This writing focuses on the fact that no matter what took place during the reigns of certain kings, the lineage from David remained intact. The high priest never tried to stop the lineage. In fact, the high priest Kohen Gadol intervened in order to uphold the Davidic lineage in the case of Joash.
King David
David’s first interactions with Bathsheba are described in 2 Samuel 11, and are omitted in the Books of Chronicles. David, while walking on the roof of his palace, saw a very beautiful woman bathing. He ordered enquiries and found out that she was Bathsheba, wife of Uriah. He desired her and later made her pregnant.[2][3][4]
In an effort to conceal his sin, David summoned Uriah from the army (with whom he was on campaign) in the hope that Uriah would have sex with her and think that the child belonged to him. But Uriah was unwilling to violate the ancient kingdom rule applying to warriors in active service.[5] Rather than go home to his own bed, he preferred to remain with the palace troops. David seducing Bathsheba. Anonymous 17th century painting.
After repeated efforts to convince Uriah to have sex with Bathsheba the king gave the order to his general, Joab, that Uriah should be placed on the front lines of the battle, where Uriah would be more likely to die. David had Uriah himself carry the message that led to his death. After Uriah had been killed, David married Bathsheba.
David’s action was displeasing to the Lord, who sent Nathan the prophet to reprove the king. After relating the parable of the rich man who took away the one little ewe lamb of his poor neighbor (2 Samuel 12:1–6), and exciting the king’s anger against the unrighteous act, the prophet applied the case directly to David’s action with regard to Bathsheba. The king at once confessed his sin and expressed sincere repentance. Bathsheba’s first child by David was struck with a severe illness and died, unnamed, a few days after birth, which the king accepted as his punishment. Nathan also noted that David’s house would be punished for Uriah’s murder.
Bathsheba later gave birth to David’s son Solomon. In David’s old age, Bathsheba, based on David’s promise, secured the succession to the throne by Solomon, instead of David’s elder surviving sons by his other wives, such as Chileab (2 Samuel 3:1–6), Adonijah (1 Kings 1:11–31) and others (2 Samuel 3:1–6). David’s punishment came to pass years later when one of David’s much-loved sons, Absalom, led an insurrection that plunged the kingdom into civil war. Moreover, to manifest his claim to be the new king, Absalom had sexual intercourse in public with ten of his father’s concubines, which could be considered a direct, tenfold divine retribution for David’s taking the woman of another man in secret (2 Samuel 16:20–23).
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathsheba
King Solomon
According to 1 Kings 11:4 Solomon’s “wives turned his heart after other gods”, their own national deities, to whom Solomon built temples, thus incurring divine anger and retribution in the form of the division of the kingdom after Solomon’s death (1 Kings 11:9–13). 1 Kings 11 describes Solomon’s descent into idolatry, particularly his turning after Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom, the abomination of the Ammonites. In Deuteronomy 17:16–17, a king is commanded not to multiply horses or wives, neither greatly multiply to himself gold or silver. Solomon sins in all three of these areas. Solomon collects 666 talents of gold each year (1 Kings 10:14), a huge amount of money for a small nation like Israel. Solomon gathers a large number of horses and chariots and even brings in horses from Egypt. Just as Deuteronomy 17 warns, collecting horses and chariots takes Israel back to Egypt. Finally, Solomon marries foreign women, and these women turn Solomon to other gods.Solomon was said to have sinned by acquiring many foreign wives. Solomon’s descent into idolatry, Willem de Poorter, Rijksmuseum.
According to 1 Kings 11:30–34 and 1 Kings 11:9–13, it was because of these sins that the Lord punishes Solomon by removing most of the Tribes of Israel from rule by Solomon’s house.[41]
And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods. But he did not keep what the Lord commanded. Therefore the Lord said to Solomon, “Since this has been your practice and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes that I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you and will give it to your servant. Yet for the sake of David your father I will not do it in your days, but I will tear it out of the hand of your son. However, I will not tear away all the kingdom, but I will give one tribe to your son, for the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem that I have chosen.
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon#Sins_and_punishment
Rehoboam
His misguided policies caused the split of the kingdom.
Jehoshaphat
A very righteous king who committed a fatal error when he took Ahab’s daughter, Athaliah, for his son Jehoram.
Athaliah
She exterminated the entire royal family except for the infant Joash, who was hidden in the Temple. Ruled as queen for six years and was fanatically idolatrous. She was slain in a coup engineered by the Kohen Gadol, the high priest, who anointed Joash and placed him on the throne.
Joash
A tragic figure, he started off as a righteous king and oversaw the repair of the Temple; later, however, he imagined himself to be divine and died a wicked man. When the prophet Zechariah rebuked him in the Bais Hamikdash, Joash ordered his men to kill the prophet. The murder was an enormous national crime and had terrible ramifications later in Jewish history.
Uzziah
A righteous king, he made a tragic mistake in thinking that the king could officiate in the Bais Hamikdash. As Uzziah approached the Altar to burn incense, he was stricken with tzoraas, a skin condition that renders one ritually impure. In accordance with Torah law, Uzziah was banished outside Jerusalem and abdicated the throne in favor of his son Jotham.
Manasseh
Although King Hezekiah raised the spiritual level of the Jewish people to its highest degree since the days of David, his wicked son Manasseh undid all his work. His disastrous reign of 55 years introduced paganism on a national level and created a mass movement to imitate the surrounding nations’ idolatrous ways. (Previously, idol worship was only on an individual basis.) Manasseh also ruthlessly suppressed any dissent, and even executed the great prophet Isaiah, perhaps his harshest critic. Although Manasseh repented later in life, the damage he caused was irreversible. His son Amon followed him, and during his short, two-year rule actually outdid his father in wickedness. To demonstrate his contempt for G‑d, Amon burned Torah scrolls and placed an idol in the Kodesh HaKodoshim, the holiest part of the Bais Hamikdash.
Jehoiakim
He was the worst of all the kings of Judah. During his reign, Babylon, (Iraq) after overthrowing Assyria, became the dominant power in the Middle East. In 3319, Babylon’s King Nebuchadnezzar conquered Eretz Israel,allowing Jehoiakim nominal independence while in reality making him a vassal. When Jehoiakim chafed under Babylonian rule and rebelled, Nebuchadnezzar executed him in 3327 and installed Jehoiakim’s son Jehoiachin on the throne.
From: https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/2837571/jewish/The-20-Davidic-Monarchs-and-the-Southern-Kingdom-of-Israel.htm#:~:text=%20The%2020%20Davidic%20Monarchs%20and%20the%20Southern,righteous%20king%20who%20committed%20a%20fatal…%20More%20
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davidic_line#:~:text=The%20Davidic%20line%20or%20House%20of%20David%20%28known,the%20New%20Testament%2C%20and%20through%20the%20succeeding%20centuries.
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