Question

Why did neel realise from his encounter with his ancestor

Answer 1

You probably know that Jesus was said to be of the line of David, who was the greatest Jewish king. But I was thinking about this the other day and it occurred to me that David’s son and successor King Solomonwas said to have had 700wives and 300 concubines (or definitely had 700 wives and 300 concubines, for those who believe in the inerrancy of the Bible). So actually there were probably thousands upon thousands of people in first century Palestine who could quite correctly claim David as an ancestor (possibly almost everyone Jewish could).Scholars put Solomon’s reign from circa 970 to 931 BC, so if we take 950years for simplicities sake. And assume a generation is 25 years (This is probably generous: virtually all Jewish men at that time were married before theywere 21 and girls usually at around 15). And assume that each personhas 3 children (again thisis a rough but cautious guess: families were typically large – having many children was seen as a sacred duty – but infant mortality was very high, so if you assume 3 children reaching adulthood then that is probably the conservative end of the spectrum, and may balance for those who died childless). Population was expanding in spite of disease and war, so 3 is the minimum whole number to consistently be doing so, but I’m hoping you can improve on my guesswork.