{"id":10253,"date":"2021-12-06T20:17:48","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T20:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/watchmannews.kinsta.cloud\/?p=10253"},"modified":"2022-04-19T06:15:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T06:15:58","slug":"judahs-sceptre-and-josephs-birthright-pt4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchman.news\/nl\/2021\/12\/judahs-sceptre-and-josephs-birthright-pt4\/","title":{"rendered":"JUDAH&#8217;S SCEPTRE AND JOSEPH&#8217;S BIRTHRIGHT pt4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/watchman.news\/nl\/2021\/12\/judahs-sceptre-and-josephs-birthright-pt1\/\">JUDAH&#8217;S SCEPTRE AND JOSEPH&#8217;S BIRTHRIGHT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>by Allen (1917)<\/p>\n<p>CHAPTER IV.<\/p>\n<p>JACOB&#8217;S SEED DIVIDED INTO TWO KINGDOMS.<\/p>\n<p>     When Boaz took Ruth &#8230; for a wife, the people who were<br \/>\nassembled prayed for her, saying: &#8220;The Lord make thee like Rachel<br \/>\nand like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel.&#8221; The fact<br \/>\nthat these two women, as the wives of Jacob, were the builders of<br \/>\nthe house of Israel, would of necessity divide the immediate<br \/>\nhousehold of Jacob into two families. Hence the pertinency of the<br \/>\nquestion: &#8220;Considerest thou not the two families which the Lord<br \/>\nhath chosen?&#8221; (Jer.33:24.)<br \/>\n     Since the covenant promise of the <a href=\"https:\/\/watchman.news\/nl\/2021\/12\/judahs-sceptre-and-josephs-birthright-pt1\/\">Birthright<\/a> was given to<br \/>\none of these two families, and that of the <a href=\"https:\/\/watchman.news\/nl\/2021\/12\/judahs-sceptre-and-josephs-birthright-pt1\/\">Sceptre<\/a> to the other,<br \/>\nit would be but natural &#8211; especially since one of these<br \/>\nforthcoming blessings was to be so much superior to the other &#8211;<br \/>\nfor these families to keep somewhat apart, so as to keep their<br \/>\nfamily distinctions intact. This they did, and yet they dwelt<br \/>\ntogether for a number of centuries, apparently without any<br \/>\nfactions whatever.<br \/>\n     Together, as one nation, they lived on in Goshen. Together<br \/>\nde <a href=\"https:\/\/watchman.news\/nl\/2021\/12\/judahs-sceptre-and-josephs-birthright-pt1\/\">Sceptre and the Birthright<\/a> families are pressed into bondage.<br \/>\nTogether the children of Rachel, of whom it was prophesied that<br \/>\nthere should be thousands of millions, and the children of Leah,<br \/>\nthe mother of coming royalty &#8211; royalty which, as the sequel<br \/>\nproves, is not only the grandest and best that this world will<br \/>\never know, but also the most glorious that will ever be known in<br \/>\nall the universe of God &#8211; together they bend their necks to the<br \/>\nyoke, and their backs to the burdens. Together they serve those<br \/>\nunjust taskmasters. Together their Lord, whose presence was with<br \/>\nthem, brought them out of that galling Egyptian servitude, out<br \/>\nthrough the Red Sea, and into the wilderness. There, still<br \/>\ntogether, they refreshed their spirits by drinking from that<br \/>\nspiritual Rock which followed them; and there they refreshed<br \/>\ntheir bodies with drink from that literal rock which, as we shall<br \/>\nprove, they carried with them. Together they ate the same<br \/>\nspiritual and temporal meat, albeit, at times, that temporal meat<br \/>\nwas angels&#8217; food which God sent down from one of their<br \/>\nhabitations.<br \/>\n     Together they crossed the Jordan, marched around Jericho,<br \/>\ndrove out the Canaanites, and &#8211; for a season only &#8211; inhabited<br \/>\nthat promised land; in which they enjoyed the blessings and<br \/>\nprivileges of a theocratic government. But it is recorded that<br \/>\nthey lightly esteemed the Rock of their salvation, cried down the<br \/>\ntheocracy, and shouted over a man-archy. Refusing Him who had<br \/>\nhonored, protected and cherished them as a husband doth a wife,<br \/>\ndespising that Divine One who had followed them and led them, and<br \/>\nnourished them, and fought for them, they demanded that like the<br \/>\nnations around them, a man should be their king.<br \/>\n     Then it was that there arose trouble, trouble which resulted<br \/>\nin strifes and factions galore; for after the establishment of<br \/>\nthe monarchy only three kings &#8211; namely Saul, David and Solomon &#8211;<br \/>\nreigned over all Israel in one united kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>     After the death of Solomon, contingencies arose in Israel,<br \/>\nwhich brought the two families that held the covenant blessings<br \/>\nface to face with issues that resulted in a division of the<br \/>\nnation, which placed both the families of Rachel and Leah &#8211; or<br \/>\nmore properly, Judah and Joseph, since they are the<br \/>\npromise-holders &#8211; into positions to fulfill their God-appointed<br \/>\ndestinies. And yet we shall find that the mills of God do grind &#8211;<br \/>\noh, so very slowly.<\/p>\n<p>     There is contained in the eleventh and twelfth chapters of<br \/>\nthe book of First Kings a record of the division of the tribes of<br \/>\nIsrael into two kingdoms, with a son of the royal family as king<br \/>\nover one kingdom, and a son of the house of Joseph as king over<br \/>\nthe other and larger kingdom.<br \/>\n     King Solomon had married strange wives, and because of them<br \/>\nhe had burnt incense, and sacrificed unto Moloch and other idols;<br \/>\nand because of this, &#8220;The Lord said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as<br \/>\nthis is done of thee, and thou bast not kept my covenant and my<br \/>\nstatutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the<br \/>\nkingdom from thee, and give it to thy servant. Notwithstanding,<br \/>\nin thy days I will not do it, for David thy father&#8217;s sake; but I<br \/>\nwill rend it out of the hand of thy son. Howbeit I will not rend<br \/>\naway all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to thy son for<br \/>\nDavid my servant&#8217;s sake, and for Jerusalem&#8217;s sake which I have<br \/>\nchosen.&#8221;  1 Kings 11:11-13.<br \/>\n     The twenty-sixth verse of the same chapter speaks of<br \/>\nJeroboam, the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite, Solomon&#8217;s servant. It<br \/>\nis known that the word Ephrathite means Ephraimite. The record<br \/>\nfurther states &#8211; &#8220;And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor:<br \/>\nand Solomon seeing the young man that he was industrious, he made<br \/>\nhim ruler over all the charge of the house of Joseph.&#8221; 1 Kings<br \/>\n11:28.<br \/>\n     When the Birthright was transferred to the sons of Joseph,<br \/>\nEphraim, the younger, was set before Manasseh, the elder, and,<br \/>\naside from the fact of joint inheritance in the multitude of<br \/>\nposterity, Ephraim seems to enjoy the special Birthright, or<br \/>\nfirst-born distinctions. This is shown in several ways; but at<br \/>\npresent we will only call your attention to the fact that God<br \/>\nsays: &#8220;I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first-born.&#8221;<br \/>\nJer.31:9.<br \/>\n     We have in this man Jeroboam, a servant of Solomon&#8217;s, an<br \/>\nEphraimite, who was ruler over all the Birthright family. God had<br \/>\ntold Solomon, that after his death he would give the kingdom to<br \/>\nhis servant, but, &#8220;not all.&#8221; In harmony with these things we read<br \/>\n&#8220;And it came to pass that at the time when Jeroboam went out of<br \/>\nJerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah, the Shilonite, found him in<br \/>\nthe way; and he had clad himself with a new garment; and the two<br \/>\nwere alone in the field. And Ahijah caught the new garment that<br \/>\nwas on him, and rent it in twelve pieces. And he said to<br \/>\nJeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus saith the Lord, the God<br \/>\nof Israel, Behold I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of<br \/>\nSolomon, and will give ten tribes to thee.   * * * Howbeit I will<br \/>\nnot take the whole kingdom out of his hand : *    *    *    for<br \/>\nDavid my servant&#8217;s sake, whom I chose, because he kept my<br \/>\ncommandments and my statutes. But I will take the kingdom out of<br \/>\nhis son&#8217;s hand, and will give it unto thee, even ten tribes.<br \/>\nAnd unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may<br \/>\nhave a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have<br \/>\nchosen to put my name there.  And I will take thee, and thou<br \/>\nshalt reign according to all that thy soul desireth, and thou<br \/>\nshalt be king over Israel.&#8221;<br \/>\n     In this prophecy, there is made a promise to a son of the<br \/>\nhouse of Joseph, that he shall reign over ten tribes, and be king<br \/>\nover Israel. Hence if Jeroboam ever received his promised<br \/>\nkingdom, it must have been formed by a confederacy of ten of the<br \/>\ntribes of Israel, and that ten-tribed kingdom or confederation<br \/>\nmust needs be called &#8220;ISRAEL,&#8221; or the prophecy fails.<br \/>\n     After this prophecy, which God gave to Ahijah to deliver to<br \/>\nJeroboam, was made public, Solomon became so jealous for himself<br \/>\nand posterity that he undertook to kill Jeroboam; while he, in<br \/>\norder to escape the wrath of Solomon, fled to Egypt and remained<br \/>\nthere until after the death of Solomon. At the death of Solomon<br \/>\nthe royal succession fell to his son, Rehoboam, who, at the time<br \/>\nof his accession, had gathered with all Israel at Shechem, the<br \/>\nplace where, for reasons which will be given later, Israel<br \/>\ncrowned her sovereigns. But difficulties arose. The people had<br \/>\ngrievances which they wanted adjusted, before they were willing<br \/>\nto submit to the rule of this young sovereign. Solomon had laid<br \/>\nupon them an enormous tax for the building and furnishing of the<br \/>\ntemple and royal palaces. These were finished and furnished, but<br \/>\nthe taxes were not abated. Also there was this taxation without<br \/>\nrepresentation by any in Israel, except from the royal tribe of<br \/>\nJudah. Still, in spite of the fact that a spirit of rebellion had<br \/>\npossession of them because of these facts, they were willing to<br \/>\nhold a consultation with Rehoboam, in hope that their condition<br \/>\nmight be bettered and amity might still prevail. So they made<br \/>\nJeroboam their spokesman, and directed him to say to the young<br \/>\nking; &#8220;Thy father made our yoke grievous; now, therefore, make<br \/>\nthou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which<br \/>\nhe put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee.&#8221;<br \/>\n     His reply to this request was, &#8220;Depart yet for three days,<br \/>\nthen come again to me.&#8221; During this three days of grace, which he<br \/>\nhad asked, and they had granted, Rehoboam first consulted with<br \/>\nthe old men, asking them how they would advise him to answer the<br \/>\npeople. They gave him wholesome counsel, saying to him that if he<br \/>\nwould &#8220;Speak good words to them, then they will be thy servants<br \/>\nforever.&#8221;<br \/>\n     Then he consulted with the young men, with whom he had grown<br \/>\nup, asking them how they would advise him. But their advice was<br \/>\nhasty and hot-headed. They said, &#8220;Thus shalt thou say unto them,<br \/>\nMy little finger shall be thicker than my father&#8217;s loins. And<br \/>\nnow, whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add<br \/>\nto your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will<br \/>\nchastise you with scorpions.&#8221;<br \/>\n     When the three days had expired, Jeroboam and the people<br \/>\ncame again to King Rehoboam, as he had appointed, to receive the<br \/>\nanswer to their request. Then Rehoboam answered them roughly,<br \/>\nforsaking the counsel of the old men, and adhering to the counsel<br \/>\nwhich the young men in their pride and egotism had given, using<br \/>\ntheir very words. &#8220;Whips&#8221; and &#8220;scorpions!&#8221; How insulting! Surely<br \/>\nin all the figures of speech there could not have been chosen any<br \/>\nso hard for that &#8220;elect&#8221; people to swallow. But they did not<br \/>\nswallow them; they rebelled. The command to the people was, &#8220;To<br \/>\nyour tents, O Israel!&#8221; The challenge to the royal house was,<br \/>\n&#8220;Now, see to thy own house!&#8221;<br \/>\n     Rehoboam&#8217;s next move was to send Adoram, who had charge of<br \/>\nthe tribute, to collect the taxes then due. But instead of paying<br \/>\ntheir taxes, the people stoned the man to death; and as soon as<br \/>\nRehoboam heard this, he fled in his chariot, and with all speed,<br \/>\nto Jerusalem.<br \/>\n     Then comes the following: &#8220;So Israel rebelled against the<br \/>\nhouse of David unto this day. And it came to pass, when all<br \/>\nIsrael heard that Jeroboam was come again, that they sent and<br \/>\ncalled him unto the congrega tion and made him king over all<br \/>\nIsrael.   *    *    *    And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem,<br \/>\nhe assembled all the house of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin,<br \/>\nan hundred and four score thousand men which were warriors, to<br \/>\nfight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to<br \/>\nRehoboam, the son of Solomon. But the word of God came unto<br \/>\nShemaniah the man of God, saying, Speak unto Rehoboam, the son of<br \/>\nSolomon, king of Judah, and unto all the house of Judah and<br \/>\nBenjamin, and to the remnant of the people, saying, Thus saith<br \/>\nthe Lord, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren the<br \/>\nchildren of Israel: return every man to his house; for this thing<br \/>\nis from me.&#8221; i. e., the division.  1 Kings 12:19-24.<\/p>\n<p>     Well may the Lord say, &#8220;This thing is from me.&#8221; In the<br \/>\ndivision of that race into two kingdoms, he has fulfilled his<br \/>\nword to Solomon concerning the rending of the kingdom out of the<br \/>\nhand of his son, and giving it to his servant. Yet, in doing so,<br \/>\nhe remembered not only his oath to David, but also his word to<br \/>\nSolomon, in that he did not rend away all the kingdom; for there<br \/>\nwas one tribe, that of Benjamin, left with the royal tribe.<br \/>\n     Also the prophecy of Ahijah to Jeroboam was fulfilled, for<br \/>\nhe became king of the ten-tribed kingdom, which, by Divine<br \/>\nappointment, retained the national name of Israel, while that of<br \/>\nJudah was given to the other kingdom. Thus the titles &#8220;House of<br \/>\nIsrael,&#8221; and the &#8220;House of Judah&#8221; are used to designate the two<br \/>\nkingdoms, as they stand separated and in opposition to each<br \/>\nother.<br \/>\n     Moreover, since the Birthright tribes, Ephraim and Manasseh,<br \/>\nwent with the ten-tribed kingdom, and a scion of the house of<br \/>\nJoseph, to whom pertains the Birthright, was king over that<br \/>\nkingdom, and a son of the royal house of Judah, to whom pertains<br \/>\nthe Sceptre, was king over the other kingdom, which bears the<br \/>\nname of the inheritor of the Sceptre, then, surely, <a href=\"https:\/\/watchman.news\/nl\/2021\/12\/judahs-sceptre-and-josephs-birthright-pt1\/\">the Sceptre<br \/>\nand the Birthright<\/a> were separated then and there. They were not<br \/>\nonly separated, but each became a nucleus around which either the<br \/>\none or the other, of all the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,<br \/>\ndid gather. Thus the <a href=\"https:\/\/watchman.news\/nl\/2021\/12\/judahs-sceptre-and-josephs-birthright-pt1\/\">SCEPTRE and the BIRTHRIGHT<\/a> families each<br \/>\nbecame the head and representative of a distinct nation, or<br \/>\ncommonwealth. Each was then free to go forward, independent of<br \/>\nthe other, and fulfill its God-appointed destiny; one to fulfill<br \/>\nthe first covenant which the Lord made with their father Abraham,<br \/>\nthat of becoming many nations, and the other to fulfill the<br \/>\nsecond covenant of bringing forth the Messiah.<\/p>\n<p>(From that time on in the prophetic books Israel is the 10-tribes<br \/>\nand Judah the 3-tribes. They are always each other and never is<br \/>\none taken for the other, not in the prophetic books from Isaiah<br \/>\nto Malachi &#8211; Israel is Israel (10 tribes) and Judah is Judah (3<br \/>\ntribes) &#8211; Keith Hunt)<\/p>\n<p>     The first thing recorded of Jeroboam, as king of Israel, is<br \/>\nthat he built the city of Shechem, in Mount Ephraim, and dwelt<br \/>\nthere. This city was the first capital of that kingdom. From<br \/>\nthere the king of Israel went out and built the city of Penuel,<br \/>\nand seemed to prosper for a short season. But Jeroboam fell to<br \/>\nthinking that, if his subjects were allowed to continue going to<br \/>\nJerusalem to sacrifice unto the Lord, their hearts would turn<br \/>\nagain to Rehoboam, whose capital city it was, and they would then<br \/>\nkill him, and go again to the kingdom of Judah.<br \/>\n     Therefore he made two calves of gold, and said unto the<br \/>\npeople, &#8220;It is too much (trouble) for you to go to Jerusalem:<br \/>\nbehold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land<br \/>\nof Egypt. And he set one in Bethel, and one in Dan. And this<br \/>\nthing became a sin, for the people went to worship before the one<br \/>\n(in Bethel), and even unto Dan. And he made a house of high<br \/>\nplaces, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were<br \/>\nnot of the sons of Levi. And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the<br \/>\neighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the<br \/>\nfeast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he<br \/>\nin Bethel, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he<br \/>\nplaced in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had<br \/>\nmade. So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Bethel,<br \/>\non the fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which<br \/>\nhe had devised in his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the<br \/>\nChildren of Israel, and he offered upon the altar and burnt<br \/>\nincense.&#8221; 1 Kings 12:28-33.<br \/>\n     This was the great sin which was such a curse to the people.<br \/>\nBut we want you to note just how the Lord speaks of it. After the<br \/>\nprophet whom he had sent out of Judah had proclaimed the doom of<br \/>\nJeroboam, he further adds: &#8220;The Lord shall smite Israel, as a<br \/>\nreed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of<br \/>\nhis good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter<br \/>\nthem beyond the river, because they have made their groves,<br \/>\nprovoking the Lord to anger. And he shall give Israel up because<br \/>\nof the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to<br \/>\nsin.&#8221; 1 Kings 14:15,16.<\/p>\n<p>     Dear reader, please note that it was Israel, and not Judah,<br \/>\nover which Jeroboam reigned; that it was Israel, and not Judah,<br \/>\nwhom he caused to sin; that it was Israel the ten-tribed kingdom,<br \/>\nand not Judah, the royal kingdom, that worshiped those two golden<br \/>\ncalves which Jeroboam the king of Israel had set up in his own<br \/>\nterritory, and not in the land of Judah; that it was Israel whom<br \/>\nthe Lord declared he would give up, root out of that land, and<br \/>\nscatter beyond the river, because of this thing. For the people<br \/>\nof the kingdom of Judah never did worship those golden calves;<br \/>\nneither did they worship at Bethel, nor in Dan: they worshiped in<br \/>\nJerusalem. Later, the royal kingdom did go into idolatry; but it<br \/>\nwas Baalism, and not this special form of idolatry which had its<br \/>\norigin in Jeroboam, for this was confined alone to Israel.<\/p>\n<p>     We find that the history of the two kingdoms is intermingled<br \/>\nthroughout the books of First and Second Kings, but never<br \/>\nconfounded. So that, with a little care and thoughtfulness on our<br \/>\npart, there need be no confusion. For instance, it is recorded<br \/>\nthat, &#8220;The days which Jeroboam reigned were two-and-twenty years,<br \/>\nand he slept with his fathers, and Nadab, his son, reigned in his<br \/>\nstead.&#8221; 1 Kings 14:20. But the very next verse tells us that,<br \/>\n&#8220;Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, reigned in Judah.  Rehoboam was<br \/>\nforty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen<br \/>\nyears in Jerusalem.&#8221; The two reigns began simultaneously. If<br \/>\nJeroboam&#8217;s reign lasted for twenty-two years, and Rehoboam&#8217;s only<br \/>\nfor seventeen years, then it must needs be that some other king<br \/>\nor kings reigned for five years contemporaneously with Jeroboam,<br \/>\nunless the kingdom of Judah had collapsed; but it had not. So the<br \/>\nrecord declares, &#8220;Now, in the eighteenth year of Jeroboam, the<br \/>\nson of Nabat, reigned Abijah over Judah. Three years reigned he<br \/>\nin Jerusalem.&#8221; 1 Kings 15:1. Seventeen years for Rehoboam and<br \/>\nthree for Abijah, are only twenty of Jeroboam&#8217;s twenty-two years.<br \/>\nSo if the record be correct, we shall expect it to tell who<br \/>\nascended the throne of Judah in the twentieth year of Jeroboam&#8217;s<br \/>\nreign. This it does do, as follows: &#8220;And in the twentieth year of<br \/>\nJeroboam, king of Israel, reigned Asa over Judah.&#8221; 1 Kings 15:9.<br \/>\nNow, if Asa lived and reigned more than two years, he lived to<br \/>\nsee the death of Jeroboam and the elevation of his successor.<br \/>\nHence, the record continues: &#8220;And Nadab, the son of Jeroboam,<br \/>\nbegan to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa, king of<br \/>\nJudah, and reigned over Israel twa years. And he did evil in the<br \/>\nsight of the Lord, and walked in the ways of his father, and in<br \/>\nthe sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>     Then follows a record of the fulfillment of the prophecy<br \/>\nconcerning the doom of Jeroboam, viz., the entire destruction of<br \/>\nhis family, at the hand of Baasha, of the house of Issachar, who<br \/>\nreigned instead of Nadab son of Jeroboam. Hence it is recorded<br \/>\nthat &#8220;In the third year of Asa, king of Judah, began Baasha, the<br \/>\nson of Ahijah, to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty-<br \/>\nand-four years. And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and<br \/>\nwalked in the ways of Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he made<br \/>\nIsrael to sin.&#8221; 1 Kings 15:33,34.<\/p>\n<p>     We have brought you down to the contemporaneous reigns of<br \/>\nAsa, the third king in Judah, and Baasha, the third king in<br \/>\nIsrael, not only to show that there need be no confusion in this<br \/>\nintermingled history, but also for another purpose, which<br \/>\nfollows. You will notice that in the last quotation, the<br \/>\nexpression &#8220;all Israel&#8221; occurs, while in the twenty-second verse<br \/>\nis the corresponding expression &#8220;all Judah.&#8221; &#8220;Then King Asa made<br \/>\na proclamation throughout all Judah.&#8221; These expressions, all<br \/>\nIsrael and all Judah, are undoubtedly used as contradistinctive<br \/>\ntitles of the two kingdoms into which the people were divided.<br \/>\nThe expression &#8220;all Israel,&#8221; as used in the above quotation, and<br \/>\nwith the same meaning in many other places in the Scriptures, has<br \/>\nconfused many students. They seem to think it means, or ought to<br \/>\nmean, all the people who are the descendants of Israel, i. e.,<br \/>\nall Israelites: whereas it simply means, in this instance, and<br \/>\nmany others, all the country occupied by the ten tribes which<br \/>\nformed the kingdom of Israel, just as the expression &#8220;all Judah,&#8221;<br \/>\nor &#8220;all Judaea&#8221;&#8211;the Greek form of the same term &#8211; is used to<br \/>\ndesignate all of the country which was given to the tribes of<br \/>\nJudah and Benjamin, they being the tribes which composed the<br \/>\nkingdom of Judah. Jerusalem, the capital of the kingdom, was<br \/>\nlocated in that portion allotted to Benjamin, and Judah&#8217;s portion<br \/>\nwas the hill country south of Jerusalem.<br \/>\n&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>To be continued<\/p>\n<p>(A classic True Israel (British Israelism) book on the Celto-Saxon people&#8217;s of God.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/watchman.news\/nl\/2021\/12\/judahs-sceptre-and-josephs-birthright-pt1\/\">download the full version of &#8220;Judah&#8217;s Sceptre and Joseph&#8217;s Birthright&#8221; &#8211; for free<\/a>)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUDAH&#8217;S SCEPTRE AND JOSEPH&#8217;S BIRTHRIGHT by Allen (1917) CHAPTER IV. JACOB&#8217;S SEED DIVIDED INTO TWO KINGDOMS. 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