So I’m finishing up Genesis right now and something struck me as a little strange. Jacob/Israel made Joseph’s son his heir and Judah was not. But from Judah’s tribe comes David, and a long time later Jesus. But Judah wasn’t the heir? Am I reading too much into this? lol but if there is a reason that someone could explain I’d be thankful.
Question abt Jacob’s lineage
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You are misreading the passage (or perhaps missed this).
GENESIS 49: THE SCEPTRE SHALL NOT DEPART FROM JUDAH
8 Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee.
9 Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
"Shiloh" is another name for the Lord Jesus Christ. It means "he whose it is, that which belongs to him". The sceptre represents royalty, and Christ came from the royal line of David.
GENESIS 49: THE SCEPTRE SHALL NOT DEPART FROM JUDAH
8 Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee.
9 Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
"Shiloh" is another name for the Lord Jesus Christ. It means "he whose it is, that which belongs to him". The sceptre represents royalty, and Christ came from the royal line of David.