![]() ![]() After Uzziah, each successive king of Judah is attested to in some form, with the exception of Amon of Judah: Jotham, Uzziah's successor, is named on the seals of his own son and successor, Ahaz, who ruled from 732 to 716 BCE. A controversial artifact called the Jehoash Tablet recalls deeds performed by Jehoash of Judah, who reigned about 44 years before Uzziah however, scholars are tensely divided on whether or not the inscription is genuine. Additionally, a tombstone dated to the Second Temple Period claiming to mark the grave (or, reburial) site of Uzziah, was discovered in a convent on the Mount of Olives 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. Uzziah may also be mentioned in the annals of Tiglath-Pileser III however, the texts are largely fragmentary. The earliest unambiguously attested king from the Davidic line is Uzziah, 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. Because the stele coincides the death of the Davidic king with the death of ram, the king of the Kingdom of Samaria, scholars have reconstructed the second slain king as Ahaziah of Judah, the only king contemporary to Jehoram with a name ending in -yahū. All that remains of the name is the final syllable, the extremely common theophoric suffix -yahū. 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. The Tel Dan Stele mentions the death of the reigning king from "BYTDWD", (interpreted as "House of David") and thus far is the only extrabiblical explicit mention of David himself. Very little is conclusively known about the House of David. Historicity The Tel Dan Stele, with mention of the "House of David" highlighted in white. In Jewish eschatology, the Messiah is a future Jewish king from the Davidic line, who is expected to rule the Jewish people during the Messianic Age and world to come. In Judaism and Christianity, the Davidic Line is the bloodline from which the Hebrew Messiah has a patrilineal descent. The Hasmoneans, who established their own monarchy in Judea in the 2nd century BCE, were not considered connected to the Davidic line nor to the Tribe of Judah. The kingdom fell to the Neo-Babylonian Empire in 587/6 BCE. All subsequent monarchs of Judah, except Athaliah, are said to be direct descendants of David. The southern tribes of Judah and Benjamin remained loyal to the House of David, and this kingdom came to be known as the Kingdom of Judah. After Solomon's death, the ten northern tribes rejected the Davidic line, refusing to accept Solomon's son, Rehoboam, and instead chose Jeroboam as king and formed the northern Kingdom of Israel. ![]() ![]() He was later succeeded by his son, Solomon. In Christianity, the New Testament follows the line through Mary and Joseph to Jesus.Īccording to the Bible, David, of the Tribe of Judah, was the third king of the United Monarchy of Israel and Judah. In Judaism it is based on texts from the Hebrew Bible and through the succeeding centuries based on later traditions. The Davidic line or House of David ( Hebrew: בֵּית דָּוִד, romanized: Bēt Dāvīḏ) is the lineage of the Israelite king David. ![]()
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