Ancestry.Jesus - Manasseh

May 18, 2019

Tom and Paula Graves

Do you have black sheep in your family tree? Even Jesus has them. Manasseh is listed in the genealogy of Jesus in Matthew 1. After coming out of Egypt the nation of Israel was born. It was a unified country for many years but political conflict split the nation into the northern Kingdom of Israel and the southern Kingdom of Judah. The northern Kingdom never followed God and the country was destroyed. The southern Kingdom only partially followed God. King Hezekiah, Manasseh's father had brought religious reforms and worship of the true God back to the land. Manasseh would change all that...