10thMan

The Tenth Man, Blotted out, and	Created Date: 9-May-2017
The Blood Curse of Jeconiah	Last updated: 28-Nov-2020
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Sections

1	The Tenth Man
2	Blotted Out Those Who Worship Idols
3	Curse of Jeconiah
4	Interesting Extra Points

The Tenth Man

The Tenth Man probation from entering the Congregation was a law written in Deuteronomy 25:5-10. It did not mean the people affected by it were not Saved or loved by God

Notice in Ruth 4:12, there is a salutation of blessing for wishes of the future success is given by wishing blessing like the house of Pharez. We learn from the Scriptures that Pharez is the 10th Generation grandfather of the future King David.

The problem with King David's lineage, is Pharez is a son conceived in an illegitimate way by Judah. Judah is part of the royal blood line and so is King David. In Deuteronomy 23:2, an illegitimate man cannot enter the Congregation of the Lord until 10 generations have transpired.

Ruth 4:12	And let thy house be like the house of Pharez, whom Tamar bare unto Judah, of the seed which the Lord shall give the of this young Woman.
Deuteronomy 23:2	A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord, even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the Lord.

In Genesis 38, there is the account of Judah conceiving an illegitimate son. (color added to help in differentiating clarity) The sequence of events are:

Judah and his wife Shuah had a son named Er.

Next Judah and his wife Shuah had a second son named Onan.

After Onan, Judah and his wife Shuah had a third son named Shelah.

Shuah dies after a period of time has transpired so she has no more sons, with Judah after the first three.

Later after Er had grown, Judah got a wife for Er named Tamar where they did not have offspring.

Both Er and Onan's lives were taken by the Lord because they were very evil.

By the Levirate law of a brother taking the place in the death of a brother to give the wife offspring, Judah promised his third born son Shelah to Tamar after Shelah becomes older. (The Levirate law of marriage is in Deut 25:5-10)

Deuteronomy 25:5-10

5 If brothers are living together and one of them dies without a son, his widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband s brother shall take her and marry her and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her. 6 The first son she bears shall carry on the name of the dead brother so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel. 7 However, if a man does not want to marry his brother s wife, she shall go to the elders at the town gate and say, My husband s brother refuses to carry on his brother s name in Israel. He will not fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to me. 8 Then the elders of his town shall summon him and talk to him. If he persists in saying, I do not want to marry her, 9 his brother s widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, take off one of his sandals, spit in his face and say, This is what is done to the man who will not build up his brother s family line. 10 That man s line shall be known in Israel as The Family of the Unsandaled.

Tamar waits for Shelah to perform his duty of the levirate marriage but it never happens. After significant time of Tamar waiting, Tamar resorts to us use trickery to get offspring. Tamar posed as a harlot and unbeknownst to Judah, became pregnant by Judah. The event was able to transpire by Tamar, because time had gone by and her change of appearance with veils over the face as the custom of that day were involved. Tamar later gave birth to twin offspring named Zerah and Pharez (Perez in some translations). Note that there is more to this event but in summary, Judah acknowledge his failures and never again had sexual relations with Tamar.

Now, notice the lineage given in Luke and Mathew concerning Jesus Christ where Mathew starts with Abraham and the tenth generation of Pharez is King David.

Two Important Points on tenth man from Pharez:

We know that King David was not allowed to build a Temple because the Lord said King David was a man of Blood. But interestingly, King David was the 10th generation of Pharez, so King David could not have entered the Temple if he had built it.
God let King David know that it was because David was a man of war but it is the opinion of this author that God also was being kind to David to not mention also the problem of the 10th man.

1 Chronicles 22:8-10

8 But this word of the Lord came to me: You have shed much blood and have fought many wars. You are not to build a house for my Name, because you have shed much blood on the earth in my sight. 9 But you will have a son who will be a man of peace and rest, and I will give him rest from all his enemies on every side. His name will be Solomon, and I will grant Israel peace and quiet during his reign. 10 He is the one who will build a house for my Name. He will be my son, and I will be his father. And I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.

In scripture given in Luke 3:31 - 34, we have the lineage of 10 generations from Pharez to King David.

	Judah
1	Pharez/Perez	Ten
2	Hezron	Generations
3	Ram	to take
4	Amminadab	care of the
5	Nahshon	illegitimate
6	Salmon	son not
7	Boaz	allowed to
8	Obed	be in
9	Jesse	congregation
10	King David

Blotted Out those who worship Idols

Another interesting aspect in Mathew's generations is he omits three names in the House of David. The three that are missing were idolaters Ahaziah, Joash and Amaziah.

In Deuteronomy 29, we learned that God is holding the people of Israel accountable because they knew:

About the times of captivity in Egypt which they were rescued from.
The miracles that God performed against Egypt.
The miracles that God performed to take care of Israel as they left Egypt.

The problems that some of the people in Israel did involved worshipping false gods of wood and stone. There was a warning given by God in Deuteronomy 29:16-21 which meant they would lose their inheritance, privileges in the promise land and Rewards in Heaven. They were still saved from the bondage of Egypt, but they would lose their inheritance.

Luke 3:31 - 34

31 the son of Melea, the son of Menna, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the son of David, 32 the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon, 33 the son of Amminadab, the son of Arni, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah, 34 the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,

Blotted Out those who worship Idols

Another interesting aspect in Mathew's generations is he omits three names in the House of David. The three that are missing were idolaters Ahaziah, Joash and Amaziah.

In Deuteronomy 29, we learned that God is holding the people of Israel accountable because they knew:

About the times of captivity in Egypt which they were rescued from.
The miracles that God performed against Egypt.
The miracles that God performed to take care of Israel as they left Egypt.

The problems that some of the people in Israel did involve worshipping false gods of wood and stone. There was a warning given by God in Deuteronomy 29:16-21 which meant they would lose their inheritance, privileges in the promise land and Rewards in Heaven. They were still saved from the bondage of Egypt, but they would lose their inheritance.

Deuteronomy 29:16-21

16 You yourselves know how we lived in Egypt and how we passed through the countries on the way here. 17 You saw among them their detestable images and idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold. 18 Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the Lord our God to go and worship the gods of those nations; make sure there is no root among you that produces such bitter poison. 19 When such a person hears the words of this oath and they invoke a blessing on themselves, thinking, I will be safe, even though I persist in going my own way, they will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry. 20 The Lord will never be willing to forgive them; his wrath and zeal will burn against them. All the curses written in this book will fall on them, and the Lord will blot out their names from under heaven. 21 The Lord will single them out from all the tribes of Israel for disaster, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.

We need to recall that these three men were in Dispensational Period that God was clearly known about to Israel, and this applied directly to Israel. There is distinct difference if someone, like Noah who was Idol worshipping man, but called out of it along with any of us who did not know the Lord and get Saved. Furthermore, as Christians we will suffer consequences for false worship albeit not loss of Salvation if we are truly Saved.

Notice in Mathew 1:7-9 that the highlighted three names are omitted!

Verse	Father	Notes
7	Soloman
7	Rehoboam
7	Abijah
7	Asa
8	Jehoshaphat
8	Jehoram	and Jehoram begat Uzziah
	Ahaziah *
	Joash *
	Amaziah *
8	Uzziah
9	Jotham

Mathew 1:7-9

7 and Solomon begat Rehoboam; and Rehoboam begat Abijah; and Abijah begat Asa; 8 and Asa begat Jehoshaphat; and Jehoshaphat begat Joram; and Joram begat Uzziah; 9 and Uzziah begat Jotham; and Jotham begat Ahaz; and Ahaz begat Hezekiah;

Curse of Jeconiah

In the book of Jeremiah there is the King Jehoiakim, who does so many very evil things against the Lord, that Jeremiah records the penalty from God on Jehoiakim.

Notes:

that Coniah is equivalent for Jeconiah, Jehoichin and Akkadian as the son/sibling of King Jehoiakm.
King Josiah was killed by the King Necho II of Egypt, and Necho appointed King Jehoiakim over Jeconiah, which is a little bit confusing as described externally in this wiki link, which is incorrect in some matters.

Jeremiah 22:24-30

24 As I live, saith Jehovah, though Coniah (Jeconiah) the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence; 25 and I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand of them of whom thou art afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans. 26 And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die. 27 But to the land whereunto their soul longeth to return, thither shall they not return. 28 Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? is he a vessel wherein none delighteth? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into the land which they know not? 29 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of Jehovah. 30 Thus saith Jehovah, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days; for no more shall a man of his seed prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling in Judah.

The problem with this edict by God, is Jesus Christ had to come through the Royal Blood line where God just pronounced a curse on the Royal Blood Line. The problem was solved through two methods where the first is the virgin birth and the second was through t he Daughters of Zelophehad law written into law by Joshua as instructed by God.

Isaiah 7:14	Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, a virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel.
Luke 1:34	Mary said to the angel, How can this be, since I am a virgin?

In the New Testament, we are given two Genealogies and the linage of Jesus Christ.

Mary's lineage goes through one of King David's sons named Nathan, and
Joseph's lineage goes through another of King David's son's named Solomon.

As we know from the scriptures, the Father of Jesus Christ is God the Father and is not Joseph. Joseph was Jesus Christ's legal step-father, and this solved the problem of the curse off Jeconiah. To understand more on how God took care of this problem for the family line of the Messiah read The Daughters of Zelophehad.

Notice that in the scriptures that Jeconiah is taken away into captivity in Babylon. After the captivity Salathiel, the daughter of King Jeconiah, marries to continue on the royal line as an adopted line. This is also the case Zerubbabel who was married into the royal line.

Note: as pointed out above, Jeconiah and Coniah, are alternative names for Jehoiachin.

Interesting Extra Points

These three points can be seen in the topic on the Royal Blood Line:

There were Fourteen generations from Abraham to David.
There were Fourteen generations from David until the carrying away into Babylon. Recall the three that were blotted out from the Seventeen.
There were Fourteen generations from Babylon unto Jesus Christ.

What to read next?

(a) The Lineage of Jesus Christ, (b) Adam's Lineage carries the message of the Gospel, (c) the Royal Blood Line of Jesus Christ, (d) the Daughters of Zelophehad was required for the Royal Blood Line of Jesus Christ, (e) Three Days in the Bible.