Chapter 10: The Lineage

But Tamar's story does not end with her.

Perez — the son who broke through — carried a bloodline that would stretch across centuries. Generation after generation, his descendants continued. One of them was a man named Boaz, who married a foreign widow named Ruth — another woman the world had overlooked. From their family came Jesse. And from Jesse came his youngest son — a shepherd boy no one expected God to choose — David. King David.

And from the line of David, generations later, came Jesus of Nazareth.

Tamar is named in the first chapter of the book of Matthew — one of only five women mentioned in the entire genealogy of Christ. God did not just remember her. He wrote her into the most important bloodline in human history.

The woman they tried to erase — God made eternal.