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(Part 9vl of 11)
For months now I keep running into the name Jashub. Time for a closer look. Our present quest is to answer what role Jashub plays in the whole story of mythology as massacred in the JC bible.
The Book of Jasher reveals that the story of Jashub can in no way be about humans in the form we are. The story spans several chapters and is about superhuman souls of life as they go through cycles, life cycles.
Anyone can easily find the story of Jashub in the Book of Jasher.
I will simply comment on certain aspects of the story as follows:
1. Simeon, Levi, Judah, Jacob and Jashub are clearly operating in another dimension.
2. In addition to what we already know about Shechem, Shechem represents the holy of holies. The cities surrounding Shechem are the temple guards. Jashub is King of Tapnach. Tapnach is one of the guardian cities of Shechem.
3. Jacob's twelve sons represent the changing of the guard and changing of the priests. Then Judah comes along and asserts himself as entitled to the kingship among the twelve tribes of Jacob. (Jasher 34:39 pdf 102)
4. According to page 111 of the Apocalypse of Abraham, Prophet Isaiah has a son named Josab (Shear-jashub or Shearjashub). (Isaiah 7:3). Josab is a form of Josabad, Jozabad, Sabad, Zabad and Zabdi.
5. Josabad of Jesu (1 Esdras 8:63) is the same as Jozabad of Jeshua (Ezra 8:33-34)
6. And of the priests that were come together, and had strange wives, there were found: Of the sons of Jesus the son of Josedec, and his brethren; Matthelas and Eleazar, and Joribus and Joadanus...And of the sons of Phaisur; Elionas, Massias Israel, and Nathanael, and Ocidelus and Talsas. And of the Levites; Jozabad, and Semis, and Colius, who was called Calitas, and Patheus, and Judas, and Jonas...Of them of Israel, of the sons of Phoros; Hiermas, and Eddias, and Melchias, and Maelus, and Eleazar, and... Of the sons of Babai; Johannes, and Ananias and Josabad, and Amatheis. (1 Esdras 9:18-29)
7. Some of the mighty men who helped David: of the tribe of Manasseh: Adnah, Jozabad, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu, Zilthai. (1 Chronicles 12:20-21)
8. Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismachiah, Mahath and Benaiah, were overseers under Cononiah, Shimei, King Hezekiah, and Chief Priest Azariah...And next to him, Eden, Miniamin and Jeshua... (2 Chronicles 31:11-15)
9. Among the mighty men...Ismaiah [Isaiah??], Jeremiah, Jahaziel, Johanan, Josabad [Josab] the Gederathite... and Jashobeam, the Korhites. (1 Chronicles 12:1-6, pdf 261)
10. Sons of Shelah of Judah: Er, Laadah, Jokim, Joash, Saraph and Jashubi-lehem. ..These the potters, and those that dwelt among plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his work. (1 Chronicles 4:21-23)
11. Sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah, Jashub, Shimrom, four. (1 Chronicles 7:1)
12. Jashobeam of Zabdiel served the king first, for one month with twenty and four thousand. (1 Chronicles 27:2-3)
13. Among the priests who had taken strange wives: of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak... And of Pashur; Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethaneel, Jozabad, and Elasah. Also of the Levites; Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah (Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer. And of the sons of Zattu; Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, and
Zabad, and Aziza...And of the sons of Bani; Meshullam, Malluch, and Adaiah, Jashub, and Sheal, and Ramoth. (Ezra 10:18-29)
Jashub, though seemingly not of the twelves tribes of Jacob, is clearly part of the twelve tribes even though Jashub was King of Tapnach. Several names, above highlighted or not, continue to appear in multiple stories and events. These names transcend human chronology and are repetitious in nature to help us recognize patterns no matter how named.
