Numbers 27-28 The Daughters of Zelophehad
Proverbs 2
This month, beginning on April Fool’s Day, we will read a chapter per day in Proverbs. We also start the book of Deuteronomy, Moses’ last sermon, and discover the Shema. The Shema starts with:
Deut 6:5 You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
It is appropriate to link Wisdom in Proverbs and the Shema because
The beginning of wisdom is fear of the Lord (Prov 1: 7).
This is in defiance of a month that begins with the Fool’s Day.
As for the daughters of Zelophehad in Numbers… This fascinating interlude points at a father without sons adopting the son of a daughter.
•Torah exception on rules of inheritance
–Requested of Moses Numbers 27:1-11
–Granted by Joshua Joshua 17:3-6
•Husband adopted by father of the bride
Ezra 2:61=Neh 7:63; Num 32:41, cf. 1 Chr 2:21-23, 34-35
•Anticipates the lineage of Christ
–Joseph was the son-in-law of Heli Luke 3:23
nomi,zw, nomizo, reckoned as by law
•Matthew v. Luke’s Genealogies
•Matthew goes through the LEGAL line down to Joseph, the LEGAL father of Joseph
•In first 17 verses of Matthew, he makes the case that Jesus had LEGAL title to the throne of David.
•Messiah, the Royal line would come from Judah (Gen 49: 10)
•Messiah would come from the line of David (Ruth 4: 22; Sam 7: 11-16)
•Succession of the Kings of Judah – with a few exceptions – proved to be a dismal chain
•Finally come to Jeconiah – aka Jehoiachin – who proves so bad that God pronounces a “Blood Curse” on the rest of his line: Jer 22: 30
Thus saith the LORD, 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 Judah.
Jeremiah 22:30
* Also called Jehoiachin
•How could Jesus come from the Royal line if there’s a curse on the line?
•Luke reveals the solution
•Hinted at the Garden of Eden:
–“The Seed of the Woman…” Genesis 3:15
•Prophesied by Isaiah:
–A Virgin shall conceive…” Isaiah 7:14
•An “end run” on the blood curse on the royal line Jeremiah 22:30•Hinted at the Garden of Eden:
–“The Seed of the Woman…” Genesis 3:15
•Prophesied by Isaiah:
–A Virgin shall conceive…” Isaiah 7:14
•An “end run” on the blood curse on the royal line Jeremiah 22:30
Jay