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Footnotes
[1] Note that the Covenant of Circumcision (Genesis 17:9-12) was made with Abraham and is not connected to the Mt. Sinai Covenant.[2] Saul was of the tribe of Benjamin who was a full brother to Joseph.
[3] A very clever way to cause confusion over the birth place of King David and thus create a location for the supposed place of birth for j-esus would be for the midnight Monks to misname Bethel as Bethlehem.
Matthew 2:18 speaks for this place reporting the slaughter of the innocents of Bethlehem represents Rachel as weeping for her children from her neighboring grave. - Dr Orr.
[4] However, the fact that ‘Christians,’ Jews and Mohammedans unite in honoring this Muslim site of the supposed birthplace of David and j-esus adds suspicion that this is not birthplace of King David. The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, article by James Orr, M.A., D.D.
[5] Tradition and Reality of Holy Tombsin the Madaba Map, by Khalid Nashe. See
http://www.christusrex.org/www1/ofm/mad/articles/NashefTradition.html
[6] Holman Bible Dictionary, QuickVerse for Windows, article “Bethlehem.”
[7] PC Bible Atlas for Windows.
[8] op. cit. Holman Electronic Dictionary.
[9] However, it appears that Jewish scribes mistranslated the Hebrew word for Beth-el into Beth-lehem. This could be due to the two different natures of the Scribes from Pharez and those from Zarah and which group translated Genesis into the Septuagint.
[10] ibid., Holman Electronic Dictionary
[11] ibid.
[12] By the time the book of Ruth was written the Bethel-Bethlehem switch may have already been in the scrolls, but remember that Bethel itself ended up in the tribal area of the House of Judah in the split up of the thirteen tribes after Solomon’s death.
[13] Since Judah is mentioned the book must have been written after Israel and Judah split company or when Ezra canonized the Scriptures. The commentaries say, “he updated names and places.”
[14] Tanakh, The Holy Scriptures, (Philadelphia, Jerusalem: Jewish Publication Society) 1985.
[15] Remember, Rachel, Jacob’s wife, was buried near Bethel or Ephrathah so it stands to reason that Bethel was Ephrathah.
[16] Lit., “the man in the middle,” i.e. a mighty warrior who would leave his camp and stand alone between the warring armies, challenging the opposing force (Rashi).
[17] (Strong’s #H673) “An Ephraimite.”
[18] Op. cit. Stone’s Edition of the Tanakh, “Bethlehem, in the providence of Judah, was in an area known as Ephrath. Scriptures recapitulates Jesse’s background because David is about to become the savior of the nation.”
[19] David the King was from the village Ephrath, which later was incorporated into the land of Judah. If you think that a person’s bloodline is the determining factor of who that person is, then David was an Ephraimite King; but if you think that the country that his place of birth was absorbed into is the determining factor, then David was a Jewish King. The point here is to note the bloodline from King David through Solomon to Zedekiah is Rehoboam, Abijah, Asa, Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, Ahaziah, Athaliah, Joas, Amaziah, Azariah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, Menasseh, Amon, Josiah, Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, Jehoiachin, and Zedekiah is the same. Therefore, whatever tribal affiliation you reckon to King David, that same lineage continues to King Zedekiah (1 Chronicles 3:10-16). Since Zedekiah is the last Davidic king of Judah, this becomes very important later in this booklet.
[20] Refer to our soon to be updated booklet “New Proof of the Messiah.”
[21] “The Hebrew word ‘iysh usually means man but it is a contraction of the word ‘enowsh’ which simply means ‘a mortal’ or ‘person’ or ‘heir.’” In this case, “heir” is a better translation, as we will see later, The Theological Word Book of the Old Testament by R. Harris.
