Hello to anyone curious,
If you read the book of Joshua, you will see all the land that was given to the 12 tribes of the nation of Israel. Levites did not receive any land, still they were all part of the nation which God has chosen in which the messiah would come from the line of David.
You have two genealogy’s mentioned about the birth of Jesus, if your curious to look, found in Matthew and Luke? I think.
In the end God divorced the nation of Israel when judgement day came down upon them in which the main headquarters of Jerusalem was burnt down by fire. It was during Passover and 1.2 million Jews had died, some seeing the return of Lord for full on faith, some were taken captive by the Romans, those who has not faith where basically destroyed because of the bloodshed caused during the war. The wrath of God was poured out in them for killing the Son of God.
The lost all of everything including their genealogy, there is no more tribes today. There is only the heavenly Jerusalem above, which we become apart of by faith in the Son of God, who was risen again by God.
You've kind of missed certain points in those Scriptures.
1. Christ has only ONE genealogy in The Gospels, and it is Mary's in the Gospel of Luke. The genealogy in Matthew is actually that of Joseph, the husband of Mary. Jesus was conceived by The Holy Spirit, not by Joseph. A comparison of the two genealogies reveals different lineages from Solomon. Jesus' bloodline lineage came from Solomon's son Nathan, representing the legal line. Joseph's came from Solomon's son Rehoboam, and represents the royal line. Joseph's lineage by law, was
assigned to Jesus, since the Hebrew custom was the lineage is kept through the male side.
2. It was the northern ten tribe "house of Israel" which God said He gave a bill of divorce to, not the "house of Judah" (Jews).
One must be very careful in understanding the context flow there, because by the time of that prophecy in Jeremiah 3, because the northern ten tribe "kingdom of Israel" had already been scattered, and now God was pointing to that scattering as an example to the "house of Judah" with His getting ready to send Nebuchadnezzar upon them (the Jews), and destroy their kingdom too (i.e,. their "kingdom of Judah" in the south at Jerusalem-Judea.
Jer 3:6-11
6 The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, "Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.
7 And I said after she had done all these things, 'Turn thou unto Me.' But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
9 And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
10 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto Me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.
11 And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
KJV
In the above, we see God labeling two sisters, one as Israel and the other as Judah.
This is because back in Rehoboam's day (1 Kings 11 forward), God split old Israel into two separate kingdoms. The southern "kingdom of Judah" at Jerusalem-Judea with 3 tribes, and the northern "kingdom of Israel" at Samaria in the northern lands with 10 tribes. Israel meant ONLY the northern ten tribes here. She had already played the harlot in false worship against God, and He gave the ten tribes a "bill of divorce", and scattered them out of the land by the hands of the kings of Assyria. Now, in Jeremiah's day, it was the Judah kingdom's turn, because she also fell away to false worship like the ten tribes did.
BIBLE DISTINCTIONS AFTER GOD SPLIT OLD ISRAEL:
AFTER the split of old Israel into two separate kingdoms per 1 Kings 11 & 12 forward, names like "Israel" and "Judah" became specific to only one of the two separate kingdoms.
Therefore, at the days of Rehoboam (king of Judah) and Jeroboam (king of Israel), the labels "Israel", "Samaria", "Ephraim", "Joseph", "house of Israel", "kingdom of Israel", all pointed ONLY to the northern kingdom of Israel of the ten tribes.
And the labels "Judah", "Jerusalem", "Jews", "house of Judah", "kingdom of Judah", ONLY pointed to the 3 tribe kingdom of Judah in the south at Jerusalem-Judea.
GOD METAPHORICALLY DIVORCED the northern ten-tribe "kingdom of Israel" by scattering them captive to Assyria and the lands of the Medes, never to return as a people (2 Kings 17). That was how that "bill of divorce" metaphor was meant.