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  2. Davidic line - Wikipedia

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    Davidic line. The Davidic line or House of David (Hebrew: בֵּית דָּוִד, romanized: Bēt Dāvīḏ) is the lineage of the Israelite king David. In Judaism, it is based on texts from the Hebrew Bible and through the succeeding centuries based on later traditions. According to the Bible, David, of the Tribe of Judah, was the third king ...

  3. Genealogy of Jesus - Wikipedia

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    Genealogy of Jesus. The New Testament provides two accounts of the genealogy of Jesus, one in the Gospel of Matthew and another in the Gospel of Luke. [1] Matthew starts with Abraham and works forwards, while Luke works back in time from Jesus to Adam. The lists of names are identical between Abraham and David (whose royal ancestry affirms ...

  4. David - Wikipedia

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    David (/ ˈdeɪvɪd /; Biblical Hebrew: דָּוִד‎, romanized: Dāwīḏ, "beloved one") [a][5] was a king of ancient Israel and Judah and the third king of the United Monarchy, [6][7] according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament. According to Jewish works such as the Seder Olam Rabbah, Seder Olam Zutta, and Sefer ha-Qabbalah (all ...

  5. Early Christianity - Wikipedia

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    The term is most associated with King David, to whom God promised an eternal kingdom (2 Samuel 7:11–17). After the destruction of David's kingdom and lineage, this promise was reaffirmed by the prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel, who foresaw a future king from the House of David who would establish and reign over an idealized kingdom. [20]

  6. Claim of the biblical descent of the Bagrationi dynasty

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    The family's alleged Hebrew provenance was utilized and elaborated by the Georgian Bagratids to claim the descent from the divinely appointed model biblical king David, himself a descendant, in an unbroken line, of Adam and the ancestor of Jesus Christ, at the same time obscuring the dynasty's true origin and blood-ties with Armenian cousins.

  7. Kingdom of Judah - Wikipedia

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    c. 930 BCE[1] • Siege of Jerusalem. c. 587 BCE. Succeeded by. Yehud (Babylonian province) The Kingdom of Judah[a] was an Israelite kingdom of the Southern Levant during the Iron Age. Centered in the highlands to the west of the Dead Sea, the kingdom's capital was Jerusalem. [3] It was ruled by the Davidic line for four centuries. [4]

  8. Priesthood of Melchizedek - Wikipedia

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    The majority of Chazalic literature attributes the primary character of psalm 110 as King David [6] who was a "righteous king" (מלכי צדק) of Salem (Jerusalem) and, like Melchizedek, had certain priest-like responsibilities, while the Babylonian Talmud understands the chapter as referring to Abram who was victorious in battling to save his nephew Lot and merited priesthood. [7]

  9. Triumphal entry into Jerusalem - Wikipedia

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    In Luke and John, the crowd explicitly claims that Jesus is the king of Israel already, without any reference to David. [ 30 ] [ 27 ] According to Huffman 2012 , pp. 10, Luke portrayed Jesus' coming kingdom as spiritual, seeking 'peace in heaven', rather than a political threat to the Roman Empire.