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The Davidic line refers to the descendants of David, who established the House of David (Hebrew: בֵּית דָּוִד Bēt Dāwīḏ) in the Kingdom of Israel and Judah. In Judaism , it is based on texts from the Hebrew Bible , as well as on later Jewish traditions .
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.
Jesus is presented as the long-awaited Messiah, who was expected to be a descendant of King David. Matthew begins by calling Jesus the son of David , indicating his royal origin, and also son of Abraham , indicating that he was an Israelite; both are stock phrases, in which son means descendant , calling to mind the promises God made to David ...
[citation needed] Christians argue that Joseph adopted Jesus as his legal son and thus Jesus became both David's direct descendant through David's son Nathan (Luke's genealogy) and David's legal royal heir through Solomon (Matthew's genealogy). [citation needed] Critics claim this is just a required reinterpretation of the prophecy.
Yahia Ben Rabbi (c.1145 – 1222) (pronounced YAH-hee-yah), also known as Yahia the Negro, was a Portuguese nobleman.He was reputed to be a direct descendant of the Hebrew exilarchs of ancient Babylonia that claimed direct descent from the Biblical King David [1] and was the eponymous progenitor of the Ibn Yahya family.
He and his descendants (which included the Aksumite royal house) ruled Ethiopia until overthrown by the Zagwe usurpers. Yekuno Amlak, as a supposed direct descendant of Menelik I, was therefore claimed to have "restored" the Solomonic line. [1] However, there is no historical evidence supporting the legends or Yekuno Amlak's ancestry.
The former Kate Middleton and her father-in-law, King Charles III, both received cancer diagnoses this year. After the king underwent a procedure for an enlarged prostate, cancer was found ...
Like his Bagratid ancestors, David entertained claims of descent from the biblical king David. He was a direct descendant of the first Georgian Bagratid monarch Ashot I (died 826/830) and bore known lineage, among others, from the Abkhazian, Alanian, Artsruni, Bagratuni, and Guaramid dynasties. David's immediate family consisted of his two ...