Davidic king, to be the Messiahs of his people. This belief in two Messiahs may be startling to those accustomed to think of Jews as expecting ‘the Messiah’ simply, but it is perfectly consistent with the group’s firmly held belief in a renewed Temple. It would be quite wrong for a Davidic king, descended from Judah, to preside over the true Temple; only a descendent of Levi, Aaron and Zadok would do. The Epistle to the Hebrews faced exactly the same problem, and simply solved it in a different way (Hebrews 5–7).
