Post edited 3:33 pm – February 11, 2010 by Olive

The Abrahamic promise was passed down through Isaac, Jacob, Judah, and finally to King David. The "sure mercies of David" referred to the assurance to David that the promised Messiah would come from his loins. The lineage in Matthew shows that the paternal line of Joseph, the legal father of Jesus, came through Solomon, the most famous of the sons of David. The lineage of Mary in Luke shows that the maternal line of Jesus came through Nathan, another son of David. Thus we see the double proof that Jesus, the Messiah was the fulfillment of the "sure mercies of David" (Isa. 55:3) and that is why he is called the Son of David–though his actual Father was God Almighty.