How can a Jewish scholar reconcile Jeremiah 22:30? 512 - 1- 2

Jeremiah 22:30, “Thus saith the Lord, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.”

So how can a Jewish scholar reconcile Jeremiah 22:30? By recognizing that the Messiah would be the seed of the woman. The Jews wanted another conquering King such as David as their Messiah and could not conceive that he would come as a suffering servant. Had they thought through Isaiah 61:1-2, perhaps they would have recognized that the Messiah would fulfill both roles; as a suffering servant and in the later days as a conquering king.
In Moses’ time the precedence had been established that a father who had no son could adopt his son-in-law as his heir. Such was the case with Mary and Joseph, both from the line of David. Joseph descended from King David’s son Solomon thereby incurring the blood curse disqualifying his seed from sitting on the throne of David. However, Joseph would be the legal father of Jesus. Mary descended from King David’s son Nathan and was free of the blood curse as would be her seed, Jesus.

In 7 AD Caesar Augustus appointed Caponius Procurator who in turn removed judicial authority from Judea. The scepter refers to tribal identity and self-determination when applying capital punishment, jus gladii, “The right of the sword.” So the temple priests cried that God broke His word in Genesis 49:10; that the scepter had departed Judah. Genesis 49:10, “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.”


Had the Sanhedrin had really believed the prophecies they would have known that Shiloh had come and was a child living in Israel in 7 AD. Prophecies such as that brought by the angel Gabriel to Daniel, a prophecy detailing when the Messiah would enter Jerusalem. By counting the years from the rebuilding of the walls of the city until the entrance it should have been obvious that the Messiah was alive in 7 AD.