by
in Matthew 1’s Genealogy of Jesus the
Messiah.
“Manasseh”, on the other hand, appears
there in 1:10.
These are my most recent articles in favour of what I now
consider to be a:
Necessary fusion of Hezekiah
and Josiah
(7)
Necessary fusion of Hezekiah and Josiah
Striking a match for Shebna
(Sobna) in Hezekiah-Josiah parallel universe
(7)
Striking a match for Shebna (Sobna) in Hezekiah-Josiah parallel universe
One important corollary of this parallelism is that
Hezekiah’s idolatrous son, Manasseh, now becomes Josiah’s idolatrous son,
Jehoiakim:
Manasseh – Jehoiakim
The following two texts, I submit, are
describing the very same incident.
Manasseh
2 Chronicles 33:11: “Yahweh then brought down on them the generals of the king of Assyria's
army who captured Manasseh with hooks, put him in chains and took him to
Babylon”.
Jehoiakim
2 Chronicles 36-5-6: “Jehoiakim … did what is displeasing to Yahweh his God. Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon attacked him, loaded him with chains and took him to Babylon”.
Note the common points: Yahweh;
attack by a mighty foe; king of Judah defeated; that king loaded with chains;
and taken off to Babylon.
Now, in my article:
De-coding Jonah
(6) De-coding
Jonah | Damien Mackey - Academia.edu
I had identified
Esarhaddon-Ashurbanipal as Nebuchednezzar.
The note in The Jerusalem Bible (33 b, 2 Chr 34) follows the conventional view
that Esarhaddon, Ashurbanipal, were separate kings: “Manasseh of Judah was a
vassal of Esarhaddon (680-669) and of Assurbanipal (668-633)”.
Esarhaddon-Ashurbanipal was just the one
king, who only once captured Manasseh of Judah.
A few advantages of Manasseh =
Jehoiakim
Some immediate advantages
of this equation are that:
-
It
explains the complete absence of the name “Jehoiakim” in Matthew 1’s Genealogy
of Jesus the Messiah. “Manasseh”, on the other hand, appears there in 1:10;
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It
explains why the prophet Jeremiah would attribute the Babylonian captivity to
the supposedly long dead “Manasseh”, when Jeremiah’s wicked contemporary was
Jehoiakim (Jeremiah 15:4): “And I will cause them to be removed into all
kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of
Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem”;
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It
may supply that supposedly missing biblical evidence for the martyrdom of the
prophet Isaiah, traditionally at the hands of King Manasseh.
See my explanation of this
in e.g. my article:
God can raise up
prophets at will - even from a shepherd of Simeon
(14) God can raise
up prophets at will - even from a shepherd of Simeon
