember, we had just talked about only the tribe of Judah recognized David as the next king.

All the other tribes chose Ish-bosheth, the remaining alive son of Saul, as the king.

So now it's saying, no, some brave and experienced warriors from the tribe of Gad, which is east of the Jordan River.

But I just think it's cool to get that little extra context and for us to understand what the landscape was like there.

Just having these considerations like snow on the mountaintops there at that time.

Others from Benjamin and Judah came to David at the stronghold.

Where was the stronghold? Where was he at? Go back to 1 Samuel.

The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram, and Ram the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab the father of Nashon, and Nashon the father of Salmon, and Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse, and Jesse the father of David the king.

And David was the father of Solomon by the wife of Uriah, and Solomon the father of Rehoboam, and Rehoboam the father of Abijah, and Abijah the father of Asaph, and Asaph the father of Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, and Joram the father of Uzziah, and Uzziah the father of Jotham, and Jotham the father of Ahaz, and Ahaz the father of Hezekiah, and Hezekiah the father of Manasseh, and Manasseh the father of Amos, and Amos the father of Josiah, and Josiah the father of Jeconiah and his brothers at the time of the deportation to Babylon.

And after the deportation to Babylon, Jeconiah was the father of Shealtiel, and Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel, and Zerubbabel the father of Abaiud, and Abaiud the father of Eliakim, and Eliakim the father of Azor, and Azor the father of Zadok, and Zadok the father of Achim, and Achim the father of Eliud, and Eliud the father of Eleazar, and Eleazar the father of Matan, and Matan the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ.

And assembling all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Christ was to be born.

They told him, In Bethlehem of Judea, for so it is written by the prophet.

And you, O Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah.

For from you shall come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel.

These were the sons of Israel.

Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

The sons of Judah were Er, Onan, and Shelah.

These three were born to him by the daughter of Shuah, the Kenanites.

Er, the firstborn of Judah, was wicked in the sight of the Lord, so he killed them.

And Tamar, his daughter-in-law, bore him Perez and Zerah.

All the sons of Judah were five.

The sons of Perez were Ezron and Hamul.

I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things.

It will happen that just as you were a curse among the nations, house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you and you will be a blessing.

Fear not, let your hands be strong.

For thus says the Lord of hosts, Just as I determined to harm you when your fathers provoked me to anger, says the Lord of hosts, and I did not relent, so I have again determined in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.

Fear not, these are the things that you are to do.

Speak the truth to one another, administer the judgment of truth and shalom in your gates, Do not let any of you devise evil in your hearts against your neighbor, and do not love false oaths, for I hate all these things.

They also shut the doors of the porch and put out the lamps.

They did not burn incense or offering any burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel.

The first lot came out for the Kohathites, according to their clans.

The Levites, who were descendants of Aaron the priest, were allotted 13 towns from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin.

The rest of Kohath's descendants were allotted 10 towns from the clans of the tribes of Ephraim, Dan, and half of Manasseh.

The descendants of Gershon were allotted 13 towns from the clans of the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.

The descendants of Merari, according to their clans, received 12 towns from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun.

So the Israelites allotted to the Levites these towns and their pasturelands as the Lord had commanded through Moses.

From the tribes of Judah and Simeon, they allotted the following towns by name.

These towns were assigned to the descendants of Aaron who were from the Kohathite clans of the Levites because the first lot fell to them.

To crush my young men, the Lord has trodden as in a winepress.

The Lord the virgin daughter of Judah.

For these things I weep.

My eyes run down with water because far from me is a comforter, one who restores my soul.

was written for us this indeed is a very painful book but it is a necessary book is there any hope in it is there any glimpse of a future that's brighter in this book there is and in the forthcoming weeks we shall see that But before we can contemplate and understand the mercies of God that will prevail ultimately anyway, despite the sin, we must first come to terms with the reality of the sin itself.

The sin of Israel, the sin of the church, sins ancient and sins present.

Anything that backslidden Judah was guilty of in the days of Jeremiah, backslidden Christendom is no less guilty of today.

The Lord can have mercy.

You know, our culture, when you're watching, and I realize we're watching the news, and you see all this radical, these parades and the perversion and all the craziness that's happening, all this is there is no fear, like we did in the last program in Amos.

The Lion of Judah roars, and it says, will the people not fear? Well, they're not fearing.

They do not understand that they're sinning.

And they don't understand that that sin is bringing death, a wage of death.

We're having our immersion at House of David into the water on Yom Kippur this year.

There's a place where you choose to trust the Lord.

And it may be you right now where the Lord of a spirit of King David, You know, Yeshua's of the tribe of Judah.

He is in the lineage of David.

Joshua 7 verses 1, 10-12, and 19-26.

But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing, for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing, and the anger of the Lord was kindled against the children of Israel.

And the Lord said unto Joshua, Get thee up, why lie upon thy face? Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them, for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it even among their own stuff.

Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed, neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you.