Lineage Tracing Charts

Bible Ancestry Tracing Charts, Back in Time

MyHeritage screenshot of Stanford Family tree:

Stanford Family tree:

This is a screenshot of the base of the MyHeritage Stanford Family Tree.
There are over 8600 records in this family tree; I can find any name in the tree, but not any historical person not in the tree.
Lineage descends from earlier parties; ancestry tracing ascends toward earlier parties.
One can't start an ancestry trace just anywhere; one must start with the MyHeritage account owner’s record and trace back in time by successively adding parent and grandparent records.

Chart 71. RAS Paternal Ancestry to 1675:

Chart 71. RAS Paternal Ancestry to 1675:

This paternal ancestry trace was composed from several screen shots using copy-and-paste in the Windows Paint app.
This ancestry trace ends with confidence at 1675 with my 5th-great grandfather; It is possible to trace beyond my 5th-great grandfather, but with less confidence.
Very few American ancestry traces can go back beyond around 1600 unless they can access European (or other “old country”) ancestry records.
I have traced the maternal ancestry lines of many of the grandmothers in Chart 71, but none have reached European ancestors.

Chart 75. RAS Maternal Ancestry from Ruth Lucille Tapley to Robert Bruce Pollock, II.

Chart 75. RAS Maternal Ancestry from Ruth Lucille Tapley to Robert Bruce Pollock, II.

This chart is a composite of screenshots of my mother's ancestry trace to my 8th great grandfather, Scotsman Robert Bruce Pollock, II (1597-1660), 2nd Baron of Ireland.
Robert had two wives, Jean Crawford (1600-1625) whom he married in 1620, and Annabel Stewart (1565-1648) whom he married in 1830; Jean may have died in childbirth of Robert Bruce Polk III (1625-1703); Annabel became the adoptive mother of Jean's children.
The Scottish Pollocks became Polks when Robert Bruce Pollock III and wife Magdalen Tasker immigrated to the American Colonies, and the immigration official misheard the Scottish pronunciation of the name.
I have traced the maternal ancestry lines of many of the grandmothers in Chart 75, but none have reached European ancestors.

ANCESTRY TRACE PATHS TO JESUS AND BC

Chart 81. Danish and Celtic ancestry traces:

Chart 81. Danish and Celtic ancestry traces.

This chart depicts two of my maternal grandmother's ancestry traces that go back farther than 1600.
Each name in this chart represents an ancestry record or a panel in a family tree.
A number beside a name is the number of the respective great grandfather or grandmother.
The Danish-Viking ancestry trace reaches Uwald, my 54th-great grandfather.
Ragnar Sigurdson, a.k.a. “Lodbrok,” my 32-great grandfather, is the principal character in the 2013 ABC TV series "Vikings."
Hubert Fulbert William Tanner, Lord de Falaise, my 23rd-great grandfather, was chamberlain to William the Conqueror.
Fulbert (the "Saxon") de Pollock, my 21st-great grandfather, was granted a barony in Scotland by King Henry I, grandson of William the Conqueror.
Robert Bruce Pollock I, a Scotsman, was granted a barony in Ireland by King James I.
Robert Bruce Pollock III's name was changed to "Polk" when he immigrated to the American Colonies.
In the Celtic ancestry trace, Brutus of the Britans, my 70th-great grandfather, immigrated to Wales from the Dardani region north of Macedonia.
Alan Fitzflaald, my 23rd-great grandfather, immigrated to Britain from the city of Dol in Bretagne (France).
King Henry I appointed my 22nd-great grandfather, Walter FitzAlan, the 1st High Steward of Scotland.
Walter Stewart, my 20th-great grandfather, took his title ("Steward") to be his family name; the Scottish-English Stuart royal dynasty descended from Walter Stewart.
Bricius de Pollock, my 14th-great grandfather married Egidia Stewart, the "portal" through which my ancestry traces to the Celts.

Chart 7. Ancestry Lines traced to the BC Era:

Chart 7. Polk Ancestry Lines traced to the BC era.

NOTE: This ancestry trace is irrelevant because Annabel Stewart is not a daughter of James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray (1533-1570).

Few American ancestry traces get as far back as the BC era; most "dead-end" around 1600; an ancestry trace dead ends when a record does not identify either parent.
Most ancestry traces are paternal; maternal ancestry traces are no less significant.
New names are added to a trace (or tree) as "record matches" from authentic data bases, as "smart matches" from other ancestry trees, or as fabrications from private sources (e.g., family bibles, histories, etc.).
Often tracing can continue by shifting to the ancestry of a spouse; horizontal arrows (--->) indicate a marriage; up-arrows (---^) and a change of indentation indicate a marriage and/or a tracing shift to the ancestry of a spouse or partner.
Dates may not align horizontally because of differences in average age of procreation between the ancestry lines.
The traces in the first and second columns of Chart 7 reach through German or Frank ancestries to the Roman era.
The traces in the third and fourth columns of Chart 7 reach Marie bat Syrus, a.k.a. "Mary Magdalene," and thus link through Yeshua ben Yossef to the lineages of Jesus listed in Matthew 1 and Luke 3.
The trace in the fifth column reaches the Roman era through the French Vermandois dynasty.
It is entirely fortuitous that this ancestry traced in Column III reached Jesus the Younger (Yeshua ben Yeshua) who would be my 60th-great grandfather.
The Magdalene linkage from Yeshua ben Yeshua to Yossef ben Jacob's ancestry listed in Matthew 1 is tenuous since it is not attested in the Bible or referenced in early Christian church documents; the linkage is supported by tradition and ancestry records.
It is not possible for an ancestry trace to target a specific historical person; It would be possible to target a specific historical person only by fabricating a record or modifying an authentic record.

Chart 74. Ancestry tree for Jesus the Younger and Antenor Iv.

Chart 74. Ancestry tree records around those of Antenor Iv and Yeshua ben Yeshua.

On the right side of Chart 74 is the ancestry sequence to Jesus the Younger (Yeshua ben Yeshua), son of Jesus and Marie bat Syrus, a.k.a. "Mary Magdalene."
On the left side of Chart 74, ancestry records indicate that Antenor Iv married Sarah Damaris; tradition has it that she was the daughter of Marie bat Syrus, a.k.a. "Mary Magdalene."
Tradition has it that Yeshua ben Yossef married Marie bat Syrus and may have fathered children with her, but this is not attested in the Bible or other sources, and thus is uncertain.
Ancestry records identify three children of Yeshua and Maria: Sarah Damaris (born 27BC in Judea), Joses Justus ben Yeshuah (born 33BC in Gaul), and Yeshuah be Yeshuah (born 37BC in Gaul).
The birth dates of Joses Justus ben Yeshua and Yeshua ben Yeshua imply that Yeshua ben Yossef was alive after the crucifixion, i.e., that he survived the crucifixion, and that the family made their way to the Roman province of Gaul (modern France).
Both of these ancestry paths follow through Frankish dynasties, supporting the contention that the Yeshua family went to Gaul.
If the marriage records depicted in Charts 72 and 73 could be validated, these ancestry traces would link to the genealogies listed in Matthew 1 and Luke 3, and enable tracing back to the Israelite patriarchs.

Chart 90. Ancestries from RAS to Maria bat Syrus.

Chart 90. Ancestries from RAS to Maria bat Syrus (2-63AD).

This chart shows two ancestry paths traced from Richard A. Stanford (born 1943) to Maria bat Syrus (born 2 AD).
Ancestry records indicate that Robert Bruce Pollock II (1595-1640) married Jean Crawford (1600-1625) in 1620 and Annabel Stuart (1565-1640) in 1630.
Jean Crawford's death in 1625, the birth year of Robert Bruce Polk III, suggests that she died in childbirth, after which in 1630 Robert married Annabel Stewart who then became the adoptive mother of Robert Bruce Polk III (1625-1703).
Lines are skipped in this chart to keep the two paths on approximately the same date schedule and do not indicate missing data.
Froamidus de Bretagne (690-762) married Argental de Brittany (?-?); this enables ancestry tracing through Cornwall, Bretagne, and Wales; important because Joseph of Arimathea, uncle of Maria bat Heli, was a merchant who traveled to Cornwall and Wales to buy tin; by tradition Joseph facilitated Sarah Damaris' and Mary Magdalene's escape from Palestine to Gaul.
Ancestry records indicate that Pharmond von Franken (370-428), my 48th or 50th-great grandfather (depending on ancestry lines), had two sons, Fredmundus of Septimania (circa 380-?), and Chilodius V von Franken (380-448).
Genebaud I of the Sicircambrian Franks (280-358) was the father of Dagobert Ii de Franks (300-379); Dagobert married Frotmund de Frimutel (circa 300-?).
Genebaud's ancestry traces to Antenor Iv des Francs (24-67); Frotmund's ancestry traces to Yeshua ben Yeshua (37-?).
Ancestry records indicate that Antenor Iv des Francs married Sarah Damaris (27-?).
Sarah Damaris and Yeshua ben Yeshua were siblings and children of Marie bat Syrus (2-63).
Ancestry records indicate that Yeshua ben Yossef (4BC-32AD) was the husband of Marie bat Syrus and the father of Sarah Damaris and Yeshua ben Yeshua.
Ancestry records indicate that Yeshua ben Yossef was the adoptive son of Yossef ben Jacob (30BC-19AD); Yeshua ben Jacob married Myriam bat Heli (15BC-60AD).

Chart 72A. RAS (1943) to Antenor Iv des Francs (24-67).

Chart 72A. Ancestry from RAS (1943) to Antenor Iv des Francs (24AD).

This chart was derived from the left-side ancestry trace in Chart 90.
Note the significance of women (great grandmothers) to shifts of the ancestry trace.
It is entirely fortuitous that this ancestry trace reached Antenor Iv des Francs who would be my 62nd-great grandfather.
Tradition and ancestry records identify Antenor Iv's wife as Sara Damaris, the daughter of Maria bat Syrus, a.k.a. "Mary Magdalene," who ancestry records indicate was married to Yeshua ben Jacob.
The Damaris linkage through Maria bat Syrus to Yossef ben Jacob's ancestry listed in Matthew 1 is tenuous since it is not attested in the Bible or referenced in early Christian church documents; the linkage is supported by tradition and ancestry records.

THE LINEAGE OF JESUS IN MATTHEW 1

Chart 72B. RAS to Terah ben Nahor; the far-right column corresponds to the genealogy in Matthew 1.

Chart 72B. RAS to Terah ben Nahor via Sarah Damaris and Solomon ben David.

The following ancestry narrative assumes the validity of the marriage of Yeshua ben Yossef and Marie bat Syrus.
Chart 72B is an extension of Chart 72A.
The third column of Chart 72B corresponds to the genealogy listed in Matthew 1 from Yossef ben Jacob to Abraham ben Terah; it includes some generations not included in Matthew 1.
The Damaris-Magdalene linkage enables tracing my ancestry back to the Israelite Patriarchs.
The record of Jeconiah ben Jehoiakim is bold-faced because he was the last Israelite king to occupy the Throne of David.
When God directed Samuel to anoint David ben Jesse to succeed Saul as King of Israel, God promised that the House of David would reign forever, subject to the proviso that if Israel violated its covenant with God, no further members of the House of David would be kings in Israel.
Samuel explains that God made the proviso effective in 597 B.C. when the Babylonian Empire conquered Judea and sent the Israelite royalty to exile in Babylon; 50 years later when the Persian Empire overcame Babylon, King Cyrus the Great freed the exiles and some of them returned to Judea.
The descendants of Jeconiah listed in Chart 72B returned to Judea, but none of them became kings of Israel.

Strike 1: Adoption does not establish biological lineage.

Strike 2: No House of David descendants after Jeconiah occupy the throne of David.

Chart 43. Ambiguity of Solomon's paternity.

Chart 43. Ambiguity of Solomon's paternity.

Chart 43 illustrates the ambiguity of the paternity of Solomon.
David desired the beautiful Bathsheba, wife of Uriah the Hittite, and "lay with her."
When Bathsheba was found to be pregnant, David contrived to have Uriah sent to the Ammonite battle front to be killed in battle so he could marry Bathsheba, but the paternity of the expected child was uncertain.
Joel Baden, Professor of Old Testament at Yale Divinity School, says that Samuel attempted to assure the continuance of the Davidian dynasty with a "literary creation" that Bathsheba's child died after 7 days and that a second child was born after David and Bathsheba were married.
As was the mother's right, Bathsheba named the child "Solomon," meaning in English "His Replacement."
Baden argues that Bathsheba birthed only one child and that "His Replacement" referred to Uriah, not to a fictional first child.
If Baden's argument is correct, the generations listed in Chart 72B from Solomon to Yossef ben Jacob actually descended from Uriah the Hittite rather than from the House of David.
The expectation in the 1st century AD was that a messiah must have descended from the House of David.
Baden's conclusion implies that Joseph's (adopted) son Jesus was not an authentic Davidic candidate to be a Jewish messiah.

Strike 3. The ambiguity of Solomon's paternity.

Conclusion: The Matthew 1 lineage of Jesus does not authenticate Jesus to be a king of Israel or a Jewish messiah.

THE LINEAGE OF JESUS IN LUKE 3

The deceased half-brother theory:

According to Eusebius, a church historian writing during the 4th century AD, Melchi (Luke 3:24) and Matthan (Matthew 1:15) were married at different times to the same woman (tradition names her Estha). This would make Heli (Luke 3:23) and Jacob (Matthew 1:15) half-brothers. Heli then died without a son, and so his (half-)brother Jacob married Heil’s widow, who gave birth to Joseph. This would make Joseph the “son of Heli” legally and the “son of Jacob” biologically. Thus, Matthew and Luke are both recording the same genealogy (Joseph’s), but Luke follows the legal lineage while Matthew follows the biological lineage.

The nearest-male-ancestor theory:

Luke's text says that Jesus was "a son, as was supposed, of Joseph, of Eli". The qualification has traditionally been understood as acknowledgment of the virgin birth, but some instead see a parenthetical expression: "a son (as was supposed of Joseph) of Eli." In this interpretation, Jesus is called a son of Eli because Eli was his maternal grandfather, his nearest male ancestor. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genealogy_of_Jesus)

The father-in-law theory:

A variation on this idea is to explain "Joseph son of Eli" as meaning a son-in-law, perhaps even an adoptive heir to Eli through his only daughter Mary.

The Hebrew paternalism theory:

According to R. A. Torrey, the reason Mary is not implicitly mentioned by name is because the ancient Hebrews never permitted the name of a woman to enter the genealogical tables, but inserted her husband as the son of him who was, in reality, but his father-in-law. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genealogy_of_Jesus)

What the Ancestry Records reveal:

Chart 48. Ancestry from Joachim Heli ben Matthat to Nathan ben David.

Chart 48. Ancestry from Joachim Heli ben Matthat to Nathan ben David.

The mother of Jesus is identified in ancestry records as Myriam bat Heli.
This chart lists the ancestry trace from temple priest Joachim Heli ben Matthat, the father of Mary (Myriam bat Heli), to Nathan ben David, the third son of David and Bathsheba.
This ancestry trace, corresponding to the genealogy listed in Luke 3 which indicates that Jesus was "thought to be the son of Heli," authenticates Yeshua's candidacy to be a Jewish messiah descended from the House of David.
If Luke was looking for the Joseph who was reputed to be the father of Jesus, it appears that he may have chosen the wrong Joseph upon which to base the lineage: Joseph ben Matthat (a.k.a. Joseph of Arimathea).
Joseph ben Matthat, a tin merchant who traveled to Wales to import tin to Judea, was Mary’s uncle (not Jesus’ father); he was a brother of temple priest Joachim Heli ben Matthat, the father of Mary.
Temple priest Zachariah ben Matthat, another brother of Joachim Heli ben Matthat, was the father of Joanan ben Zachariah, a.k.a. "John the Baptist."
Zachariah's wife, Elisabeth bat Sobe, was the aunt who Mary visited before Joanan was born.
John was the first cousin of Jesus, one generation removed.
There may be an ancestral contradiction here because both Joachim and Zachariah are identified as temple priests, most of whom descended from the tribe of Levi, but their ancestry traces to Nathan ben David of the Judah tribe.

Chart 72C. Ancestry from Richard A. Stanford (1943) to Terah ben Nahor (ca 2065) via Solomon ben David and Nathan ben David.

Chart 72C. Ancestry from RAS (1943) to Terah ben Nahor (2065BC) via Nathan ben David.

This chart extends Chart 72B.
The maternal ancestry trace from Myriam bat Heli through Nathan ben David to David ben Jesse and on to Abraham ben Terah has been added in the far-right (4th) column.
In the Nathan trace path, David ben Jesse is my 103rd-great grandfather; in the Solomon trace path illustrated in Chart 72B, David ben Jesse is my 94th-great grandfather.
This implies that the Nathan path took 9 more generations to reach David than it took in the Solomon path; it also implies that the average age of first procreation in the Nathan path was lower than in the Solomon path.
The Nathan trace path avoids the ambiguity of Solomon’s paternity.

Luke 3 Lineage Conclusions:

1. The Luke 3 genealogy avoids the ambiguity of Solomon's paternity.

2. The Luke 3 genealogy traces the ancestry of Jesus' mother Mary to David ben Jesse through his son Nathan ben David.

3. The Luke 3 genealogy authenticates Jesus to be a Jewish messiah (and a king of Israel?).

Or does it?

WHO WERE THE MOTHER AND FATHER OF JESUS?

The Gospels Story: Mary, a peasant girl was Jesus' mother; Joseph, a carpenter, was Jesus' (adoptive) father.

Joseph Raymond's Alternate theory: Hasmonean and Herodian royals.

Joseph Raymond is a lawyer who has meticulously studied ancient sources and documents pertaining to the ancestries of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.

Raymond was raised in a devout Roman Catholic family in St. Louis, Missouri, and educated in Catholic schools. He received degrees from two Jesuit universities, graduating with a law degree in 1986. Thereafter, he served as a Department of Justice lawyer in Washington, D.C., but left the practice of law to found an internet company. In 1988, he began a spiritual journey of study and reflection largely focused upon the origins of Christianity. (From the Amazon "About the Author" of Raymond's book entitled Herodian Messiah: Case For Jesus As Grandson of Herod, Tower Grove Publishing, 2010.)

Raymond's thesis in his book Herodian Messiah: Case For Jesus As Grandson of Herod is the basis for the following theory about Hasmonean and Herodian royals.

Chart 44. Hasmonean dynasty.

Chart 44. The Hasmonean Dynasty.

In 142 BC, Hasmonean brothers Judas and Simon Maccabeus led a Jewish revolt against the Seleucid overlords of Israel.
Judas was killed in battle, but Simon's forces achieved independence and he ruled as high priest and ethnarch of Judea.
A Hasmonean dynasty was established as Simon was succeeded by Hasmonean priest-kings over the course of nearly a century as depicted in Chart 44.
Joseph Raymond argues that the last Hasmonean king, Antigonus Mattathias, was the actual father of Myriam, the mother of Yeshua.
Since Hasmoneans descended from the tribe of Levi, Raymond argues that Yeshua’s Levite heritage qualified him to be an authentic Jewish messiah, even if he did not descend from the House of David.

Chart 46. The Mother of Jesus, Myriam bat Antigonus or Myriam bat Heli?

Chart 46. The Mother of Jesus, Myriam bat Antigonus or Myriam bat Heli?

Joseph Raymond, a lawyer writing as if preparing a legal brief, makes a case that Myriam actually was the daughter of Hasmonean king Antigonus Mattathias who descended from the tribe of Levi.
When Rome appointed Herod to be its client king of Judea, Herod had all high Hasmoneans executed, but some lower-level Hasmoneans escaped the massacre.
Raymond says that Antigonus' young daughter, Myriam bat Antigonus, was rescued from the palace and adopted by Joachim Heli Ben Matthat; her adopted name became Myriam bat Heli.

Chart 45. Yeshua the son of Antipater and Myriam (Joseph Raymond, Herodian Messiah: Case for Jesus as Grandson of Herod)

Chart 45. Raymond's theory: Yeshua the son of Antipater and Myriam.

Herod’s son, Prince Antipater, married Hasmonean Princess Myriam bat Heli (nee Myriam bat Antigonus).
Myriam became pregnant, but Herod had son Antipater executed on the suspicion that Antipater and his mother Doris were conspiring to poison Herod.
Temple priest Joachim Heli ben Matthat helped Myriam to escape assassination at Herod's palace and negotiated a betrothal contract with an unmarried temple priest named Yossef ben Jacob.
When the baby was born, he became the adopted son of Yossef ben Jacob and was named Yeshua ben Yossef.
If Raymond's theory is right, then Yeshua was the son of Antipater and Myriam, and the grandson of two kings, Herod (an Edomite) and Antigonus (a Levite).
This implies that Jesus was mortal rather than divine.

Chart 47. Sons of Herod the Great.

Chart 47. Sons of Herod the Great.

Chart 47 depicts four of Herod the Great's seven wives and their sons.
Caesar Augustus required that a census be taken of the entire Roman Empire; all adult males were required to go to their ancestral homes to register for the census.
As Yossef was a descendant of David, he and Myriam went to Bethlehem, the town of David, to register for the census of the Roman world that was mandated by Caesar Augustus.
While they were in Bethlehem, Myriam delivered a male child whom they named Yeshua ben Yossef.
After Herod's death, sons Herod Antipas and Herod Archelaus sailed to Rome to adjudicate Herod's will, leaving the kingdom in the hands of brother Herod Philip.
Herod Philip suspected that half-brother Antipater's pregnant wife had delivered a child in Bethlehem, so he decreed that all male children in the vicinity of Bethlehem be killed.
Yossef, Myriam, and baby Yeshua fled to Egypt until the danger passed.
Caesar divided the kingdom among Herod's sons and a daughter: Herod Philip was appointed the tetrarch of Jordan, Herod Antipas the tetrarch of Galilee, and Herod Archelaus the ethnarch of Judea, Samaria, and Idumea.
Herod Antipas is the Herodian king who had John the Baptist beheaded.

Royal Story Conclusions:

1. Jesus was the son of Antipater ben Herod, an Edomite, and Myriam bat Antigonus, a Levite.

2. Raymond argues that Jesus' Levite ancestry qualified him to be a Jewish messiah, even if he was not descended from the House of David.

3. Jesus was the grandson of King Herod the Great, an Edomite (not an Israelite), and King Antigonus Mattathias, a Levite.

4. Jesus' descent from Herod the Great qualified him to become a Judean king.

5. Jesus' descent from King Antigonus Mattathias qualified him to become an Israelite king, i.e., a "King of the Jews."

BACK IN TIME FROM DAVID TO NAHOR

Chart 55. Ancestry from David ben Jesse to Boaz ben Salmon.

This chart illustrates that Boaz ben Salmon was the great grandfather of David ben Jesse.
This chart identifies David's great grandmother as Ruth, a Moabite.

Chart 56. Ancestry from Boaz ben Salmon to Judah ben Jacob.

Chart 56. Ancestry from Boaz ben Salmon to Judah ben Jacob.

This chart illustrates the ancestry trace back in time from Boaz to Judah, one of patriarch Jacob's sons.
The chart identifies Judah as Boaz's 6th-great grandfather.
The Genesis account of the story about Boaz and Ruth indicates only that Elimelech, the husband of Naomi, was a relative of Boaz; ancestry records identify Elimelech ben Amminidab as the brother of Nahshon ben Amminidab, Boaz's grandfather.
Elimelech and Naomi had two sons, Mahlon and Chilion, whose wives were named Orpah and Ruth; Ruth was a Moabite.
Elimelech, Mahlon, and Chilion died, leaving Naomi with daughter-in-law Ruth who adopted Naomi's god.
Naomi and Ruth were destitute and gleaned leavings on the margins of Boaz's fields after his workers had harvested the grain.
Ruth, still a beautiful young woman, appealed to Boaz, her nephew by marriage, to exercise his familial right to marry her, which he did, thus preserving Elimelech's legacy.
Torah law permitted an Israelite to marry a Moabite woman who converted to Judaism.

Chart 63. Ancestry from Jacob ben Isaac to Terah ben Nahor.

Chart 63. Descendants of Terah ben Nahor.

This chart depicts Terah ben Nahor's family tree.
Terah had two sons, Haran and Abram who God renamed Abraham.
Haran had a daughter, Sarah bat Haran, and a son, Lot ben Haran.
Abraham married his niece, Sarah bat Haran, who was his brother's daughter.
Abraham and Sarah had one son, Isaac who married Rebekah bat Ethuel.
Isaac and Rebekah had two sons, Esau and Jacob; Jacob was renamed "Israel" by God.
Esau's descendants settled in Edom and became known as Edomites or Idumeans.
Jacob's twelve sons became the patriarchs of the twelve tribes of Israel who settled in Canaan after the Exodus from Egypt and wandering for 40 years in the wilderness.
Haran's son Lot was a righteous man who lived in Sodom with his family.
Angels told Lot to flee with his family and not look back because God had directed the angels to destroy the wicked cities, Sodom and Gomorrah.
Lot's wife (not named) looked back and was turned into a pillar of salt; Lot and two daughters (not named) escaped to the mountains above Sodom.
Because all of the men of Sodom and Gomorrah had been killed, in order to have children the two daughters conspired to get their father drunk on wine and have intercourse with him while he slept; both daughters became pregnant and delivered male children.
One daughter named her son Moab whose descendants became known as Moabites.
The other daughter named her son ben-Ammi whose descendants became known as Ammonites.
Lot's ancestry record appears three times in Chart 63 because he was both father and grandfather of Moab and ben-Ammi.

Map of Palestine:

Map of Palestine:

This map shows how the tribes coalesced into two "kingdoms," the northern kingdom known as Israel and the southern kingdom known as Judah.
This map identifies the regions settled by the non-Israelite tribes of the Edomites, the Moabites, the Ammonites, the Midianites, and the Arabians.

Charts 61 and 62. Jacob's sons.

Charts 61 and 62. Jacob's sons.

Jacob had two wives, Leah and Rachel, both daughters of Laban ben Bethuel.
Jacob worked seven years for Laban in order to marry Rachel, but Laban insisted that he first marry Leah, his older daughter, and then work seven more years to marry younger sister Rachel.
Leah had six sons as illustrated in Chart 61.
Leah's handmaid Zilpah had two sons as illustrated in Chart 62.
Rachel had two sons as illustrated in Chart 62.
Rachel's handmaid Bilhah had two sons as illustrated in Chart 62.
Rachel's son Joseph was sold by his brothers into Egyptian slavery but became a high official in Egypt who saved Jacob and his brothers from starvation during a famine in Israel.
Jacob's twelve sons became patriarchs of the twelve tribes of Israel.

Map of Israelite Tribe Settlement:

Map of Israelite Tribe Settlement:

This map depicts the regions of Palestine in which descendants of ten of the twelve sons of Jacob were apportioned lands.
The Levite tribe was apportioned no land because the Levites were to serve as priests to all of the tribes and be supported by the other tribes.
Joseph, the high official of Egypt, was apportioned no land, but Jacob insisted that Joseph's two sons, Manassah and Ephraim, be apportioned lands as if sons of Jacob.

Chart 53. Descendants of Levi.

Chart 53. Descendants of Levi.

Levi was the 5th son of Jacob and Leah.
God appointed the descendants of Levi to serve priestly functions for the other tribes of Israel, and thus the Levites were not apportioned any lands in Canaan.
Levi had one son, Kohath ben Levi, and one daughter, Jochebed bint Levi.
Kohath had one son named Amram ben Kohath who married his aunt, Jochebed bint Levi.
Amram and Jochebed had three children, Aaron, Myriam, and Moses.
Myriam watched over her baby brother Moses as he floated in a basket on the River Nile to be discovered and adopted by Pharaoh's daughter.
God appointed Aaron the first high priest of Israel in spite of his having overseen the casting of a golden calf for Israelites to worship while Moses was conferring with God on the mountain.
Moses became the great "law-giver" of Israel who led the Israelites out of Egypt to wander for 40 years in the wilderness of Sinai and the Arabian desert before entering and conquering Canaan from the east.
Aaron became "mouthpiece" to Moses who lacked confidence as a speaker; Aaron and Myriam acted as Moses' counselors during the wilderness wandering.

THE BIG PICTURE

Chart 41 Left. The Big Picture left.

Chart 41 Right. The Big Picture right.

Charts 41 Left and 41 Right. The Big Picture.

These charts are the left and right sides of a composite family tree showing the ancestries of Yeshua and Myriam.
The following comments refer to the undivided Chart 41.
The first ancestry sequence is that of Myriam bat Heli back to Nathan, the third son of David and Bathsheba; it corresponds with the reputed lineage of Jesus in Luke 3.
The second (from left) ancestry sequence is that of Yossef ben Jacob back to David ben Jesse; it corresponds to the lineage of Jesus listed in Matthew 1.
The third (from left) ancestry sequence is that of the Hasmonean dynasty upon which Joseph Raymond bases his theory that Myriam bat Heli actually was the daughter of Hasmonean king Antigonous Mattathias, but that she was adopted by Jeconiah Heli ben Matthat.
The fourth (from left) ancestry sequence is that of the Herodian dynasty upon which Joseph Raymond bases his theory that Herod the Great was a grandfather of Jesus.
If Joseph Raymond's theories are right, then Jesus was the mortal grandson of two kings, Herod the Great and Antigonus Mattathias.

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