-Seed
Son:.Emmanuel
was the "Seed" Son. What's the seed? Luke
8:11.
Emmanuel was born of the
incorruptible seed of the Father: 1Peter
1:23.
Paul
skips over Moses and the Mosaic
Law by 2000 years, all the way to Emmanuel. The promises were those
involving faith, nothing to do with the law.
The Son is the end product of the Father's intent and the energy called
spirit; in this case, the Holy Spirit, as the energy to form the will of
the Infinite One comes from Him, the Father, who is holy.
The
promises were to Abraham
and his seed. And that seed.(not
seeds or it would have been all descendants all the way down to Emmanuel).was
Emmanuel. There is only one Seed Son. That was Emmanuel..2Corinthians
1:20 "For all the promises
of God in him are yea and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.".And
just what were the promises for? 2Peter
1:4.
Follow through:.Romans
1:3;
Galatians 3:16,29; Matthew
1:1; Psalms 22:30; 89:36;
Galatians
3:8,14,29.
The 42nd generation spoken
of in Matthew is the 'seed Son'.(Romans
4:13,16).which
is us with Christ in us, meaning His nature of love in us:.Colossians
1:27;
1Corinthians 12:12;
Daniel
7:27; Psalms 22:30. In this
seed.(Christ
with we in Him).all
will be blessed:.Galatians
3:6-9; Isaiah 61:9; Matthew
13:38.
The
42 generations...
-Sennacherib:
Sennacherib reigned B.C.E.
703-681 as king of Assyria,
son and successor of his father Sargon II.
Sennacherib retained the lands conquered
by his father and like Sargon, he also moved his capital from Dur Sharrukin
to Nineveh, where he built his palace.
In B.C.E. 689, when Babylonia
was again seething with unrest, Sennacherib razed
the entire city and flooded the site.
Sennacherib's son Esarhaddon.(reigned
B.C.E. 681-669:.2Kings
19:37).was
more favorably disposed
toward Babylonia and helped to rebuild it. His major military success consisted
of crossing the frontier of Egypt and capturing Memphis, its capital. Esarhaddon
was grandson of Sargon II.
On the death of Sargon
II, king of Assyria and the accession
of Sennacherib to the throne of Assyria, Hezekiah
king of Judah shook
off off the yoke
of the Assyrians by refusing to pay the tribute
by which Ahaz
his father had suffered under Tiglath-pileser.
Hezekiah had."rebelled
against the king of Assyria and served him not".(2Kings
18:1-7), instead selecting to enter
into a league
with Egypt.
This led to the invasion
of Judah by Sennacherib.(2Kings
18:13).who
marched an army against Hezekiah's domain,
taking forty cities and besieged Jerusalem with mounds.
Sennacherib ook all of Hezekiah's kingdom under his control:.Isaiah
36:1,2.
One series of ancient tablets
recounts the warlike exploits
of Sennacherib, who called himself 'the subduer
of kings from the upper sea of the setting Sun to the lower sea of the
rising Sun' that is, from the Mediterranean.(map).to
the Persian Gulf.(map).
Hezekiah, seeing he had nothing
left but Jerusalem, which he perhaps found it difficult to preserve, sent
ambassadors to Sennacherib to make submission. Sennacherib accepted his
tribute, but refused to depart from Jerusalem and sent Rabshakeh, who was
one of his trusted men, with an insolent
message to Jerusalem to reach Hezekiah.
Hezekiah believed in God
and prayed about this dilemma.
God answered. A destroying angel was sent against the Assyrian army and
slew in one night 185,000 men. Sennacherib, surprised at having lost so
many men in his army returned with all speed to
Nineveh
and turned those of his army that remained with him, against the
nations south of Assyria and afterwards towards the north. But his career
was not long. Within two or three years from his return from Jerusalem,
while he was paying adorations to his God
Nisroch
in the temple, his two sons Adrammelech and Sharezer slew him and fled
into Armenia. Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead; the story:.2Kings
18:13-19:37.
Confirmation
of the above Bible history has been found in the long buried ruins
of ancient Nineveh. The mound called Kouyunijik, opposite Mosul, has been
to a good degree explored and its ruins prove to be those of a palace erected
by this powerful monarch.
The huge stone tablets which formed the walls of its various apartments
are covered with bas-reliefs
and inscriptions
and though large
portions of these have perished by violence and time, the fragments that
remain are full of interest.
The inscription then proceeds
to say "Hezekiah king of Judah, who had not submitted to my authority,
forty-six of his principal cities and fortresses and villages dependant
upon them, of which I took no account, I captured and carried away their
spoil. The fortified towns and the rest of his towns which I spoiled, I
severed from his country and gave to the kings of Askelon, Ekron and Gaza,
so as to make his country small. In addition to the former tribute imposed
upon their countries, I added a tribute the nature of which I fixed." 2Kings
18:13-19:37; Isaiah 36:1-38.
He does not profess to have
taken Jerusalem itself, but to have carried away Hezekiah's family, servants
and treasures, with a tribute
of thirty talents of gold and eight hundred talents of silver. The amount
of gold is the same mentioned in the Bible narrative.
The three hundred talents of silver mentioned in Scripture
may have been all that was given in money and the five hundred additional
claimed in the Ninevite record may
include the temple and palace treasures, given by Hezekiah as the price
of peace.
Sennacherib's own account
of this invasion, as given in the Assyrian annals,
is in these words: "Because Hezekiah, king of Judah, would not submit to
my yoke, I came up against him, and by force of arms and by the might of
my power I took forty-six of his strong fenced cities and of the smaller
towns which were scattered about, I took and plundered a countless number.
From these places I took and carried off 200,156 persons, old and young,
male and female, together with horses and mules, asses and camels, oxen
and sheep, a countless multitude and Hezekiah himself I shut up in Jerusalem,
his capital city, like a bird in a cage, building towers round the city
to hem him in and raising banks of Earth against the gates, so as to prevent
escape, then upon Hezekiah there fell the fear of the power of my arms
and he sent out to me the chiefs and the elders of Jerusalem with 30 talents
of gold and 800 talents of silver and divers treasures, a rich and immense
booty all these things were brought to me at Nineveh, the seat of my government."
In another apartment of the
same palace was found a series of well preserved bas-reliefs, representing
the siege and capture by the Assyrians of a large and strong city. It was
doubly fortified and the assault and the defense were both fierce. Part
of the city is represented as already taken, while elsewhere the battle
rages still in all its fury. Meanwhile captives are seen flayed,
impaled
and put to the sword and from one of the gates of the city a long procession
of prisoners is brought before the king, who is gorgeously arrayed and
seated on his throne upon a mound or low hill. They are presented by the
general in command, very possibly Rabshakeh, with other chief officers.
Two eunuchs
stand behind the king, holding fans and napkins. Above his head is an inscription,
which is thus translated: "Sennacherib the mighty king, king of the country
of Assyria, sitting on the throne of judging at the gate of the city Lachisa;
I give permission for its slaughter." The captives are stripped of their
armor, ornaments and much of their clothing and are evidently Jews.
Little did Sennacherib then
anticipate the utter of his ruin of his own proud metropolis and still
less that the ruins of his palace should preserve to this remote age the
tablets containing his own history and the image of his God Nisroch so
incapable of defending him, to bear witness for the God whom he blasphemed
and defied.
In the third year of his
reign, Sennacherib came in conflict with an Egyptian army, sent in aid
of King Hezekiah.
This host he defeated and drove back:.2Kings
19:9; Isaiah 37:1-38.
In B.C.E. 681 Sennacherib
was murdered by his two sons:.2Kings
19:37. Esarhaddon the younger brother, who was at the time conducting
a campaign against Ararat, was declared king in his stead.
-Shalmaneser:
Shalmaneser was the name of many kings of Assyria:.2Kings
17:3; 18:9-12.
Shalmaneser I,
reigned
B.C.E. 1274-1244.
Along with Tukulti-Ninurta I they expanded Assyria's
boundaries in the days of the Hittites
and
Babylonians.
'Shalmaneser
II, also known as.Ashurnasirpal-II,
B.C.E.
884 to 859, king of Assyria,
son of Tukulti-Ninurta-II. Shalmaneser-II was between kings Tiglath-pileser-ii
and Sennacherib.
From B.C.E. 9th to the 7th
century, Babylonia's
northern neighbor, Assyria,
amassed.significant
territory under the rule of Ashirnasirpur II.(another
spelling of Ashurnasirpal II).and
his successors. Assyria's attempt to conquer Babylonia in B.C.E. 7th century
failed and the region was absorbed into Babylonia.
He restored the Assyrian
city of Calah, which he made his capital, instead of Ashur,
the old capital. Numerous inscribed monuments of Ashurnasirpal have been
found in the ruins of Calah.
Shalmaneser III,
reigned B.C.E. 859-824, was the son of Ashurnasirpal
II. He loaded taxes upon the lands of Aram and Israel he conquered
west of the Euphrates.
His monuments in the British Museum include the slabs of bronze known as
Gates of Balawat and the Black Obelisk on which Jehu,
king of Israel, is depicted.at
Shalmaneser's feet.
Shalmaneser IV,
no information on him.
Shalmaneser V,
son and successor of Tiglath-Pileser-III,
reigned
B.C.E. 727-722, December
to December. This was the Shalmaneser of the Bible:.2Kings
17:3; 18:9-12. He was king
of Assyria between Tiglath-pileser-III and Sennacherib.
Comprised with.Amtract
Dictionary:.Scripture
reports that he came into Palestine,
subdued Samaria
and obliged Hoshea
to pay him an annual tribute
to the treasury at Nineveh.(2Kings
17:4-6), but in the third year,
being weary of
this exaction,
Hoshea combined
secretly with So,
King of Egypt to remove the subjection.
No help, however, came from Egypt and Hoshea had to face the chastising
forces of his suzerain
with his own unaided resources, the result being that he was taken prisoner
outside Samaria and most likely carried away to Nineveh. Shalmaneser brought
an army against him, ravaged Samaria, besieged
Hoshea in his capital
and notwithstanding
his long resistance of three years.(2Kings
17:1-41; 18:9-12),
he took the city and dismantled it, put Hoshea into bonds and carried away
most of the people beyond the Euphrates.
He thus ruined the kingdom of Samaria, which had subsisted two hundred
and fifty-four years, from B.C.E. 975 to 721. Hezekiah
king of Judah successfully resisted him. In Josephus
it's said Shalmaneser ravaged.Moaband
conquered Phoenicia, with the
exception of insular.Tyre,
which he besieged.in
vain for five years.
Shalmaneser-v brought an
army against Hoshea,
ravaged.Samaria,
besieged
Hoshea in his capital and notwithstanding
his long resistance of three years, he took the city and dismantled it,
put Hoshea into bonds and carried away most of the people beyond the Euphrates:.2Kings
17:1-6; 18:9-12. He thus
ruined the kingdom of Samaria, which had subsisted
two hundred and fifty-four years, from B.C.E. 975 to 721.
The Biblical narrative
goes on to say that Shalmaneser, the king of Assyria came up throughout
all the land and went up to Samaria and besieged it 3 years. There is reason
to believe that, as the siege of Samaria was proceeding, Shalmaneser retired
to Nineveh and died, for when the city was taken in B.C.E. 722, it is Sargon
who claims in his copious
annals to have captured it and carried its inhabitants into captivity.
The bas-relief
on a Assyrian obelisk
of black marble, six and a half feet high and covered on all sides with
inscriptions,
discovered in the ruins of the northwest palace at Nimroud, is believed
from various evidences to represent Shalmaneser-v receiving tribute from
those whom he subdued.
Shishak:
also called Sheshonk I, a
Pharaoh
of Egypt invaded and plundered the kingdom of Rehoboam
and despoiled
the temple. The kingdom was then divided.(map).
The rebel leader became king, as Jeroboam
I, over the northern parts of the old kingdom known afterward as the
Kingdom of Israel and its inhabitants included 10 of the original 12 tribes,
all except Judah and Benjamin who comprised the southern kingdom. Rehoboam
remained king over the southern parts of the kingdom, known afterward as
the Kingdom of Judah; about 300 square miles.(about
775 sq km).in
area.
-Solomon:
Although Solomon had many wives.(1Kings
11:2-4), he only had one son, Rehoboam.
Although Solomon himself was wise, he failed to teach wisdom to his son,
but he wrote much wisdom, which is recorded in the books of Proverbs
and Ecclesiastes.
Perhaps his son Rehoboan, didn't care much for his dad or his writings.
Solomon followed his father
David
as king of Israel as it was, before splitting into two nations, that of
Israel and Judah.(map).
Before the split, Solomon
reigned over all Israel from the city of Jerusalem:.1Kings
11:42 "And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel
was forty years."
Solomon had it all,
because the Creator gave it to him:.Ecclesiastes
1:12-18;
2:1-10; 1Kings
4:29-34 "And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much
and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore. And
Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country
and all the wisdom of Egypt.(an
example 1Kings 3:16-28).
For he was wiser than all men, wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite and Heman
and Chalcol and Darda, the sons of Mahol. His fame was in all nations round
about. And he spake three thousand proverbs
and his songs were a thousand and five. And he spake of trees, from the
cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springs out of
the wall. He spake also of beasts and of fowl and of creeping things and
of fishes. And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon,
from all kings of the Earth, which had heard of his wisdom."
1Kings
4:26 "And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots
and twelve thousand horsemen." Luke 12:27
"Consider the lilies how they grow. They toil not. They spin not and yet
I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed
like one of these."
Solomon had three thousand
three hunderd officers over the seventy four thousand workers he had.(1Kings
3:5-15).and
still needed others for the project he was working on.
Just why did the Creator
give all this to him?.2Chronicles
1:7-12 "In that night did God appear unto Solomon and said unto him,
Ask what I shall give you. And Solomon said unto God, You have showed great
mercy unto David my father and
have made me to reign in his stead. Now, O Lord God, let your promise unto
David my father be established. For you have made me king over a people
like the dust of the Earth in multitude. Give me now wisdom
and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people. For who
can judge this your people, that is so great.(so
many in number)? And God said to Solomon,
Because this was in your heart and you have not asked riches, wealth or
honour, nor the life of your enemies, neither yet have asked long life,
but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself, that you may judge my
people over whom I have made you king, wisdom and knowledge is granted
unto you and I will give you riches and wealth and honour such as none
of the kings have had that have been before you, neither shall there any
after you have the like."
Comprised from.Easton's
Bible Dictionary: The word 'Solomon' means 'peaceful'. Solomon
was
David's second son by Bathsheba.
He was probably born about B.C.E.
1035:.1Chronicles
22:5; 29:1.
He succeeded his father David
on the throne in early manhood, probably at about sixteen or eighteen years
of age.
Nathan, to whom his education
was entrusted, called him Jedidiah, meaning 'beloved of the Lord':.2Samuel
12:24,25. His father chose him as his successor, passing over the claims
of his elder sons:.1Kings
1:13 ".....Assuredly Solomon my son shall reign after me.....".His
history is recorded in 1Kings
1-11th chapters and 2Chronicles
1-9th chapters. Though he built the temple of God, he was not a good
king for the people:.1Kings
11:6.
His elevation to the throne
took place before his father's death and was hastened on mainly by Nathan
and Bathsheba, in consequence of the rebellion of Adonijah, David's son:.1Kings
1:5-40. During his long reign of forty years, B.C.E. 1015-975, the
Hebrew monarchy
gained its highest splendor.
The first half of his reign was however, by far the brighter and more prosperous.
The latter half of Solomon's
life was clouded by the idolatries into which he fell, mainly from his
heathen
intermarriages:.1Kings
11:1; 14:21,31;.Nehemiah
13:26 "Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among
many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God and
God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless
even he allowed outlandish.(Solomon
liked
exotic
women).women
to cause him to sin.".God
became displeased with Solomon and gave his kingdom to he who became known
as Jeroboam
I:.1Kings
11:31. With all the wisdom Solomon knew and taught, he let these women
turn his heart away from it.
Solomon was the wisest man
who ever lived, except when it came to his love of strange women. Read
the books of.Proverbs.and.Ecclesiastes.and
the.Song
of Solomon.and
gain from his wisdom. If you want to be wise, walk with wise people and
learn wise things that affect the heart, like 1,
2.
Also treasure wise books and information on the Internet.
The lesson of king Solomon's
life is, no matter how much wisdom you have, no matter how much wealth
you have, without the
constant.determination
toward continuance
of high consciousness ways, you'll lose it. Look what happened to Solomon:.1Kings
11:1-11.
But, at the end of his life
and looking back on it all, he came to see the determination he should
have held close to his heart in earlier years:.Ecclesiastes
2:12; 12:13.
Before his death David gave
parting instructions to his son Solomon:.1Kings
2:1-9;
1Chronicles 22:7-16.
As soon as he had settled
himself in his kingdom, Solomon arranged the affairs of his extensive empire
and entered into an alliance with Egypt by the marriage of the daughter
of Pharaoh.(1Kings
3:1), of whom however, nothing
further is recorded.
Solomon surrounded himself
with all the luxuries and the external grandeur of an Eastern monarch and
his government prospered. He entered into an alliance with Hiram, king
of Tyre, who in many ways greatly assisted him in his numerous undertakings.
For some years before his
death, David was engaged in the active work of collecting materials.(1Chronicles
29:6-9;
2Chronicles 2:3-7).for
building a temple in Jerusalem
as a permanent
abode for the ark
of the covenant:.1Chronicles
22:19.
David was not permitted to
build the house of the Creator, called
a tabernacle:.1Chronicles
22:6-8. That honor was to done by his son Solomon.
After the completion of the
temple, Solomon engaged in the erection of many other buildings of importance
in Jerusalem and in other parts of his kingdom. For the long space of thirteen
years he was engaged in the erection of a royal palace on Ophel.(a
part of ancient Jerusalem close to the temple):.1Kings
7:1-12.
It was 100 cubits.(one
cubit anciently is arm's length to tip of middle finger from the elbow,
so about 17-24 inches).long,
50 cubits broad and 30 high. Its lofty roof was supported by forty five
cedar pillars, so that the hall was like a forest of cedar wood. In front
of this 'house' was another building, which was called the Porch of Pillars
and in front of this again was the 'Hall of Judgment' or Throne room.(1Kings
7:7; 10:18-20; 2Chronicles
9:17-19), 'the King's Gate', where
he administered justice and gave audience to his people. This palace was
a building of great magnificence and beauty. A portion of it was set apart
as the residence of the queen consort.(his
companion), the daughter of Pharaoh.
From the palace there was a private staircase of red and scented sandal
wood which led up to the temple.
Solomon also constructed
great works for the purpose of securing a plentiful supply of water for
the city:.Ecclesiastes
2:4-6. He then built Millo for the defence of the city, completing
a line of ramparts.(a
fortification consisting of an embankment, often with a parapet
{a low protective wall or railing along the edge of a raised structure
such as a roof or balcony} built on top).around
it:.1Kings
9:15,24; 11:27. He erected also
many other fortifications for the defence of his kingdom at various points
where it was exposed to the assault of enemies:.1Kings
9:15-19; 2Chronicles 8:2-6.
Among his great undertakings
must also be mentioned the building of Tadmor in the wilderness as a commercial
depot, as well as a military outpost.
During his reign Palestine
enjoyed great commercial prosperity. Extensive traffic was carried on by
land with Tyre and Egypt and Arabia and by sea with Spain and India and
the coasts of Africa, by which Solomon accumulated vast stores of wealth
and of the produce of all nations:.1Kings
9:26-28;
10:11,12;
2Chronicles
8:17,18; 9:21.
Solomon died after 40 years
ruling Israel:.1Kings
11:42,43.
This was the 'golden age'
of physical Israel.
The royal magnificence and splendor of Solomon's court were
unrivaled.....Solomon
continues