What was needed to bypass the blood curse of Jeconiah? Give three Old Testament references where we find the solution to this problem. 512 - 2 - 3

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.”

One of the many patterns In the Bible is the Scarlet Thread that starts in Genesis with the seed of the woman. Genesis 3:15 “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”

King Jeconiah, a descendant of King David through Solomon promoted idol worship incurring the disfavor of our righteous God. So God pronounced a blood curse on the line of Jeconiah, saying that none of his descendants would ever sit on the throne of David. This meant that no Messiah could come from a male in the line of David as there was now a blood curse pronounced on the only males left in the direct royal line.

It is always amazing how God sets in motion an event that will have great important at a later date. Centuries before the blood curse was pronounced we read of the daughters of Zelophehad. These sisters had no brother for their father to leave his goods and property to. So they petitioned Moses Numbers 27: 4, “Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father.” Moses took their petition before the Lord. And the Lord said, Numbers 27: 8, “And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter.” When the daughter married her father would adopt his son-in-law as his son.

This Levirate marriage was codified in Deuteronomy 25:5-6, “If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her. And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.”

Thus God solved the future problem of the blood curse on Jeconiah. Jesus’ mother Mary had no brother so her father could adopt her husband Joseph, the legal father of Jesus. Joseph was in the line of King David but was tainted by the blood curse. Mary was in the line of King David through his son Nathan. Mary was the biological mother of Jesus born of her “seed” as predicted thousands of years before in the Garden of Eden.