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data-title="Давидова династия" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinastia_de_David" title="Dinastia de David – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Dinastia de David" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9F%CE%AF%CE%BA%CE%BF%CF%82_%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%85_%CE%94%CE%B1%CE%B2%CE%AF%CE%B4" title="Οίκος του Δαβίδ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Οίκος του Δαβίδ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_de_David" title="Casa de David – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Casa de David" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%87_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%88%D8%AF" title="سلسله داوود – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="سلسله داوود" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maison_de_David" title="Maison de David – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Maison de David" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8B%A4%EC%9C%97_%EC%99%95%EC%A1%B0" title="다윗 왕조 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="다윗 왕조" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garis_Daud" title="Garis Daud – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Garis Daud" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linea_di_Davide" title="Linea di Davide – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Linea di Davide" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he 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mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tranon%27_i_Davida" title="Tranon' i Davida – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Tranon' i Davida" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huis_van_David" title="Huis van David – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Huis van David" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinastia_de_Davi" title="Dinastia de Davi – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Dinastia de Davi" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link 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In <a href="/wiki/Judaism" title="Judaism">Judaism</a>, it is based on texts from the <a href="/wiki/Hebrew_Bible" title="Hebrew Bible">Hebrew Bible</a>, as well as on later <a href="/wiki/Jewish_history" title="Jewish history">Jewish traditions</a>. </p><p>According to the biblical narrative, David of the <a href="/wiki/Tribe_of_Judah" title="Tribe of Judah">Tribe of Judah</a> engaged in a protracted conflict with <a href="/wiki/Ish-bosheth" title="Ish-bosheth">Ish-bosheth</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Tribe_of_Benjamin" title="Tribe of Benjamin">Tribe of Benjamin</a> after the latter succeeded his father <a href="/wiki/Saul" title="Saul">Saul</a> to become the second king of an amalgamated <a href="/wiki/History_of_ancient_Israel_and_Judah" title="History of ancient Israel and Judah">Israel and Judah</a>. Amidst this struggle, <a href="/wiki/Yahweh" title="Yahweh">God</a> had sent his prophet <a href="/wiki/Samuel" title="Samuel">Samuel</a> to anoint David as the true king of the <a href="/wiki/Israelites" title="Israelites">Israelites</a>. Following Ish-bosheth's assassination at the hands of his own army captains, David officially acceded to the throne around 1010 BCE, replacing the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Saul" title="House of Saul">House of Saul</a> with his own and becoming the country's third king.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was succeeded by his son <a href="/wiki/Solomon" title="Solomon">Solomon</a>, whose mother was <a href="/wiki/Bathsheba" title="Bathsheba">Bathsheba</a>. Solomon's death led to the rejection of the House of David by most of the <a href="/wiki/Twelve_Tribes_of_Israel" title="Twelve Tribes of Israel">Twelve Tribes of Israel</a>, with only Judah and Benjamin remaining loyal: the dissenters chose <a href="/wiki/Jeroboam" title="Jeroboam">Jeroboam</a> as their monarch and formed the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Israel_(Samaria)" title="Kingdom of Israel (Samaria)">Kingdom of Israel</a> in the north (<a href="/wiki/Samaria" title="Samaria">Samaria</a>); while the loyalists kept Solomon's son <a href="/wiki/Rehoboam" title="Rehoboam">Rehoboam</a> as their monarch and formed the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Judah" title="Kingdom of Judah">Kingdom of Judah</a> in the south (<a href="/wiki/Judea" title="Judea">Judea</a>). With the success of <a href="/wiki/Jeroboam%27s_Revolt" title="Jeroboam's Revolt">Jeroboam's Revolt</a> having severed Israel's connection to the House of David, only the Judahite monarchs, except <a href="/wiki/Athaliah" title="Athaliah">Athaliah</a>, were part of the Davidic line. </p><p>In the aftermath of the <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Jerusalem_(587_BC)" title="Siege of Jerusalem (587 BC)">Babylonian siege of Jerusalem</a> around 587 BCE, <a href="/wiki/Solomon%27s_Temple" title="Solomon's Temple">Solomon's Temple</a> was destroyed and the Kingdom of Judah fell to the <a href="/wiki/Neo-Babylonian_Empire" title="Neo-Babylonian Empire">Neo-Babylonian Empire</a>. Nearly 450 years later, the <a href="/wiki/Hasmonean_dynasty" title="Hasmonean dynasty">Hasmonean dynasty</a> established the first independent Jewish kingdom since the Babylonian conquest, though it was not considered to be connected to the Davidic line nor to the Tribe of Judah. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Jewish_eschatology" title="Jewish eschatology">Jewish eschatology</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Messiah_in_Judaism" title="Messiah in Judaism">Messiah</a> (<span title="Hebrew-language text"><span lang="he" dir="rtl">מָשִׁיחַ</span></span>) will be a Jewish king whose paternal bloodline traces to David. He is expected to rule over the <a href="/wiki/Jews" title="Jews">Jewish people</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Messianic_Age" title="Messianic Age">Messianic Age</a> and in the <a href="/wiki/World_to_come" title="World to come">world to come</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-schochet_moshiah_ben_yossef2_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-schochet_moshiah_ben_yossef2-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-JVL_messiah2_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JVL_messiah2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-JVL_The_Messiah2_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JVL_The_Messiah2-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Historicity">Historicity</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Davidic_line&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Historicity"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:JRSLM_300116_Tel_Dan_Stele_01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/JRSLM_300116_Tel_Dan_Stele_01.jpg/220px-JRSLM_300116_Tel_Dan_Stele_01.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="213" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/JRSLM_300116_Tel_Dan_Stele_01.jpg/330px-JRSLM_300116_Tel_Dan_Stele_01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/JRSLM_300116_Tel_Dan_Stele_01.jpg/440px-JRSLM_300116_Tel_Dan_Stele_01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1455" data-file-height="1408" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Tel_Dan_Stele" class="mw-redirect" title="Tel Dan Stele">Tel Dan Stele</a>, with mention of the "House of David" highlighted in white.</figcaption></figure> <p>Very little is conclusively known about the House of David. The <a href="/wiki/Tel_Dan_Stele" class="mw-redirect" title="Tel Dan Stele">Tel Dan Stele</a> mentions the death of the reigning king from "BYTDWD",<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPioske2015180_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPioske2015180-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (interpreted as "House of David") and thus far is the only extrabiblical explicit mention of <a href="/wiki/David" title="David">David</a> himself. The stele is dated to circa 840 BCE; however, the name of the Davidic king is not totally preserved, as much of the stele has not survived since the 9th century BCE. All that remains of the name is the final syllable, the extremely common <a href="/wiki/Theophoric_name#Yahweh" title="Theophoric name">theophoric suffix</a> <i>-yahū</i>. Because the stele coincides the death of the Davidic king with the death of <a href="/wiki/Jehoram_of_Israel" title="Jehoram of Israel">[Jeho]ram</a>, the king of the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Samaria" class="mw-redirect" title="Kingdom of Samaria">Kingdom of Samaria</a>, scholars have reconstructed the second slain king as <a href="/wiki/Ahaziah_of_Judah" title="Ahaziah of Judah">Ahaziah of Judah</a>, the only king contemporary to Jehoram with a name ending in <i>-yahū</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The earliest unambiguously<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> attested king from the Davidic line is <a href="/wiki/Uzziah" title="Uzziah">Uzziah</a>, who reigned in the 8th century BCE, about 75 years after Ahaziah, who is named on bullae seals belonging to his servants Abijah and Shubnayahu.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Uzziah may also be mentioned in the annals of <a href="/wiki/Tiglath-Pileser_III" title="Tiglath-Pileser III">Tiglath-Pileser III</a>; however, the texts are largely fragmentary.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Additionally, a <a href="/wiki/Uzziah#"Uzziah_Tablet"_funerary_inscription" title="Uzziah">tombstone</a> dated to the <a href="/wiki/Second_Temple_Period" class="mw-redirect" title="Second Temple Period">Second Temple Period</a> claiming to mark the grave (or, reburial) site of Uzziah, was discovered in a convent on the <a href="/wiki/Mount_of_Olives" title="Mount of Olives">Mount of Olives</a> in 1931, but there is no way of determining if the remains were genuinely Uzziah's as the stone had to have been carved more than 700 years after Uzziah died and was originally interred, and the tablet's provenance remains a mystery. A controversial artefact called the <a href="/wiki/Jehoash_Tablet" class="mw-redirect" title="Jehoash Tablet">Jehoash Tablet</a> recalls deeds performed by <a href="/wiki/Jehoash_of_Judah" title="Jehoash of Judah">Jehoash of Judah</a>, who reigned about 44 years before Uzziah; however, scholars are tensely divided on whether or not the inscription is genuine. After Uzziah, each successive king of Judah is attested to in some form, with the exception of <a href="/wiki/Amon_of_Judah" title="Amon of Judah">Amon of Judah</a>: <a href="/wiki/Jotham" title="Jotham">Jotham</a>, Uzziah's successor, is named on the seals of his own son and successor, <a href="/wiki/Ahaz" title="Ahaz">Ahaz</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who ruled from 732 to 716 BCE. <a href="/wiki/Hezekiah" title="Hezekiah">Hezekiah</a>, Ahaz's son, is attested to by numerous royal seals<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Sennacherib%27s_Annals" title="Sennacherib's Annals">Sennacherib's Annals</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Manasseh_of_Judah" title="Manasseh of Judah">Manasseh</a> is recorded giving tribute to <a href="/wiki/Esarhaddon" title="Esarhaddon">Esarhaddon</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Josiah" title="Josiah">Josiah</a> has no relics explicitly naming him; however, seals belonging to his son Eliashib<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and officials <a href="/wiki/Nathan-melech" title="Nathan-melech">Nathan-melech</a><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Asaiah" title="Asaiah">Asaiah</a><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> have been discovered; and the kings <a href="/wiki/Jehoahaz_of_Judah" title="Jehoahaz of Judah">Jehoahaz II</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jehoiakim" title="Jehoiakim">Jehoiakim</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Zedekiah" title="Zedekiah">Zedekiah</a> are never explicitly named in historical records but are instead alluded to; however, <a href="/wiki/Jeconiah" title="Jeconiah">Jeconiah</a> is mentioned by name in <a href="/wiki/Jehoiachin%27s_Rations_Tablets" title="Jehoiachin's Rations Tablets">Babylonian documents</a> detailing the rations he and his sons were given while held prisoner during the <a href="/wiki/Babylonian_captivity" title="Babylonian captivity">Babylonian captivity</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The origins of the dynasty, on the other hand, are shrouded in mystery. The Tel Dan Stele, as aforementioned, remains the only mention of David himself outside the Bible, and the historical reliability of the United Monarchy of Israel is archaeologically weak. The <a href="/wiki/Stepped_Stone_Structure" title="Stepped Stone Structure">Stepped Stone Structure</a> and <a href="/wiki/Large_Stone_Structure" title="Large Stone Structure">Large Stone Structure</a> in <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a>, assuming <a href="/wiki/Eilat_Mazar" title="Eilat Mazar">Eilat Mazar</a>'s contested stratigraphic dating of the structures to the Iron Age I is accurate, show that Jerusalem was at least somewhat populated in King David's time, and lends some credence to the biblical claim that Jerusalem was originally a Canaanite fortress; however, Jerusalem seems to have been barely developed until long after David's death,<sup id="cite_ref-mazar_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mazar-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> bringing into question the possibility that it could have been the imperial capital described in the Bible. In David's time, the capital probably served as little more than a formidable citadel, and the Davidic "kingdom" was most likely closer to a loosely-confederated regional polity,<sup id="cite_ref-mazar_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mazar-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> albeit a relatively substantial one. On the other hand, excavations at <a href="/wiki/Khirbet_Qeiyafa" title="Khirbet Qeiyafa">Khirbet Qeiyafa</a><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Eglon_(Canaan)" class="mw-redirect" title="Eglon (Canaan)">Eglon</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as well as structures from <a href="/wiki/Tel_Hazor" title="Tel Hazor">Hazor</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gezer" title="Gezer">Gezer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tel_Megiddo" title="Tel Megiddo">Megiddo</a> and other sites conventionally dated to the 10th century BCE, are interpreted by many scholars to show that Judah was capable of accommodating large-scale urban societies centuries before minimalist scholars claim,<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and some have taken the physical archaeology of tenth-century <a href="/wiki/Canaan" title="Canaan">Canaan</a> as consistent with the former existence of a unified state on its territory,<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as archaeological findings demonstrate substantial development and growth at several sites, plausibly related to the tenth century.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Even so, as for David and his immediate descendants themselves, the position of some scholars, as described by <a href="/wiki/Israel_Finkelstein" title="Israel Finkelstein">Israel Finkelstein</a> and <a href="/wiki/Neil_Asher_Silberman" title="Neil Asher Silberman">Neil Silberman</a>, authors of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Bible_Unearthed" title="The Bible Unearthed">The Bible Unearthed</a></i>, espouses that David and Solomon may well be based on "certain historical kernels", and probably did exist in their own right, but their historical counterparts simply could not have ruled over a wealthy lavish empire as described in the Bible, and were more likely chieftains of a comparatively modest Israelite society in Judah and not regents over a kingdom proper.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Kingdom_of_Israel_and_Judah">Kingdom of Israel and Judah</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Davidic_line&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Kingdom of Israel and Judah"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Kings_of_Israel_and_Judah" title="Kings of Israel and Judah">Kings of Israel and Judah</a></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Genealogy_of_the_kings_of_Israel_and_Judah.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Genealogy_of_the_kings_of_Israel_and_Judah.svg/500px-Genealogy_of_the_kings_of_Israel_and_Judah.svg.png" decoding="async" width="500" height="430" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Genealogy_of_the_kings_of_Israel_and_Judah.svg/750px-Genealogy_of_the_kings_of_Israel_and_Judah.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Genealogy_of_the_kings_of_Israel_and_Judah.svg/1000px-Genealogy_of_the_kings_of_Israel_and_Judah.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="697" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption>The genealogy of the <a href="/wiki/Kings_of_Israel_and_Judah" title="Kings of Israel and Judah">kings of Judah, along with the kings of Israel</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>According to the <a href="/wiki/Tanakh" class="mw-redirect" title="Tanakh">Tanakh</a>, upon being chosen and becoming king, one was customarily anointed with <a href="/wiki/Holy_anointing_oil" title="Holy anointing oil">holy oil</a> poured on one's head. In David's case, this was done by the <a href="/wiki/Prophet" title="Prophet">prophet</a> <a href="/wiki/Samuel_(Bible)" class="mw-redirect" title="Samuel (Bible)">Samuel</a>. </p><p>Initially, David was king over the <a href="/wiki/Tribe_of_Judah" title="Tribe of Judah">Tribe of Judah</a> only and ruled from <a href="/wiki/Hebron" title="Hebron">Hebron</a>, but after seven and a half years, the other <a href="/wiki/Israelite" class="mw-redirect" title="Israelite">Israelite</a> tribes, who found themselves leaderless after the death of <a href="/wiki/Ish-bosheth" title="Ish-bosheth">Ish-bosheth</a>, chose him to be their king as well.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>All subsequent kings in both the ancient first united <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Israel_(united_monarchy)" title="Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy)">Kingdom of Israel</a> and the later <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Judah" title="Kingdom of Judah">Kingdom of Judah</a> claimed direct descent from King David to validate their claim to the throne in order to rule over the Israelite tribes. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Division_after_Solomon's_death"><span id="Division_after_Solomon.27s_death"></span>Division after Solomon's death</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Davidic_line&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Division after Solomon's death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After the death of David's son, <a href="/wiki/King_Solomon" class="mw-redirect" title="King Solomon">King Solomon</a>, the ten northern tribes of the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Israel_(Samaria)" title="Kingdom of Israel (Samaria)">Kingdom of Israel</a> rejected the Davidic line, refusing to accept Solomon's son, <a href="/wiki/Rehoboam" title="Rehoboam">Rehoboam</a>, and instead chose as king <a href="/wiki/Jeroboam" title="Jeroboam">Jeroboam</a> and formed the northern <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Israel_(Samaria)" title="Kingdom of Israel (Samaria)">Kingdom of Israel</a>. This kingdom was conquered by the <a href="/wiki/Neo-Assyrian_Empire" title="Neo-Assyrian Empire">Neo-Assyrian Empire</a> in the 8th century BCE which exiled much of the Northern Kingdom population and ended its sovereign status. The bulk population of the Northern Kingdom of Israel was forced to relocate to Mesopotamia and mostly disappeared from history as <a href="/wiki/Lost_Ten_Tribes" class="mw-redirect" title="Lost Ten Tribes">The Ten Lost Tribes</a> or intermixed with exiled Judean populations two centuries later, while the remaining Israelite peoples in Samaria highlands have become known as <a href="/wiki/Samaritans" title="Samaritans">Samaritans</a> during the classic era and to modern times. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_Exilarchate">The Exilarchate</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Davidic_line&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: The Exilarchate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Exilarch" title="Exilarch">Exilarch</a></div> <p>Later rabbinical authorities granted the office of exilarch to family members that traced its patrilineal<sup id="cite_ref-auto_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> descent from <a href="/wiki/David" title="David">David</a>, King of Israel. The highest official of Babylonian Jewry was the <a href="/wiki/Exilarch" title="Exilarch">exilarch</a> (<a href="/wiki/Reish_Galuta" class="mw-redirect" title="Reish Galuta">Reish Galuta</a>, "Head of the Diaspora"). Those who held the position traced their ancestry to the House of David in the male line.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_32-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The position holder was regarded as a king-in-waiting, residing in Babylonia in the <a href="/wiki/Achaemenid_Empire" title="Achaemenid Empire">Achaemenid Empire</a> as well as during the classic era. The <a href="/wiki/Seder_Olam_Zutta" title="Seder Olam Zutta">Seder Olam Zutta</a> attributes the office to <a href="/wiki/Zerubbabel" title="Zerubbabel">Zerubbabel</a>, a member of the Davidic line, who is mentioned as one of the leaders of the Jewish community in the 6th century BC, holding the title of Achaemenid Governor of <a href="/wiki/Yehud_Medinata" title="Yehud Medinata">Yehud Medinata</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Hasmonean_and_Herodian_periods">Hasmonean and Herodian periods</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Davidic_line&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Hasmonean and Herodian periods"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Hasmonean_dynasty" title="Hasmonean dynasty">Hasmonean dynasty</a> and <a href="/wiki/Herodian_dynasty" title="Herodian dynasty">Herodian dynasty</a></div> <p>The Hasmoneans, also known as the <a href="/wiki/Maccabees" title="Maccabees">Maccabees</a>, established their own monarchy in <a href="/wiki/Judea" title="Judea">Judea</a> following their <a href="/wiki/Maccabean_Revolt" title="Maccabean Revolt">revolt</a> against the <a href="/wiki/Hellenistic" class="mw-redirect" title="Hellenistic">Hellenistic</a> <a href="/wiki/Seleucid_dynasty" title="Seleucid dynasty">Seleucid dynasty</a>. The Hasmoneans were not considered connected to the Davidic line nor to the <a href="/wiki/Tribe_of_Judah" title="Tribe of Judah">Tribe of Judah</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Levites" class="mw-redirect" title="Levites">Levites</a> had always been excluded from the Israelite monarchy, so when the Maccabees assumed the throne in order to rededicate the defiled <a href="/wiki/Second_Temple" title="Second Temple">Second Temple</a>, a cardinal rule was broken. According to scholars within <a href="/wiki/Orthodox_Judaism" title="Orthodox Judaism">Orthodox Judaism</a>, this is considered to have contributed to their downfall and the eventual downfall of Judea; internal strife allowing for Roman occupation and the violent installation of <a href="/wiki/Herod_the_Great" title="Herod the Great">Herod the Great</a> as <a href="/wiki/Client_state" title="Client state">client king</a> over the <a href="/wiki/Judea_(Roman_province)" class="mw-redirect" title="Judea (Roman province)">Roman province of Judea</a>; and the subsequent <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Jerusalem_(70_CE)" title="Siege of Jerusalem (70 CE)">destruction</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Second_Temple" title="Second Temple">Second Temple</a> by the future <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Titus" class="mw-redirect" title="Emperor Titus">Emperor Titus</a>. </p><p>During the Hasmonean period, the Davidic line was largely excluded from the royal house in Judea, but some members had risen to prominence as religious and communal leaders. One of the most notable of those was <a href="/wiki/Hillel_the_Elder" title="Hillel the Elder">Hillel the Elder</a>, who moved to Judea from his birthplace in Babylon. His great-grandson <a href="/wiki/Simeon_ben_Gamliel" title="Simeon ben Gamliel">Simeon ben Gamliel</a> became one of the Jewish leaders during the <a href="/wiki/First_Jewish%E2%80%93Roman_War" title="First Jewish–Roman War">First Jewish–Roman War</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Middle_Ages">Middle Ages</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Davidic_line&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Middle Ages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Exilarchate" class="mw-redirect" title="Exilarchate">Exilarchate</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Halper_462_Genealogy_of_the_Exilarchs_to_David_and_Adam,_Cairo_Geniza.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Genealogy of the Exilarchs to David and Adam, Avraham ben Tamim, Cairo Geniza, 1100s (Katz Center/UPenn)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Halper_462_Genealogy_of_the_Exilarchs_to_David_and_Adam%2C_Cairo_Geniza.jpg/220px-Halper_462_Genealogy_of_the_Exilarchs_to_David_and_Adam%2C_Cairo_Geniza.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="198" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Halper_462_Genealogy_of_the_Exilarchs_to_David_and_Adam%2C_Cairo_Geniza.jpg/330px-Halper_462_Genealogy_of_the_Exilarchs_to_David_and_Adam%2C_Cairo_Geniza.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Halper_462_Genealogy_of_the_Exilarchs_to_David_and_Adam%2C_Cairo_Geniza.jpg/440px-Halper_462_Genealogy_of_the_Exilarchs_to_David_and_Adam%2C_Cairo_Geniza.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1800" data-file-height="1618" /></a><figcaption><i>Genealogy of the Exilarchs to David and Adam</i>, Avraham ben Tamim, Cairo Geniza, 1100s (<a href="/wiki/Katz_Center_for_Advanced_Judaic_Studies" title="Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies">Katz Center</a>/<a href="/wiki/University_of_Pennsylvania" title="University of Pennsylvania">UPenn</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>The Exilarchate in the <a href="/wiki/Sasanian_Empire" title="Sasanian Empire">Sasanian Empire</a> was briefly abolished as a result of a revolt by the <a href="/wiki/Mar-Zutra_II" title="Mar-Zutra II">Mar-Zutra II</a> in the late 5th century CE, with his son <a href="/wiki/Mar-Zutra_III" title="Mar-Zutra III">Mar-Zutra III</a> being denied the office and relocating to <a href="/wiki/Tiberias" title="Tiberias">Tiberias</a>, then within the <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine Empire</a>. Mar Ahunai lived in the period succeeding Mar Zutra II, but for almost fifty years after the failed revolt he did not dare to appear in public, and it is not known whether even then (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 550</span>) he really acted as Exilarch. The names of Kafnai and his son Haninai, who were Exilarchs in the second half of the 6th century, have been preserved. </p><p>The Exilarchate in Mesopotamia was officially restored after the <a href="/wiki/Muslim_conquest_of_Persia" title="Muslim conquest of Persia">Arab conquest</a> in the 7th century and continued to function during the early <a href="/wiki/Caliphate" title="Caliphate">Caliphates</a>. Exilarchs continued to be appointed until the 11th century, with some members of the Davidic line dispersing across the Islamic world. There are conflicting accounts of the fate of the Exilarch family in the 11th century; according to one version <a href="/wiki/Hezekiah_ben_David" title="Hezekiah ben David">Hezekiah ben David</a>, who was the last Exilarch and also the last <a href="/wiki/Gaon_(Hebrew)" title="Gaon (Hebrew)">Gaon</a>, was imprisoned and tortured to death. Two of his sons fled to Al-Andalus, where they found refuge with Joseph, the son and successor of <a href="/wiki/Samuel_ibn_Naghrillah" title="Samuel ibn Naghrillah">Samuel ibn Naghrillah</a>. However, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Jewish_Quarterly_Review" title="The Jewish Quarterly Review">The Jewish Quarterly Review</a></i> mentions that Hezekiah was liberated from prison, and became head of the academy, and is mentioned as such by a contemporary in 1046.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An unsuccessful attempt of David ben Daniel of the Davidic line to establish an Exilarchate in the <a href="/wiki/Fatimid_Caliphate" title="Fatimid Caliphate">Fatimid Caliphate</a> failed and ended with his downfall in 1094. </p><p>In the 11th–15th century, families that descended from the Exilarchs that lived in the South of France (<a href="/wiki/Narbonne" title="Narbonne">Narbonne</a> and <a href="/wiki/Provence" title="Provence">Provence</a>) and in northern Iberian peninsula (<a href="/wiki/Barcelona" title="Barcelona">Barcelona</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aragon" title="Aragon">Aragon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Castile_and_Le%C3%B3n" title="Castile and León">Castile</a>) received the title "<a href="/wiki/Nasi_(Hebrew_title)" title="Nasi (Hebrew title)">Nasi</a>" in the communities and were called "free men". They had a special economic and social status in the Jewish community, and they were close to their respective governments, some serving as advisers and tax collectors/finance ministers. </p><p>These families had special rights in Narbonne, Barcelona, and Castile. They possessed real estate and received the title "<a href="/wiki/Don_(honorific)" title="Don (honorific)">Don</a>" and  <i>de la Kblriih</i> (<i>De la Cavalleria</i>). Among the families of the "Sons of the Free" are the families of <a href="/wiki/Abravanel" title="Abravanel">Abravanel</a> and <a href="/wiki/Benveniste" title="Benveniste">Benveniste</a>. </p><p>In his book, <i><a href="/wiki/A_Jewish_Princedom_in_Feudal_France" title="A Jewish Princedom in Feudal France">A Jewish Princedom in Feudal France</a></i>, Arthur J. Zuckerman proposes a theory that from 768 to 900 CE a Jewish Princedom ruled by members of the Exilarchs existed in feudal France. However, this theory has been widely contested.<sup id="cite_ref-:12_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:12-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Descendants of the house of exilarchs were living in various places long after the office became extinct. The grandson of Hezekiah ben David through his eldest son David ben Chyzkia, <a href="/wiki/Hiyya_al-Daudi" title="Hiyya al-Daudi">Hiyya al-Daudi</a>, died in 1154 in <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Castile" title="Kingdom of Castile">Castile</a> according to <a href="/wiki/Abraham_ibn_Daud" title="Abraham ibn Daud">Abraham ibn Daud</a> and is the ancestor of the <a href="/wiki/Yaish_Ibn_Yahya" title="Yaish Ibn Yahya">ibn Yahya</a> family. Several families, as late as the 14th century, traced their descent back to Josiah, the brother of <a href="/wiki/David_ben_Zakkai" title="David ben Zakkai">David ben Zakkai</a> who had been banished to Chorasan (see the genealogies in [Lazarus 1890] pp. 180 et seq.). The descendants of the Karaite Exilarchs have been referred to above. </p><p>A number of Jewish families in the <a href="/wiki/Iberian_Peninsula" title="Iberian Peninsula">Iberian peninsula</a> and within <a href="/wiki/Mesopotamia" title="Mesopotamia">Mesopotamia</a> continued to preserve the tradition of descent from Exilarchs in the <a href="/wiki/Late_Middle_Ages" title="Late Middle Ages">Late Middle Ages</a>, including the families of <a href="/wiki/Abravanel" title="Abravanel">Abravanel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yaish_Ibn_Yahya" title="Yaish Ibn Yahya">ibn Yahya</a> and Ben-David. The patriarch of the Coronel Family, <a href="/wiki/Abraham_Senior" title="Abraham Senior">Abraham Senior</a>, is referred to in a letter of 1487 from the Jews of Castile to the Jews of Rome and Lombardy as 'the Exilarch who is over us'.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>. Several Ashkenazi scholars also claimed descent from King David. On his father's side, <a href="/wiki/Rashi" title="Rashi">Rashi</a> has been claimed to be a 33rd-generation descendant of <a href="/wiki/Johanan_HaSandlar" title="Johanan HaSandlar">Johanan HaSandlar</a>, who was a fourth-generation descendant of <a href="/wiki/Gamaliel" title="Gamaliel">Gamaliel</a>, who was reputedly descended from the Davidic line.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Similarly <a href="/wiki/Maimonides" title="Maimonides">Maimonides</a> claimed 37 generations between him and <a href="/wiki/Simeon_ben_Judah_ha-Nasi" title="Simeon ben Judah ha-Nasi">Simeon ben Judah ha-Nasi</a>, who was also a fourth-generation descendant of Gamaliel.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Meir Perels traced the ancestry of <a href="/wiki/Judah_Loew_ben_Bezalel" title="Judah Loew ben Bezalel">Judah Loew ben Bezalel</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Hai_Gaon" class="mw-redirect" title="Hai Gaon">Hai Gaon</a> through Judah Loew's alleged great-great-grandfather <a href="/wiki/Judah_Leib_the_Elder" title="Judah Leib the Elder">Judah Leib the Elder</a> and therefore also from the Davidic dynasty; however, this claim is widely disputed, by many scholars such as Otto Muneles.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hai Gaon was the son of <a href="/wiki/Sherira_Gaon" class="mw-redirect" title="Sherira Gaon">Sherira Gaon</a>, who claimed descent from <a href="/wiki/Rabbah_b._Abuha" class="mw-redirect" title="Rabbah b. Abuha">Rabbah b. Abuha</a>, who belonged to the family of the exilarch, thereby claiming descent from the Davidic line. Sherira's son-in-law was <a href="/wiki/Elijah_ben_Menahem_HaZaken" title="Elijah ben Menahem HaZaken">Elijah ben Menahem HaZaken</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The patriarch of the <a href="/wiki/Meisel_family" title="Meisel family">Meisels family</a>, Yitskhak Eizik Meisels, was an alleged 10th generation descendant of the Exilarch, <a href="/wiki/Mar_Ukba" class="mw-redirect" title="Mar Ukba">Mar Ukba</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/w/index.php?title=Berduga_family&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Berduga family (page does not exist)">Berduga family</a> of <a href="/wiki/Meknes" title="Meknes">Meknes</a> claim paternal descent from the Exilarch, <a href="/wiki/Bostanai" title="Bostanai">Bostanai</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Jewish banking family <a href="/wiki/Louis_Cahen_d%27Anvers" title="Louis Cahen d'Anvers">Louis Cahen d'Anvers</a> claimed descent from the Davidic Line<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rabbi <a href="/wiki/Yosef_Dayan" title="Yosef Dayan">Yosef Dayan</a>, who is a modern-day claimant to the Davidic throne in Israel and the founder of the Monarchist party <a href="/w/index.php?title=Malchut_Israel&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Malchut Israel (page does not exist)">Malchut Israel</a>, descends from the <a href="/wiki/Dayan_(surname)" title="Dayan (surname)">Dayan family</a> of <a href="/wiki/Aleppo" title="Aleppo">Aleppo</a>, who paternally descend from Hasan ben Zakkai, the younger brother of the Exilarch <a href="/wiki/David_ben_Zakkai" title="David ben Zakkai">David I</a> (d. 940). One of Hasan's descendants Solomon ben Azariah ha-Nasi settled in Aleppo were the family became Dayan's (judges) of the city and thus adopted the surname Dayan.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_Judaism">In Judaism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Davidic_line&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: In Judaism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Eschatology">Eschatology</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Davidic_line&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Eschatology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Jewish_eschatology" title="Jewish eschatology">Jewish eschatology</a>, the term <i><span title="Hebrew-language text"><i lang="he-Latn">mashiach</i></span></i>, or "<a href="/wiki/Messiah_in_Judaism" title="Messiah in Judaism">Messiah</a>", came to refer to a future Jewish <a href="/wiki/Monarch" title="Monarch">king</a> from the Davidic line, who is expected to be anointed with <a href="/wiki/Holy_anointing_oil" title="Holy anointing oil">holy anointing oil</a> and rule the Jewish people during the <a href="/wiki/Messianic_Age" title="Messianic Age">Messianic Age</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-schochet_moshiah_ben_yossef_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-schochet_moshiah_ben_yossef-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-JVL_messiah_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JVL_messiah-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-JVL_The_Messiah_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JVL_The_Messiah-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Messiah is often referred to as "King Messiah", or, in Hebrew, <span title="Hebrew-language text"><span lang="he" dir="rtl">מלך משיח</span></span> (<i><span title="Hebrew-language text"><i lang="he-Latn">melekh mashiach</i></span></i>), and, in Aramaic, <i>malka meshiḥa</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-JVL_Flusser_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JVL_Flusser-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Orthodox_Judaism" title="Orthodox Judaism">Orthodox</a> views have generally held that the Messiah will be a <a href="/wiki/Patrilineality" title="Patrilineality">patrilineal</a> descendant of <a href="/wiki/David" title="David">King David</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and will gather the Jews back into the <a href="/wiki/Land_of_Israel" title="Land of Israel">Land of Israel</a>, usher in an era of peace, build the <a href="/wiki/Third_Temple" title="Third Temple">Third Temple</a>, father a male heir, re-institute the <a href="/wiki/Sanhedrin" title="Sanhedrin">Sanhedrin</a>, and so on. Jewish tradition alludes to two redeemers, both of whom are called <i><span title="Hebrew-language text"><i lang="he-Latn">mashiach</i></span></i> and are involved in ushering in the <a href="/wiki/Messianic_Age#Judaism" title="Messianic Age">Messianic age</a>: <i><span title="Hebrew-language text"><i lang="he-Latn">Mashiach ben David</i></span></i>; and <i><a href="/wiki/Mashiach_ben_Joseph" class="mw-redirect" title="Mashiach ben Joseph">Mashiach ben Yosef</a></i>. In general, the term <i>Messiah</i> unqualified refers to <i>Mashiach ben David</i> (Messiah, son of David).<sup id="cite_ref-schochet_moshiah_ben_yossef_48-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-schochet_moshiah_ben_yossef-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-JVL_messiah_49-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JVL_messiah-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Modern_legacy">Modern legacy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Davidic_line&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Modern legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2012, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Jerusalem_Post" title="The Jerusalem Post">The Jerusalem Post</a></i> reported that philanthropist Susan Roth created Davidic Dynasty as subsidiary of her Eshet Chayil Foundation, dedicated to finding, databasing, and connecting Davidic descendants and running the King David Legacy Center in Jerusalem.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2020, Roth chose Brando Crawford, a descendant from both grandfathers, to represent the organization internationally.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The King David Legacy Center has seen support from <a href="/wiki/Haredi_Judaism" title="Haredi Judaism">Haredi</a> Jews in Jerusalem.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_other_Abrahamic_religions">In other Abrahamic religions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Davidic_line&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: In other Abrahamic religions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Christianity">Christianity</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Davidic_line&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Christianity"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christian</a> interpretation the "<a href="/wiki/Covenant_(biblical)#Davidic_covenant" title="Covenant (biblical)">Davidic covenant</a>" of a Davidic line in <a href="/wiki/2_Samuel" class="mw-redirect" title="2 Samuel">2 Samuel</a> 7 is understood in various ways, traditionally referring to the <a href="/wiki/Genealogy_of_Jesus" title="Genealogy of Jesus">genealogies of Jesus</a> in the <a href="/wiki/New_Testament" title="New Testament">New Testament</a>. One Christian interpretation of the Davidic line counts the line as continuing to <a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a> son of <a href="/wiki/Saint_Joseph" title="Saint Joseph">Joseph</a>, according to the genealogies which are written in <a href="/wiki/Matthew_1" title="Matthew 1">Matthew 1</a>:1-16 descendants of Solomon and <a href="/wiki/Luke_3" title="Luke 3">Luke 3</a>:23-38 descendants of Nathan son of David through the line of Mary. </p><p>Because Jews have historically believed that the Messiah will be a male-line descendant of David, the lineage of Jesus is sometimes cited as a reason why Jews do not believe that he was the Messiah. As the proposed son of God, he could not have been a male descendant of David because according to the genealogy of his earthly parents, Mary and Joseph, he did not have the proper lineage, because he would not have been a male descendant of Mary, and Joseph, who was a descendant of <a href="/wiki/Jeconiah" title="Jeconiah">Jeconiah</a>, because Jeconiah's descendants are explicitly barred from ever ruling Israel by God.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Another Christian interpretation emphasizes the minor, non-royal, line of David through <a href="/wiki/Solomon" title="Solomon">Solomon</a>'s brother <a href="/wiki/Nathan_(son_of_David)" title="Nathan (son of David)">Nathan</a> as it is recorded in the <a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_Luke" title="Gospel of Luke">Gospel of Luke</a> <a href="/wiki/Luke_3" title="Luke 3">chapter 3</a> (entirely undocumented in the Hebrew Bible), which is often understood to be the family tree of Mary's father. A widely spread traditional Christian interpretation relates the non-continuation of the main Davidic line from Solomon to the godlessness of the line of <a href="/wiki/Jehoiachin" class="mw-redirect" title="Jehoiachin">Jehoiachin</a> which started in the early 500s BC, when <a href="/wiki/Jeremiah" title="Jeremiah">Jeremiah</a> cursed the main branch of the Solomonic line, by saying that no descendant of "[Je]Coniah" would ever reign on the throne of Israel again (<a href="/wiki/Jeremiah_22:30" class="mw-redirect" title="Jeremiah 22:30">Jeremiah 22:30</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some Christian commentators also believe that this same "curse" is the reason why <a href="/wiki/Zerubbabel" title="Zerubbabel">Zerubbabel</a>, the rightful Solomonic king during the time of <a href="/wiki/Nehemiah" title="Nehemiah">Nehemiah</a>, was not given a kingship under the <a href="/wiki/Persian_empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Persian empire">Persian empire</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Tree_of_Jesse" title="Tree of Jesse">Tree of Jesse</a> (a reference to David's father) is a traditional Christian artistic representation of Jesus' genealogical connection to David. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Islam">Islam</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Davidic_line&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Islam"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Quran" title="Quran">Quran</a> mentions the House of David once: "Work, O family of David, in gratitude. And few of My servants are grateful."<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and mentions David himself sixteen times. </p><p>According to some Islamic sources, some of the <a href="/wiki/Jewish_tribes_of_Arabia" title="Jewish tribes of Arabia">Jewish settlers in Arabia</a> were of the Davidic line, Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi recorded: "A Jewish man from the Davidic line entered <a href="/wiki/Medina" title="Medina">Medina</a> and found the people in deep sorrow. He enquired the people, 'What is wrong?' Some of the people replied: <a href="/wiki/Muhammad" title="Muhammad">Prophet Muhammad</a> passed away".<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Davidic_line&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_of_ancient_Israel_and_Judah" title="History of ancient Israel and Judah">History of ancient Israel and Judah</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kings_of_Israel_and_Judah" title="Kings of Israel and Judah">Kings of Israel and Judah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kings_of_Judah" title="Kings of Judah">Kings of Judah</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/LMLK_seal" title="LMLK seal">LMLK seal</a></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abravanel" title="Abravanel">Abravanel family</a>, a Sephardic Jewish family claiming descent from David</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bagrationi_dynasty" title="Bagrationi dynasty">Bagrationi dynasty</a>, a Georgian dynasty claiming descent from David <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Claim_of_the_biblical_descent_of_the_Bagrationi_dynasty" title="Claim of the biblical descent of the Bagrationi dynasty">Claim of the biblical descent of the Bagrationi dynasty</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Solomonic_dynasty" title="Solomonic dynasty">Solomonic dynasty</a>, an Ethiopian dynasty claiming descent from David's son Solomon <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kebra_Nagast" title="Kebra Nagast">Kebra Nagast</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tree_of_Jesse" title="Tree of Jesse">Tree of Jesse</a>, a Christian artistic depiction of Jesus' family tree beginning with David's father Jesse</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2 December</span> 2012</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Tutorial&rft.atitle=Moshiach+ben+Yossef&rft.aulast=Schochet&rft.aufirst=Jacob+Immanuel&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.moshiach.com%2Fdiscover%2Ftutorials%2Fmoshiach_ben_yossef.php&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADavidic+line" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-JVL_messiah-49"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-JVL_messiah_49-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-JVL_messiah_49-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBlidstein" class="citation web cs1">Blidstein, Prof. Dr. Gerald J. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0014_0_13744.html">"Messiah in Rabbinic Thought"</a>. <i>MESSIAH</i>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2 December</span> 2012</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=MESSIAH&rft.atitle=Messiah+in+Rabbinic+Thought&rft.aulast=Blidstein&rft.aufirst=Prof.+Dr.+Gerald+J.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jewishvirtuallibrary.org%2Fjsource%2Fjudaica%2Fejud_0002_0014_0_13744.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADavidic+line" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-JVL_The_Messiah-50"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-JVL_The_Messiah_50-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTelushkin1991" class="citation web cs1">Telushkin, Joseph (1991). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/messiah.html">"The Messiah"</a>. William Morrow and Co<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2 December</span> 2012</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=The+Messiah&rft.pub=William+Morrow+and+Co&rft.date=1991&rft.aulast=Telushkin&rft.aufirst=Joseph&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jewishvirtuallibrary.org%2Fjsource%2FJudaism%2Fmessiah.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADavidic+line" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-JVL_Flusser-51"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-JVL_Flusser_51-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFlusser" class="citation web cs1">Flusser, David. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0014_0_13744.html">"Second Temple Period"</a>. <i>Messiah</i>. Encyclopaedia Judaica 2008 The Gale Group<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2 December</span> 2012</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Messiah&rft.atitle=Second+Temple+Period&rft.aulast=Flusser&rft.aufirst=David&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jewishvirtuallibrary.org%2Fjsource%2Fjudaica%2Fejud_0002_0014_0_13744.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADavidic+line" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-52"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-52">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See <a href="/wiki/Aryeh_Kaplan" title="Aryeh Kaplan">Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan</a>: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080529164304/http://www.jewsforjudaism.org/web/pdf/RealMessiahBookPages_v4ab.pdf">"The Real Messiah A Jewish Response to Missionaries"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jewsforjudaism.org/web/pdf/RealMessiahBookPages_v4ab.pdf">the original</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> on 29 May 2008<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">17 April</span> 2012</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=The+Real+Messiah+A+Jewish+Response+to+Missionaries&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jewsforjudaism.org%2Fweb%2Fpdf%2FRealMessiahBookPages_v4ab.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADavidic+line" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-53"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-53">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jpost.com/jewish-world/jewish-features/are-you-a-descendant-of-the-house-of-david">"Are you a descendant of the House of David?"</a>. <i>The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com</i>. 10 January 2012<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">15 October</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=The+Jerusalem+Post+%7C+JPost.com&rft.atitle=Are+you+a+descendant+of+the+House+of+David%3F&rft.date=2012-01-10&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jpost.com%2Fjewish-world%2Fjewish-features%2Fare-you-a-descendant-of-the-house-of-david&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADavidic+line" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-54"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-54">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.davidicdynasty.org/leadership/">"Leadership"</a>. <i>Davidic Dynasty is dedicated to uniting the Jewish descendants of King David</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">15 October</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Davidic+Dynasty+is+dedicated+to+uniting+the+Jewish+descendants+of+King+David&rft.atitle=Leadership&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.davidicdynasty.org%2Fleadership%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADavidic+line" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-55"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-55">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTwersky2008" class="citation web cs1">Twersky, David (10 November 2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://forward.com/news/8389/we-are-family-king-david-s-descendants-gather-f/">"We Are Family: King David's Descendants Gather for 'Reunion'<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span>"</a>. <i>The Forward</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">15 October</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=The+Forward&rft.atitle=We+Are+Family%3A+King+David%27s+Descendants+Gather+for+%27Reunion%27&rft.date=2008-11-10&rft.aulast=Twersky&rft.aufirst=David&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fforward.com%2Fnews%2F8389%2Fwe-are-family-king-david-s-descendants-gather-f%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADavidic+line" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-56"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-56">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jpost.com/features/in-thespotlight/grapevine-yes-prime-minister">"Grapevine: Yes, Prime Minister…"</a>. <i>The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com</i>. 10 January 2012<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">15 October</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=The+Jerusalem+Post+%7C+JPost.com&rft.atitle=Grapevine%3A+Yes%2C+Prime+Minister%E2%80%A6&rft.date=2012-01-10&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jpost.com%2Ffeatures%2Fin-thespotlight%2Fgrapevine-yes-prime-minister&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADavidic+line" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-57"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-57">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">This is what the LORD says: 'Record this man as if he is childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime, for none of his offspring will prosper, none of them will sit on the throne of David or rule in Judah anymore.— Jeremiah 22:30, NIV</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-58"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-58">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">H. Wayne House <i>Israel: Land and the People</i> 1998 114 "And yet, Judah has also been without a king of the Solomonic line since the Babylonian exile. Because of Jeremiah's curse on Jehoiachin (Coniah) in the early 500s BC (Jer. 22:30), the high priests of Israel, while serving as the ..."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-59"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-59">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Warren W. Wiersbe -The Wiersbe Bible Commentary: The Complete Old Testament - 2007 p. 1497 "Zerubbabel was the grandson of King Jehoiachin (Jeconiah, Matt. 1:12; Coniah, Jer. 22:24, 28), and therefore of the royal line of David. But instead of wearing a crown and sitting on a throne, Zerubbabel was the humble governor of a ..."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-60"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-60">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Quran 34:13</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-61"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-61">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi, Bihār al-Anwār, Dar Al-Rida Publication, Beirut, (1983), volume 30 page 99</span> </li> </ol></div> <dl><dt>Sources</dt></dl> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPioske2015" class="citation book cs1">Pioske, Daniel (2015). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=IrKgBgAAQBAJ"><i>David's Jerusalem: Between Memory and History</i></a>. Routledge Studies in Religion. Vol. 45. Routledge. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1317548911" title="Special:BookSources/978-1317548911"><bdi>978-1317548911</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=David%27s+Jerusalem%3A+Between+Memory+and+History&rft.series=Routledge+Studies+in+Religion&rft.pub=Routledge&rft.date=2015&rft.isbn=978-1317548911&rft.aulast=Pioske&rft.aufirst=Daniel&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DIrKgBgAAQBAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADavidic+line" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><i>The Holy Bible: 1611 Edition</i> (Thos. Nelson, 1993)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Davidic_line&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Jehoram's reign in Israel saw three kings of Judah — <a href="/wiki/Jehoshaphat" title="Jehoshaphat">Jehoshaphat</a>, his son <a href="/wiki/Jehoram_of_Judah" title="Jehoram of Judah">Jehoram of Judah</a>, and <i>his</i> son, Ahaziah</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">'Unambiguous' as Ahaziah's name on the Tel Dan Stele is incomplete, and there is no explicit confirmation that the apical ancestor David of <i>Bayt-David</i> was a king</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The name in the annals is <i>Azariah</i>, not "Uzziah". While Uzziah is called "Azariah" several times in the Bible, scholars consider this to be the result of a <i>later</i> scribal error. Thus it is unlikely that Tiglath-Pileser's scribes would have used this name to refer to Uzziah.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Davidic_line&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.poeticmind.co.uk/heritage/king-david-dynasty-the-charlap-family-ascension">"King David Dynasty"</a></li> <li>Jewish Encyclopedia.com: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=548&letter=E">"Exilarchs"</a></li> <li>A genealogy of the Exilarchs: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.loebtree.com/kings.html">"From Judah to Bustanai"</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" 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Israel">Shallum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Menahem" title="Menahem">Menahem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pekahiah" title="Pekahiah">Pekahiah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pekah" title="Pekah">Pekah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hoshea" title="Hoshea">Hoshea</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Judah" title="Kingdom of Judah">Judah<br />(southern kingdom)</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rehoboam" title="Rehoboam">Rehoboam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abijah_of_Judah" title="Abijah of Judah">Abijam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asa_of_Judah" title="Asa of Judah">Asa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jehoshaphat" title="Jehoshaphat">Jehoshaphat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jehoram_of_Judah" title="Jehoram of Judah">Jehoram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ahaziah_of_Judah" title="Ahaziah of Judah">Ahaziah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Athaliah" title="Athaliah">Athaliah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jehoash_of_Judah" title="Jehoash of Judah">Jehoash</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amaziah_of_Judah" title="Amaziah of Judah">Amaziah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uzziah" title="Uzziah">Uzziah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jotham" title="Jotham">Jotham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ahaz" title="Ahaz">Ahaz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hezekiah" title="Hezekiah">Hezekiah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manasseh_of_Judah" title="Manasseh of Judah">Manasseh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amon_of_Judah" title="Amon of Judah">Amon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Josiah" title="Josiah">Josiah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jehoahaz_of_Judah" title="Jehoahaz of Judah">Jehoahaz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jehoiakim" title="Jehoiakim">Jehoiakim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeconiah" title="Jeconiah">Jeconiah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zedekiah" title="Zedekiah">Zedekiah</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Hasmonean_dynasty" title="Hasmonean dynasty">Judea<br />(Hasmonean dynasty)</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Simon_Thassi" title="Simon Thassi">Simon Thassi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Hyrcanus" title="John Hyrcanus">John Hyrcanus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aristobulus_I" title="Aristobulus I">Aristobulus I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Jannaeus" title="Alexander Jannaeus">Alexander Jannaeus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salome_Alexandra" title="Salome Alexandra">Salome Alexandra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hyrcanus_II" title="Hyrcanus II">Hyrcanus II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aristobulus_II" title="Aristobulus II">Aristobulus II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antigonus_II_Mattathias" title="Antigonus II Mattathias">Antigonus II Mattathias</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" 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title="David">David</a> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Davidic line</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Menelik_I" title="Menelik I">Menelik I</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Solomonic_dynasty" title="Solomonic dynasty">Solomonic dynasty</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naamah_(wife_of_Solomon)" title="Naamah (wife of Solomon)">Naamah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pharaoh%27s_daughter_(wife_of_Solomon)" title="Pharaoh's daughter (wife of Solomon)">Pharaoh's daughter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queen_of_Sheba" title="Queen of Sheba">Queen of Sheba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rehoboam" title="Rehoboam">Rehoboam</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Occurrences</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Judgement_of_Solomon" title="Judgement of Solomon">Judgement of Solomon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Solomon_and_Marcolf" 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