The ships of Tarshish

When we read about the 'ships of Tarshish' we wonder what these ships mean in scripture and their spiritual significance but when we look at the historical evidence with a spiritual vs spiritual comparison we see the whole picture of how it relates to bringing in the sons of Yasharal back to the fold and when Aluahym's purpose is accomplished how these same ships of Tarshish has the Babylonian influence to bring along the souls of men who are slaves and captive to her rule. Let's begin with the historical evidence from scriptures.

1Kings 10:22 For the king (Solomon) had at sea the ships of Tarshish with the ships of Hiram; once in three years the ships of Tarshish came bringing gold and silver, ivory and apes and peacocks. 

Hiram was the king of Tyre/Tsur

2Sa 5:11 ¶ And Hiram king of Tyre/Tsur sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons: and they built David an house.

1Kings 5:1 Now Hiram king of Tyre/Tsur sent his servants to Shelomoh/Solomon, when he heard that they had anointed him king in place of his father, for Hiram was a lover of David all his days. 
2 Then Sh’lomoh sent word to Hiram, saying, 
3 You know that David my father could not build a house for the name of Yahuah his El because of the wars which surrounded him, until Yahuah put them under the soles of his feet
4 But now Yahuah my El has given me rest all around; there is neither adversary nor evil happening. 
5 Behold, I intend to build a house for the name of Yahuah my El, as Yahuah spoke to David my father, saying, Your son, whom I shall set on your throne in your place, he shall build the house for My name.  
6 Now therefore, command that they cut for me cedars from Lebanon, and my servants shall be with your servants; and I shall give you wages for your servants according to all that you say, for you know that there is no one among us who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians/Tsadanyam.
7 And it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words of Sh’lomoh, he rejoiced greatly and said, Blessed be Yahuah today, who has given to David a wise son over this great people.
8 So Hiram sent word to Sh’lomoh, saying, I have heard that which you have sent to me; I shall do what you desire concerning timber of cedar and concerning timber of fir
9 My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon to the sea; and I shall make them into rafts/dabarah H1702 to go by sea to the place where you direct me, and I shall have them broken up there, and you shall carry them away. Then you shall accomplish my desire by giving food to my household.
10 So Hiram was giving to Sh’lomoh the cedar trees and fir trees all his desire.
11 Sh’lomoh then gave Hiram twenty thousand kors of wheat as food for his household, and twenty kors of beaten oil; thus Sh’lomoh would give Hiram year by year.
12 Yahuah gave wisdom to Sh’lomoh, just as He promised him; and there was peace between Hiram and Sh’lomoh, and the two of them made a covenant.   
13 Now King Sh’lomoh raised a labor force out of all Yisrael; and the forced labor was thirty thousand men.
14 He sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses; they were in Lebanon a month and two months at their own house. And Adoniram/Adonayram was over the forced labor 

We see how Hiram/Chayram (chay: life & ram: anything that is high or lifted up which is deceitful) who loved Daud all his life making a treaty with Daud's son Shelomoh/Solomon by sending the cedars of Lebanon down unto him from the sea in rafts to help him build the house of Yahuah. The Abary word 'dabarah' which is translated as floats/rafts has the root word 'dabar' which means 'word/speak'. While there is so much to look at like 'cedars of Lebanon', 'king of Tyre/Tsur', 'Tyre/Tsur & Tsadan/Sidon' etc which we will look at later, let's for now continue to look at the historical evidence of the transformation of these rafts/dabarah to the ships of Tarshish. Moreover Shelomoh raised forced labor to bring in these cedars of Lebanon and sent them one month to Lebanon and two months they stayed at their own house and Adonayram was over the forced labor. The name Adonayram comes from two root words Adonay which means 'Master' and 'ram' which means 'anything that is high or lifted up which is deceitful'. The picture is of a 'Master who is lifted up in deceit' just as the same root word 'ram' is in 'Chayram/Hiram' which means 'Life which is lifted up high which is deceitful'

2Ch 2:3  And Shelomoh sent to Ḥuram/Churam sovereign of Tsor, saying, “As you did for my father Dawiḏ, and sent him cedars to build himself a house to dwell in –

In 2 Chri 2:3 his name is called Churam/Huram which means whiteness with a root word 'chur' H2353 and also the word 'Chu' is the root word in Chauah/Eve which means 'life'. 'Ram' means 'lifted up'

Charam: Someone or something captured for dedication or destruction. [freq. 38] |kjv: net, accursed, curse, devoted, destruction, dedicated, destroyed| {str: 2764} 

Adonayram was one of the princes who was over this forced labor

1Ki4:1 Now King Sh’lomoh was king over all Yisrael.
1Ki 4:2 These were the princes which he had: Azariah the son of Zadok was the priest; .....  
1Ki4:6 and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the forced labor.  

Shelomoh turned away from Yahuah and worshiped other gads and goddesses which his pagan wives lured him to and Yahuah raised up adversaries for him and out of this one adversary rose taking an occasion of this forced labor which Shelomoh's son Rehaboam said he would double caused the division of the kingdom of Daud into 2, 10 tribes to be with Yaraboam the Ephrathite and 2 tribes Benyamin/Benjamin and Yahudah/Judah to be with Rehaboam (house of Daud)

1Ki 11:26  And a servant of Shelomoh, Yaroḇʽam son of Neḇat, an Ephrayimite from Tserĕḏah, whose mother’s name was Tseruʽah, a widow, also lifted up a hand against the sovereign. 
1Ki 11:27  And this is what caused him to lift up a hand against the sovereign: Shelomoh had built Millo, repairing the breaks in the City of Dawiḏ his father. 
1Ki 11:28  And the man Yaroḇʽam was a brave man. And Shelomoh, seeing that the young man was doing his work well, made him the officer over all the compulsory labour of the house of Yosĕph. 
1Ki 11:29  And it came to be at that time, when Yaroḇʽam went out of Yerushalayim, that the prophet Aḥiyah the Shilonite met him on the way. And he was wearing a new garment, and the two were alone in the field. 
1Ki 11:30  And Aḥiyah took hold of the new garment that was on him, and tore it into twelve pieces, 
1Ki 11:31  and said to Yaroḇʽam, “Take for yourself ten pieces, for thus said יהוה, the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, ‘See, I am tearing the reign out of the hand of Shelomoh and shall give ten tribes to you, 
1Ki 11:32  but he shall have one tribe for the sake of My servant Dawiḏ, and for the sake of Yerushalayim, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Yisra’ĕl. 

1Ki 11:34  ‘But I do not take all the reign out of his hand, because I have made him ruler all the days of his life for the sake of My servant Dawiḏ, whom I chose because he guarded My commands and My laws. 
1Ki 11:35  ‘And I shall take the reign out of his son’s hand and give it to you, the ten tribes. 
1Ki 11:36  ‘And to his son I give one tribe, so that My servant Dawiḏ shall always have a lamp before Me in Yerushalayim, the city which I have chosen for Myself, to put My Name there. 

1Ki 11:39  ‘And because of this I humble the seed of Dawiḏ, but not forever.’ ” 
1Ki 11:40  And Shelomoh sought to kill Yaroḇʽam, but Yaroḇʽam rose up and fled to Mitsrayim, to Shishaq sovereign of Mitsrayim, and was in Mitsrayim until the death of Shelomoh. 

1Ki 12:2  And it came to be, when Yaroḇʽam son of Neḇat heard this – he was still in Mitsrayim, for he had fled from the presence of Sovereign Shelomoh and had been dwelling in Mitsrayim – 
1Ki 12:3  that they sent and called him. And Yaroḇʽam and all the assembly of Yisra’ĕl came and spoke to Reḥaḇʽam, saying, 
1Ki 12:4  “Your father made our yoke hard, and now, lighten the hard service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, then we serve you.” 
1Ki 12:5  And he said to them, “Go away for three days, then come back to me.” And the people went. 
1Ki 12:6  Then Sovereign Reḥaḇʽam consulted the elders who stood before his father Shelomoh while he still lived, and he said, “What do you advise me to answer these people?” 
1Ki 12:7  And they spoke to him, saying, “If you are a servant to these people today, and shall serve them, and shall answer them and speak good words to them, then they shall be your servants all the days.” 
1Ki 12:8  But he ignored the advice the elders gave him, and consulted the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him. 
1Ki 12:9  And he said to them, “What advice do you give? How should we answer this people who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Lighten the yoke which your father put on us’?” 
1Ki 12:10  And the young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, “Say this to this people who have spoken to you, saying, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you make it lighter on us.’ Say this to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist! 
1Ki 12:11  ‘And now, my father laid a heavy yoke on you, but I add to your yoke; my father flogged you with whips, but I, I flog you with scourges!’ ” 
1Ki 12:12  So Yaroḇʽam and all the people came to Reḥaḇʽam the third day, as the sovereign had spoken, saying, “Come back to me the third day.” 
1Ki 12:13  But the sovereign answered the people harshly, and ignored the advice which the elders had given him, 
1Ki 12:14  and he spoke to them according to the advice of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I add to your yoke; my father flogged you with whips, but I, I flog you with scourges!” 
1Ki 12:15  So the sovereign did not listen to the people, for the turn of events was from יהוה, in order to establish His word, which יהוה had spoken by Aḥiyah the Shilonite to Yaroḇʽam son of Neḇat. 
1Ki 12:16  And all Yisra’ĕl saw that the sovereign did not listen to them. Then the people answered the sovereign, saying, “What portion do we have in Dawiḏ? And there is no inheritance in the son of Yishai. To your mighty ones, O Yisra’ĕl! Now, see to your own house, O Dawiḏ!” So Yisra’ĕl went to their tents. 
1Ki 12:17  But as for the children of Yisra’ĕl who dwelt in the cities of Yehuḏah, Reḥaḇʽam reigned over them. 
1Ki 12:18  And when Sovereign Reḥaḇʽam sent Aḏoram/Adonayram, who was over the compulsory labour, all Yisra’ĕl stoned him with stones, and he died. And Sovereign Reḥaḇʽam hastily mounted his chariot to flee to Yerushalayim. 
1Ki 12:19  Thus Yisra’ĕl revolted against the house of Dawiḏ to this day. 

The Adonayram who was over the forced labor was stoned by Yasharal unto death. Here in 1 Kings 12:18 his name is mentioned as Adaram which has root words 'ad' which means 'mist/vapor' and 'ram' which means 'high and lifted up in deceit'.

Now with this background let's go back to Hiram's and Shelomoh's joint venture in the ships of Tarshish built by Shelomoh in the land of Edom

1Ki 10:22 For the king had at sea the ships of Tarshish with the ships of Hiram; once in three years the ships of Tarshish came bringing gold and silver, ivory and apes and peacocks. 

1Ki 9:26 And King Sh’lomoh made a navy of ships in Etsyon-Geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom. 
1Ki 9:27 And Hiram sent his servants in the navy, shipmen who knew the sea, along with the servants of Sh’lomoh. 

Deu 2:8  “And when we passed beyond our brothers, the descendants of Ěsaw who dwell in Sĕʽir, through the way of the desert plain,from Ěylath and Etsyon Geḇer, we turned and passed over by way of the Wilderness of Mo’aḇ. 

That's the evidence of the ships of Tarshish being in Etsyon-Geber in the land of Edom bringing in gold, silver, ivory, apes and peacocks.

Yahuah later destroyed these ships of Tarshish which Yahushapat sent these ships to go to Ophir for gold because he associated with AhazYahu son of Ahab.

1Ki 22:47  And there was then no sovereign in Eḏom, a deputy was sovereign. 
1Ki 22:48  Yehoshaphat made Tarshish ships to go to Ophir for gold. However, they did not go, for the ships were wrecked at Etsyon Geḇer. 
1Ki 22:49  Then Aḥazyahu son of Aḥaḇ said to Yehoshaphat, “Let my servants go with your servants in the ships.” But Yehoshaphat would not. 

2Ch 20:35  And after this Yehoshaphat sovereign of Yehuḏah joined himself with Aḥazyah sovereign of Yisra’ĕl. He did wrong in doing so. 
2Ch 20:36  And he joined himself with him to make/asah H6213 ships to go to Tarshish, and they maintained/asah H6213 the ships in Etsyon Geḇer. 
2Ch 20:37  Then Eliʽezer son of Doḏawahu of Marĕshah prophesied against Yehoshaphat, saying, “Because you have joined yourself with Aḥazyahu, יהוה shall break up your work.” And the ships were wrecked, so that they were unable to go to Tarshish. 

There is a mistranslation of the word 'asah' H6213 which is translated as 'made' in the second part of the verse giving the reader an implication that it was Yahushapat who made these ships in Etsyon Geber whereas they were made by king Shelomoh and were only maintained/asah in Etsyon Geber. The word asah also means to maintain. 

Yahushapat was a righteous king and his association with Ahazyah the son of Ahab was unrighteous because of which Yahuah destroyed these ships of Tarshish at Etsyon Geber and their tradition of getting gold from Ophir was broken

2Ch 8:17  Then Shelomoh went to Etsyon Geḇer H6100 and Ěyloth H359 on the seacoast, in the land of Eḏom. 
2Ch 8:18  And Ḥuram sent him ships by the hand of his servants, and servants who knew the sea. And they went with the servants of Shelomoh to Ophir, and took four hundred and fifty talents of gold from there, and brought it to Sovereign Shelomoh. 

Now that we have seen the historical facts of how these ships of Tarshish were built and sent to Ophir to bring in gold to king Shelomoh and this continued until the days of Yahushapat until Yahuah wrecked these ships because of his association with the house of Ahab, now let's see the spirit in prophecy to understand these things.

It's interesting to see the word 'Etsyon Geber' which has the root word ' Tsyun/Zion' H6726 and with the ayin in front of it it read as 'See/Ayin Tsyun' and 'Geber' means 'mighty' H1368. Put together 'See Tsyun the mighty'.

The word 'Eyloth' H359 has the word 'Ayl' H352 which means 'Ram' and with the 'Tau' at the end which means 'covenant' it would read ' Ram of the covenant'

Remember these places were in Edom/Adum which has 'Adam' rooted in it which has the 'red blood/dam' and Esau was Edom

Gen 25:25  And the first came out red/adamunay all over, like a hairy garment, so they called his name Ěsaw. 

This is the same Esau who for the red/adam sold his birthright to his brother Yaaqob and therefore his name was called Edom/Adam or Adum.

Gen 25:30 and Esau said to Ya’aqob, Please let me have of the red/adam, this red stuff/adam there, for I am famished. Therefore his name was called Edom

The word Ophir/Auphar H211 has the root word 'Aphar' which means 'doubly fruitful' and is the same root word in 'Ephrayim H669/Ephrath H672'. 

The word 'Tarshish' has the root words 'Tar/border' and shayash H7893 which is a marble which is white

The gold coming from Ophir/Auphar on ships of Tarshish was a picture of the 'Ephrathite' (Yasharal) coming from the border which is like the merchandise of 'white marble' as doubly fruitful.

Isa 60:9  “Because the coastlands wait for Me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your sons from afar, their silver and their gold with them, to the Name of יהוה your Elohim, and to the Set-apart One of Yisra’ĕl, because He has adorned you. 
Isa 60:10  “And the sons of foreigners shall build your walls, and their sovereigns serve you. For in My wrath I have smitten you, but in My delight I shall have compassion on you. 
Isa 60:11  “And your gates shall be open continually, they are not shut day or night, to bring to you the wealth of the gentiles, and their sovereigns in procession. 

The picture is of Esau/Adum being outside the covenant but is using the Abary names (as used by the Edomites in naming these places) and outward form of the law which point inward to the Ruach in the letter showing a outward to inward view of the Turah.


Isa 2:12  For יהוה of hosts has a day against all that is proud and lofty, against all that is lifted up, so that it is brought low; 
Isa 2:13  and against all the cedars of Leḇanon that are high and lifted up, and against all the oaks of Bashan; 
Isa 2:14  and against all the high mountains, and against all the hills that are lifted up; 
Isa 2:15  and against every lofty tower, and against every strong wall; 
Isa 2:16  and against all the ships of Tarshish, and against all the desirable craft. 
Isa 2:17  And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the pride of men shall be brought low. And יהוה alone shall be exalted in that day, 

It's interesting to see Yahuah using the same terminology 'cedars of Lebanon' , 'oaks of Bashan'  & 'ships of Tarshish' when pronouncing judgment in bringing the loftiness of man low. The cedars of Lebanon as we read were sent by Chayram on rafts/dabarah by way of sea to king Shelomoh to build the house of Yahuah and later this route carried the merchandise through ships of Tarshish unto the king.

The outward form of the letter held the ruach in it which pointed to Mashiyach, while all those outside being occupied in a physical temple will be destroyed those in the ruach temple will live forever.

Son 5:15  His legs are columns of marble/shayish Founded on sockets of fine gold. His appearance is like Leḇanon, Choice as the cedars.

Psa 104:16  The trees of יהוה are satisfied, The cedars of Leḇanon which He planted, 

Coming back to the ships of Tarshish, Yahuah uses the wreckage that was done at Etsyon Geber language in judgment

Isa 23:1  The message concerning Tyre/Tsur. Howl, you ships of Tarshish! For it has been destroyed, without house, without harbour. From the land of Kittim it has been revealed to them. 
Isa 23:2  Be silent, you inhabitants of the coastland, you merchants of Tsiḏon, who passed over the sea, they filled you. 
Isa 23:3  And on great waters the grain of Shiḥor, the harvest of the River, was her increase. And she was a market-place for the nations. 
Isa 23:4  Be ashamed, O Tsiḏon, for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, “I have not laboured, nor brought forth children; neither have I reared young men, brought up maidens.” 
Isa 23:5  Like the report of Mitsrayim, they too are grieved at the report of Tsor. 
Isa 23:6  Pass over to Tarshish; wail, you inhabitants of the coastland! 
Isa 23:7  Is this your city of revelry, whose antiquity is from days of old, whose feet carried her far off to sojourn? 

It's interesting to see that Tarshish got it's name from the one of the grandsons of Yahpeth. Yawan from whom came the Greeks and Tarshish and Kittim were the sons of Yawan.

Gen 10:4  And the sons of Yawan: Elishah and Tarshish, Kittim and Doḏanim. 
Gen 10:5  From these the coastland peoples of the Gentiles were separated into their lands, everyone according to his language, according to their clans, into their nations. 

The word Tyre in Abary is Tsur which also means 'rock' H6697 and Yahuah is said to be our rock.

The lamentation was taken up for the prince of Tsur/Tyre whose heart was lifted up to be like Yahuah

Eze 28:1  And the word of יהוה came to me, saying, 
Eze 28:2  “Son of man, say to the prince of Tsor, ‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “Because your heart is lifted up, and you say, ‘I am Ěl, I sit in the seat of Elohim, in the heart of the seas,’ whereas you are a man, and not Ěl, though you set your heart as the heart of Elohim! 

This lamentation was for Adam who was like a covering cherub as he in his flesh held the true pattern i.e. Mashiyach as Rom 5:14 says that he was the figure of him who was to come.

Eze 27:1  The word of יהוה came again to me, saying, 
Eze 27:2  “Now, son of man, take up a lamentation for Tsor, 
Eze 27:3  and you shall say to Tsor, ‘You who dwell at the entrance to the sea, merchant of the peoples on many coastlands, thus said the Master יהוה, “O Tsor, you yourself have said, ‘I am perfect in loveliness.’ 
Eze 27:4  “Your borders are in the heart of the seas. Your builders have perfected your loveliness. 
Eze 27:5  “They have made all your timbers of fir trees from Senir. They took a cedar from Leḇanon to make a mast for you. 
Eze 27:6  “From the oaks of Bashan they made your oars. They made your deck with ivory from the coasts of Kittim. 
Eze 27:7  “Of fine embroidered linen from Mitsrayim was your sail to serve you as banner. Of blue and purple from the coasts of Elishah was your covering. 
Eze 27:8  “The inhabitants of Tsiḏon and Arwaḏ were your seamen. Your wise men, O Tsor, were in you, they were your sailors. 
Eze 27:9  “The elders of Geḇal and its wise men were in you repairing your seams. All the ships of the sea and their seamen were in you to trade your merchandise. 
Eze 27:10  “Those from Persia, Luḏ, and Put were in your army as men of battle. Shield and helmet they hung up within you, they gave splendour to you. 
Eze 27:11  “The sons of Arwaḏ, and your army were on your walls all around, and the Gammaḏites were in your towers. They hung their shields on your walls all around, they perfected your loveliness. 
Eze 27:12  “Tarshish was your merchant because of your great wealth. They gave you silver, iron, tin, and lead for your merchandise. 
Eze 27:13  “Yawan, Tuḇal, and Mesheḵ were your traders. They exchanged slaves and objects of bronze for your merchandise. 

Eze 27:17  “Yehuḏah and the land of Yisra’ĕl were your traders. For your merchandise they exchanged wheat of Minnith, and early figs, and honey, and oil, and balm.

When we read Ezekiel 27:17 we see Yahuah saying Yahudah and the land of Yasharal were traders of Tsur/Tyre and the verse says for your merchandise they exchanged wheat of Minnith and early figs, and honey and oil and balm. Didn't we read that king Shelomoh agreed to give food to king of Tyre Chayram/Hiram for the merchandise he would send via the sea? Yahuah  is using the same terminology in taking up a lamentation for Tsur/Tyre. So these ships of Tarshish typified a carrying of the basarah to build the house of Yahuah until the evil house of Ahab through whom came the Baal worship was mingled which caused the wreckage of those ships spiritually.

Tsur/Tsor is compared to Babylon the great whore and the seventy years of captivity of Yasharal under her rule Tsur will be forgotten and after the seventy years .....Isa 23:17  And at the end of seventy years it shall be that יהוה visits Tsor. And she shall return to her hire and commit whoring with all the reigns of the earth on the face of the soil.

Isa 23:11  He has stretched out His hand over the sea, He shook the reigns; יהוה has given a command against Kenaʽan to destroy its strongholds. 
Isa 23:12  And He said, “Never again shall you exult, O you oppressed maiden daughter of Tsiḏon. Arise, pass over to Kittim, even there you shall find no rest.” 
Isa 23:13  See the land of the Chaldeans – this people did not exist. Ashshur founded it for wild beasts of the desert. They set up their siege-towers, they demolished her palaces, and made her a ruin. 
Isa 23:14  Howl, you ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid waste! 
Isa 23:15  And in that day it shall be that Tsor is forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one sovereign. At the end of seventy years it shall be to Tsor as in the song of the whore: 
Isa 23:16  “Take a lyre, go about the city, you forgotten whore; make sweet playing, sing many songs, so that you might be remembered.” 
Isa 23:17  And at the end of seventy years it shall be that יהוה visits Tsor. And she shall return to her hire and commit whoring with all the reigns of the earth on the face of the soil. 
Isa 23:18  And her goods and her hire shall be set apart for יהוה, not treasured nor laid up, for her gain is for those who dwell before יהוה, to eat sufficiently, and for a choice covering. 

It's interesting to see that post the 70 years of captivity there was also a literal fulfillment of the prophecy as we read in Ezra 3:6-7 that they gave silver to the stonemasons, carpenters, food and drink etc to the people of Tsidon and Tsur to bring cedar logs from Lebanon to the sea.

Ezr 3:6  From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to יהוה. But the foundation of the Hĕḵal of יהוה had not been laid. 

Ezr 3:7  And they gave silver to the stonemasons and the carpenters, and food, and drink, and oil to the people of Tsiḏon and Tsor to bring cedar logs from Leḇanon to the sea at Yapho, according to the permission which they had from Koresh sovereign of Persia. 

Tsur was a haven for all kinds of craftsmen and their trading to the ends of the earth and Yahuah uses the same terminology and names to show a spiritual picture of a harlotry basarah/gospel going to the ends of the earth. While Huram/Chayram or Churam the king of Tsur/Tyre was in a peace covenant with Daud and Shelemoh and helped them build their houses and also the house of Yahuah his name shows a picture of a merchandise of deceit being traded which in later generations would be the cause of Yasharal's mingling with the false merchandise which initially was tub/good.

Rev 18:11  “And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, because no one buys their merchandise any more – 
Rev 18:12  merchandise of gold and silver, and precious stone and pearls, and fine linen and purple, and silk and scarlet, and all citron wood, and every object of ivory, and every object of most precious wood and bronze and iron and marble, 

Rev 18:13  and cinnamon and incense, and fragrant oil and frankincense, and wine and oil, and fine flour and wheat, and cattle and sheep, and horses and carriages, and bodies and lives of men. 

We read in YashaYahu 60:9 that the ships of Tarshish brought the sons from afar and we saw the gold from Ophir which came through these ships to king Shelomog has the same root as Ephrathite and we read one of the merchandise of Mystery Babylon was 'lives of men'

Isa 60:9  “Because the coastlands wait for Me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your sons from afar, their silver and their gold with them, to the Name of יהוה your Elohim, and to the Set-apart One of Yisra’ĕl, because He has adorned you. 

Rev 18:19  “And they threw dust on their heads and cried out, weeping and mourning, and saying, ‘Woe! Woe, the great city, in which all who had ships on the sea became rich by her wealth! For in one hour she was laid waste.’ 

We read of Ophir and Hawilah where there is gold found were grandsons of Shem and is a picture of the elect coming to Mashiyach through the ships of Tarshish

Gen 10:22  The sons of Shĕm: Ěylam, and Asshur, and Arpaḵshaḏ, and Luḏ, and Aram. .......
Gen 10:29  and Ophir, and Ḥawilah, and Yoḇaḇ. All these were sons of Yoqtan.

Speaking of Mashiyach Psalms 45:9 says at your right hand stands the queen in gold of Ophir

Ps 45:9 Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon your right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.

Yonah/Jonah fled to Tarshish from the presence of Yahuah and boarded one of the ships of Tarshish and he was cast into the sea and swallowed up by a big fish

Jon 1:3  But Yonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of יהוה, and went down to Yapho, and found a ship going to Tarshish. And he paid the fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of יהוה. 

And it says as Yunah was three days and three nights in the belly of the fish even so the Son of Adam be in the heart of the earth

Mat 12:39  But He answering, said to them, “A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet Yonah. 

Mat 12:40  “For as Yonah was three days and three nights in the stomach of the great fish, so shall the Son of Aḏam be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. 

Figuratively the ships of Tarshish carried Mashiyach into the depths of the heart of the earth as he is the true merchandise which was despised and cast into the sea to stop the raging of the sea.

There is much that can be said of the ships of Tarshish and the language of blessing and judgment which Yahuah uses in his dabar but this tar/tur which means 'tour/border' of the 'whiteness' is both positive as well as negative. If you are in Mashiyach you are touring the true whiteness and the sweet merchandise and if in Mystery Babylon then you are touring the deceitful whiteness and the deceitful merchandise which only builds a physical heykal.

From which tribe is the Shepherd of Yasharal? Yahudah or Yoseph?

When we read the blessings given to the twelve tribes in Genesis 49 we see two tribes Yahudah and Yoseph being made the promise of the Ruler i.e. Mashiyach coming from them. Is there a contradiction? A carnal eye would see a contradiction but when we look at scriptures deeply we will see both are correct and this study is to show just how Yahuah fulfilled his promise to Yahudah as well as Yoseph. Let's get straight into the scriptures to see just how. Firstly we will see Yaaqob telling his sons what is going to befall them in the last days.

Gen 49:1 Then Ya’aqob called unto his sons and said, Assemble yourselves that I may tell you what shall befall you in the last days.

Yaaqob's blessing for Yahudah:

Gen 49:9 Yahudah is a lion’s whelp; from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He couches, he lies down as a lion, and as a old lion, who dares rouse him up?
Gen 49:10 The scepter shall not depart from Yahudah, nor the lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh comes, and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.
Gen 49:11 He ties his foal to the vine, and his donkey’s colt to the choice vine; he washes his garments in wine, and his robes in the blood of grapes.
Gen 49:12 His eyes are dull from wine, and his teeth white from milk.

Yaaqob's blessing for Yoseph:

Gen 49:22 Yoseph is a son of the fruitful bough, a son of a fruitful bough by a spring; its branches run over a wall
Gen 49:23 The masters of arrows harass him, and shoot and lie in wait for him;
Gen 49:24 But his bow abides in strength, and the hands of his arms were agile, from the hands of the Mighty One of Ya’aqob from there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Yisra’El
Gen 49:25 from El of your father who helps you, and by the Almighty who blesses you with blessings of heavens above, blessings of the deep that lies beneath, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
Gen 49:26 The blessings of your father have surpassed the blessings of my ancestors up to the utmost bound of the everlasting hills; may they be on the head of Yoseph, and on the crown of the head of the one distinguished among his brothers.

Gen 48:22  “And I, I have given to you (Yoseph) one portion above your brothers, which I took from the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.”

Let's look at each promise closely and then let's see a scriptural fulfillment of those promises made to Yahudah and Yoseph. When we read the blessing of Yahudah the promise reads ''Gen 49:10 The scepter shall not depart from Yahudah, nor the lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh comes, and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.''

Who was Shiloh/Shaylah?

Gen 38:6  And Yehuḏah took a wife for Ěr his first-born, and her name was Tamar.
Gen 38:7  But Ěr, Yehuḏah’s first-born, was evil in the eyes of יהוה, and יהוה took his life.
Gen 38:8  And Yehuḏah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife and marry her, and raise up an heir to your brother.”
Gen 38:9  And Onan knew that the offspring would not be his. And it came to be, when he went in to his brother’s wife, that he spilled on the ground, lest he should give an offspring to his brother.
Gen 38:10  But what he did displeased יהוה, so He took his life too.
Gen 38:11  Then Yehuḏah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow in your father’s house until my son Shĕlah is grown.” For he said, “Lest he also die as his brothers did.” And Tamar went and dwelt in her father’s house.

Yahudah had three sons and Er was evil in the sight of Yahuah and Yahuah took his life, his brother acted wickedly by not raising a seed for his dead brother and emitted on the ground because of which Yahuah took his life. Onan knew that the child born to Tamar would not be his but his dead brothers and he broke the dabar of Yahuah which came from the fathers to their children which later was confirmed by the Turah which came written in letter. Yahudah was grieved and promised Tamar to wait till his son Shalah/Shaylah grows up so that he could raise his seed for his dead brother but later he forgot his promise because of which Tamar acted like a harlot and got her seed directly from her father in law.

Gen 38:25 She was being brought out that she sent to her father-in-law, saying, I am with child by the man to whom these things belong to him. And she said, Please examine and see, whose signet ring and cords and staff are these?
Gen 38:26 Yahudah recognized them, and said, She is more righteous than I, inasmuch as I did not give her to my son Shalah. And he did not have relations with her again.

The name Tamar means 'palm tree/erect' and her name itself shows her uprightness.

The name 'Shalah/Shaylah' means to draw out

While Yahudah's earthly son Shalah/Shaylah couldn't give his dead brother a seed to end his brother's wife's widowhood, the promise is of Mashiyach who would 'Shalah/draw out' a seed from Tamar/Erect which is qodesh and will give life.

Eze 41:18  And it was made with keruḇim and palm trees/tamarah, and a palm tree/tamar between keruḇ and keruḇ. A keruḇ had two faces,
Eze 41:19  so that the face of a man was toward a palm tree on one side, and the face of a young lion toward a palm tree on the other side – made on all the House all around.

The spiritual haykal/temple which Ezekiel saw had on the most set apart place kerubims and in between the kerubims was a palm tree/tamar which the face of one kerub of man facing towards a palm tree/tamar and the face of a lion facing the palm tree on the other side.

Gen 49:9 Yahudah is a lion’s whelp; from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He couches, he lies down as a lion, and as a old lion, who dares rouse him up?

HalaluYah the lion of Yahudah as a man faces Tamar to end her widowhood and purchase her to be his bride.

Now let's look at the blessing of Yoseph closely:

Gen 48:22  “And I, I have given to you (Yoseph) one portion above your brothers, which I took from the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.”

Yoseph was given one portion above his brothers and we see this in Genesis 48 how Yaaqob tells Yoseph that his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim will be counted as tribes in Yasharal.

Gen 48:5 Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are mine; they, Ephrayim and Manasseh, like Reuben and Shimeon shall be mine.
Gen 48:6 But your offspring that have been born after them shall be yours; they shall be called by the names of their brothers in their inheritance.

There is a spiritual significance in the names Ephrayim and Manasseh

Ephrayim: Ephrayim means doubly fruitful

Yoseph's blessing was that he will be a fruitful bough

Gen 49:22 Yoseph is fruitful/parat H6509 son/ban H1121, a fruitful/parat H6509 son/ban H1121 by a spring; its branches run over a wall.

If you notice in the above verse it's mentioned twice that Yoseph is a parat ban a parat ban which means a fruitful son and Ephrayim exactly means ''I shall be doubly fruitful'' and parat is the root word in Ephrathah which was a part of the name of Bethlehem where our Mashiyach Yahusha was born.

Mich 5:2  “But you, Bĕyth Leḥem Ephrathah, you who are little among the clans of Yahuḏah, out of you shall come forth to Me the One to become Ruler in Yisra’ĕl. And His comings forth a are of old, from everlasting.”

Ephrath: a place of fruitfulness

'Parat' H6509 which means 'fruitful' is a root word in 'Ephrath'

HalalUYah there is so much depth in the wisdom of Yahuah hidden in his dabar.

Matt 2:4 So he assembled all the leading priests and scribes of the people, inquired of them, saying, Where will the Mashiyach be born?
Matt 2:5 They told him, In Beyith-Lechem of Yahudah; for this is how it was written by the hand of the prophet:
Matt 2:6 And you, Beyith-Lechem, land of Yahudah, are not least among the chiefs of Yahudah; for from you shall go forth a ruler who shall shepherd My people Yisrael.

It's interesting to see the same word 'parat' H6578 is the river Euphrates and it's spoken of Euphrates to be the border of the land of Yasharal as promised to Abraham.

Gen 15:18  On the same day יהוה made a covenant with Aḇram, saying, “I have given this land to your seed, from the river of Mitsrayim to the great river, the River Euphrates/Parat,

Also in the last days it's spoken of Euphrates/Parat to be dried up to make way for the kings of the east to make war with Yasharal. These are spiritual things which need to be understood spiritually.

Re 16:12 ¶ And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates/Parats; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.

Manasseh: 

While Yoseph named his elder son Manasseh because he Alahym made him forget all his toil and his father's house, the name Manasseh has a deep spiritual meaning embedded in it

Gen 41:51  And Yosĕph called the name of the first-born Menashsheh, “For Elohim has made me forget all my toil and all my father’s house.”
Gen 41:52  And the name of the second he called Ephrayim, “For Elohim has caused me to bear fruit in the land of my affliction.”

There are several root words in the name Manasseh, man/kind of, man/portion, mana/bread from heaven, manah/numbering (The grouping together and counting of those that are of the same kind), nash/loan or debt, nasha/forget

The kind of bread of heaven given to those of the same kind grouped together whose loan or debt or toil was caused to forget.

While Manasseh was the eldest son of Yoseph, Ephrayim got the status of the firstborn.

Jer 31:8  “See, I am bringing them from the land of the north, and shall gather them from the ends of the earth, among them the blind and the lame, those with child and those in labour, together – a great assembly returning here.
Jer 31:9  “With weeping they shall come, and with their prayers I bring them. I shall make them walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they do not stumble. For I shall be a Father to Yisra’ĕl, and Ephrayim – he is My first-born.

Speaking of gathering Yasharal from the land of the north (Babylon) and from the ends of the earth Yahuah says with weeping they shall come and make them walk by the rivers of waters and in a straight way in which they do not stumble, here Yahuah says Ephrayim is his firstborn.

Coming back to the blessing of Yoseph

Gen 48:13 Yoseph took them both, Ephrayim with his right hand toward Yisra’El’s left, and Manasseh with his left hand toward Yisra’El’s right, and brought them close to him.
Gen 48:14 But Yisra’El stretched out his right hand and laid it on the head of Ephrayim, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh’s head, by understanding/sakal his alaph tau hands/yadayu although Manasseh was the firstborn.
Gen 48:15 He blessed Yoseph, and said, The Elohim in His presence whom my fathers Abraham and Yitschaq walked, the Elohim who has been my shepherd from my youth to this day,
Gen 48:16 The angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and may my name live on in them, and the names of my fathers Abraham and Yitschaq; And may they grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.
Gen 48:17 When Yoseph saw that his father laid his right hand on Ephrayim’s head, it displeased him; and he grasped his father’s hand to remove it from Ephrayim’s head to Manasseh’s head.
Gen 48:18 Yoseph said to his father, Not so, my father, for this one is the firstborn. Place your right hand on his head.
Gen 48:19 But his father refused and said, I know, my son, I know; he also shall become a people and he also shall be great. But his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his descendants shall become a multitude of nations.
Gen 48:20 He blessed them that day, saying, By you Yisra’El shall bless, saying, May Elohim make you like Ephrayim and like Manasseh! Thus he put Ephrayim before Manasseh.

Gen 48:22 I give you one portion more than your brothers, which I took from the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.

While there are many alaph tau before certain words in the above verses it's noteworthy to see the alaph tau before the word 'yadau' which means hands. And the hands of Yaaqob were by understanding placed over Ephrayim and Manasseh, the Abary word for understanding is 'sakal

Sakal: Understanding

Yaaqob was on his death bed and his eyes were dim but in this state he got deep spiritual understanding from Yahuah.

Gen 48:10 Now the eyes of Yisra’El were so dim from age that he was not able to see. Then he brought them close to him, and he kissed them and embraced them.

So we see the background of the blessings received by Yahudah and Yoseph which shows the springing forth of Mashiyach. We saw through Tamar/Palm tree would spring forth the seed (Mashiyach) through Yahudah who gave seed to his dead son as Shaylah.
Yoseph would be a parat/fruitful son and his son Ephrayim/ Doubly fruitful  as we saw in Gen 49:22 where it says of Yoseph to be parat ban twice. Also Gen 48:22 where Yahuah through Yaaqob tells him that his portion would be one portion more than his brothers. We saw the fulfillment as prophesied in Micah 5:2 about Bethlehem Ephrath being among the clans of Yahudah

Mic 5:2  “But you, Bĕyth Leḥem Ephrathah, you who are little among the clans of Yehuḏah...

Thus we see Ephrayim and Yahudah coming together with a One blessing from where Yahusha would spring forth.

Two sticks one:

Eze 37:15  And the word of יהוה came to me, saying,
Eze 37:16  “And you, son of man, take a stick for yourself and write on it, ‘For Yehuḏah and for the children of Yisra’ĕl, his companions.’ Then take another stick and write on it, ‘For Yosĕph, the stick of Ephrayim, and for all the house of Yisra’ĕl, his companions.’
Eze 37:17  “Then bring them together for yourself into one stick, and they shall become one in your hand.
Eze 37:18  “And when the children of your people speak to you, saying, ‘Won’t you show us what you mean by these?’
Eze 37:19  say to them, ‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “See, I am taking the stick of Yosĕph, which is in the hand of Ephrayim, and the tribes of Yisra’ĕl, his companions. And I shall give them unto him, with the stick of Yehuḏah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in My hand.” ’
Eze 37:20  “And the sticks on which you write shall be in your hand before their eyes.
Eze 37:21  “And speak to them, ‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “See, I am taking the children of Yisra’ĕl from among the gentiles, wherever they have gone, and shall gather them from all around, and I shall bring them into their land.
Eze 37:22  “And I shall make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Yisra’ĕl. And one sovereign shall be sovereign over them all, and let them no longer be two nations, and let them no longer be divided into two reigns.

Fulfillment of the two sticks made one:

Rutc1:2 The name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife, Naomi; and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem in Yahudah. Now they entered the field of Moab and remained there

Elimelech had two sons Mahlon and Chilion and they were Ephrathites of Begthlehem in Yahudah. Ruth was the widow of Mahlon and as per Turah there was no one other son to Naomi to raise seed for Ruth since she chose to cling to Yahuah and his people. So when they returned to Yasharal she proposed that Boaz her husband's nearest kinsman/relative redeem Ruth to be his wife

Rut 2:1 Now Naomi had a kinsman of her husband, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech, whose name was Boaz.

Rut 4:10 Moreover, Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, I have purchased for myself for a wife to raise up the name of the deceased on his inheritance, so that the name of the deceased shall not be cut off from his brothers or from the gate of his place; you are witnesses today.

So it's evident that Ruth was the wife of Mahlon the Ephrathite (from Ephrayim)

Where was Boaz from?

The genealogy of Matthew 1 shows that Boaz was from Yahudah

Mat 1:1  The book of the genealogy of יהושע Messiah, Son of Dawiḏ, Son of Aḇraham:
Mat 1:2  Aḇraham brought forth Yitsḥaq, and Yitsḥaq brought forth Yaʽaqoḇ, and Yaʽaqoḇ brought forth Yehuḏah and his brothers.
Mat 1:3  And Yehuḏah brought forth Perets and Zeraḥ by Tamar, and Perets brought forth Ḥetsron, and Ḥetsron brought forth Ram. 
Mat 1:4  And Ram brought forth Amminaḏaḇ, and Amminaḏaḇ brought forth Naḥshon, and Naḥshon brought forth Salmon. 
Mat 1:5  And Salmon brought forth Boʽaz by Raḥaḇ, and Boʽaz brought forth Oḇĕḏ by Ruth, and Oḇĕḏ brought forth Yishai.
Mat 1:6  And Yishai brought forth Dawiḏ the sovereign, and Dawiḏ the sovereign brought forth Shelomoh by Uriyah’s wife.

The lineage:

Yahudah-Peretz-Hetsron-Ram-Amminadab-Nashon-Salmon-Boaz-Obed (through Ruth)-Yishai-Dawid

Rth 4:13  And Boʽaz took Ruth and she became his wife. And he went in to her, and יהוה granted her conception, and she bore a son.
Rth 4:14  And the women said to Naʽomi, “Blessed be יהוה, who has not left you this day without a redeemer. And let his Name be proclaimed in Yisra’ĕl!
Rth 4:15  “And he shall be to you a restorer of life and a sustainer of your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has borne him.”
Rth 4:16  And Naʽomi took the child and laid him on her bosom, and became a nurse to him.
Rth 4:17  And the women, her neighbours, gave him a name, saying, “There is a son born to Naʽomi.” And they called his name Oḇĕḏ. He was the father of Yishai, the father of Dawiḏ.

Thus we see the seed of Yahudah- Boaz and the wife of the dead Ephrathite Ruth coming together to bring forth the stem of Yishai

Isa 11:1  And a stem shall come forth from the stump of Yishai, and a Sprout from his roots shall bear fruit. 
Isa 11:2  The Spirit of יהוה shall rest upon Him – the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of יהוה,
Isa 11:3  and shall make Him breathe in the fear of יהוה. And He shall not judge by the sight of His eyes, nor decide by the hearing of His ears.

Rut 4:10 Moreover, Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, I have purchased for myself for a wife to raise up the name of the deceased on his inheritance, so that the name of the deceased shall not be cut off from his brothers or from the gate of his place; you are witnesses today.

We see Yahudite Boaz purchasing Ruth the wife of Mahlon as per Yahuah's dabar because Elimelech's closest relative couldn't redeem her to give her dead husband a seed. We see Boaz says in Ruth 4:10 that he has purchased for himself for a wife to raise up the name of the deceased on his inheritance so that the name of the deceased shall not be cut off from his brothers.

1 Sam 17:12  Now Dawiḏ was the son of that Ephrathite of Bĕyth Leḥem in Yehuḏah, whose name was Yishai, and he had eight sons, and in the days of Sha’ul the man was old among men

That;s how we see Yahusha is called as Son of Dawid.

Rev 22:16  “I, יהושע, have sent My messenger to witness to you these matters in the assemblies. I am the Root and the Offspring of Dawiḏ, the Bright and Morning Star.”

Rev 5:5  And one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep. See, the Lion of the tribe of Yehuḏah, the Root of Dawiḏ, overcame to open the scroll and to loosen its seven seals.

The custom of redemption to give seed to the widow of the dead husband:

Deu 25:5  “When brothers dwell together, and one of them has died, and has no son, the widow of the dead man shall not become a stranger’s outside. Her husband’s brother does go in to her, and shall take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.
Deu 25:6  “And it shall be that the first-born son which she bears does rise up for the name of his dead brother, so that his name is not blotted out of Yisra’ĕl.
Deu 25:7  “But if the man does not desire to take his brother’s wife, then let his brother’s wife go up to the gate to the elders, and say, ‘My husband’s brother refuses to raise up a name to his brother in Yisra’ĕl, he does not agree to perform the duty of my husband’s brother.’
Deu 25:8  “The elders of his city shall then call him and speak to him, and he shall stand and say, ‘I have no desire to take her,’

Deu 25:9  then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and remove his sandal/ naal H5275 from his foot, and shall spit in his face, and answer and say, ‘Thus it is done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.’

Naal:

Al (ayin lamed)  form the word 'rise'. It's a root word in malah which is translated as ascending.

The nun /seed is trying to ascend. Shoe/naal had an important role in the Turah.

If the widow was not redeemed by her dead husbands brother who refused to give her a seed she was to remove his sandal /naal and spit on him in front of the elders.

Ruth 4:6  And the redeemer said, “I am not able to redeem it for myself, lest I ruin my own inheritance. Redeem my right of redemption for yourself, for I am not able to redeem it.”
 7  And this was formerly done in Yisra’ĕl concerning redeeming and exchanging, to confirm every word: one man took off his sandal/naal and gave it to the other, and this was a witness in Yisra’ĕl.
 8  So the redeemer said to Boʽaz, “Buy it for yourself.” Then he took off his sandal/naal H5275

The seed of the dead husband rose through Boaz who redeemed her. Didn't Yahuchanan say he is not worthy to untie Yahushas sandals? So the seed rising is Mashiyach.

Matt 3:11 See, I am immersing you with water for repentance, but the one coming after me is mightier than I am, whose sandals/naalayu I am not worthy to carry; He shall immerse you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.

Aluahym in his wisdom has woven this.

Ps 108:9 Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe/naal; over Philistia will I triumph.

Why is Yahuah saying over Edom he will cast out his shoe? Because Edom is Esau who despised his birthright/bakarah

Gen 25:31  But Yaʽaqoḇ said, “Sell me your birthright/bakarah today.”
Gen 25:32  And Ěsaw said, “Look, I am going to die, so why should I have birthright/bakarah?”
Gen 25:33  Then Yaʽaqoḇ said, “Swear to me today.” And he swore to him, and sold his birthright/bakarah to Yaʽaqoḇ.
Gen 25:34  Yaʽaqoḇ then gave Ěsaw bread and stew of lentils. And he ate and drank, and rose up and left. Thus Ěsaw despised his birthright/bakarah H1062.

The Abary word bakar means 'firstfruits' and despising the firstfruits is despising Mashiyach. Esaw's had the potential as the elder son to bring forth the 'firstfruits' (Mashiyach) but he despised it and sold it to his younger brother and what he gets is a casting of a shoe/naal from Yahuah himself for spiritually he refused raising the seed.

The sealing of the 12 tribes:

Rev 7:5 From the tribe of YAHUDAH (two sticks were made one EPHRAIM), twelve thousand were sealed, from the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand, from the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand,

Rev 7:6 from the tribe of Asher were sealed twelve thousand, from the tribe of Naphtali were sealed twelve thousand, from the tribe of MANASSEH were sealed twelve thousand

Rev 7:7 from the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thousand, from the tribe of Levi were sealed twelve thousand, from the tribe of Issachar were sealed twelve thousand,

Rev 7:8 from the tribe of Zebulun were sealed twelve thousand, from the tribe of YOSEPH were sealed twelve thousand, from the tribe of Benyamin, twelve thousand were sealed.

Rev 7:9 After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could count, from every nation and tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palm branches were in their hands;

Ephraim is not listed in the genealogy because with Yahudah he was made one, Aluahym kept his promise to Yoseph that he would have a portion above his brothers and hence his name and his sons name Manasseh is listed

May Yahuah barak all those who understand this mystery.