John 7:42

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?

Not

Luke 2:4

Where

1 Samuel 16:1

1 Samuel 17:58

General references

Luke 12:52

John 10:19

Bible References

Not

Yet we know where this man is from, but the Christ, whenever he comes--no one knows where he is from!"

Yahweh swore [in] truth to David; he will not turn back from it. "One from the fruit of your {body} I will set on your throne.

And a shoot will come out from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from its roots will bear fruit.

"Look, days [are] coming," {declares} Yahweh, "when I will raise up for David a righteous branch, and he will reign [as] king, and he will achieve success, and he will do justice and righteousness in the land.

But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, [too] small to be among the clans of Judah, from you one will go out for me, to be ruler in Israel; and his origins [are] from of old, from ancient days.

So they said to him, "In Bethlehem of Judea, for thus it is written by the prophet,

So Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family line of David,

Where

Then Yahweh said to Samuel, "{How long} will you mourn about Saul? I have rejected him from being king over Israel! Fill up your horn [with] oil and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have chosen a king for myself among his sons."

Then Saul said to him, "Whose son are you, young man?" And David said, "[I am] the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite."

General references

For from now on there will be five in one household, divided three against two and two against three.

Again there was a division among the Jews because of these words.