Yesterday we heard of the assignments of Levites as musicians, judges, and temple gate keepers.
Today's highlighted proverb:
14 The mouth of an immoral woman is a dangerous trap;
those who make the LORD angry will fall into it.
I did not take time in yesterday’s podcast to say that the genealogy in Matthew is that of Mary, rather than Joseph’s genealogy. (Luke prefaces that genealogy with the words “as was supposed.”) One interesting detail is that Luke’s record includes King Joconiah, of whom Jeremiah said in chapter 22, “This is what the Lord days: ‘Record this man as if childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime, for none of his offspring will prosper, none will sit on the throne of David or rule anymore in Judah.’” If this cursed king, Jeconiah, was included in the genealogy of Jesus, then Jesus could not be the Messiah King of Israel. But in Matthew we find the genealogy traced instead through Nathan, and there was no curse on Nathan’s line.
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