God's scepter promise, given to the tribe of Judah in Genesis 49:10, descended through the royal house of David until the fall of Jerusalem to Babylon cut off the direct male line. The breach between the two sons of Judah, Pharez and Zerah, was healed when God removed the crown of David from the ruling line of Pharez and placed it on a descendant of Zerah. Tea Tephi, a daughter of King Zedekiah of Judah and heir to the throne of David, married Herremon, an Irish prince of Zerah's line, after arriving in Ireland with the prophet Jeremiah around 569 BC. Their union, following the fall of Jerusalem in 585 BC, united the lines of Pharez and Zerah through their son, who sat as king over Israelites, mending the ancient breach. This dynasty continued unbroken through the kings of Ireland, was transplanted to Scotland in c. AD 487 with King Fergus I, and later to England in AD 1603 with James VI of Scotland crowned as James I of England, a line that persists today.

The scepter promise of kingship and grace through the Messiah passed from Jacob to his son Judah and then descended through the royal line of Judah's son Pharez. This line held the scepter from the time of David onward, as Solomon sat on the throne of the Lord in succession to his father David and every subsequent king of the Judaic royal lineage followed the same pattern. The Judah-Pharez-David-Zedekiah line continued to possess the scepter even after the division of the promises between the two nations, with Judah retaining the scepter while the birthright went to the tribes of Joseph. At the Babylonian captivity the line reached King Zedekiah, whose sons were slain and who himself died in prison with no surviving male heirs to the throne. Yet the promise that David's dynasty would remain on the throne through all generations required continuity. The birth account of Pharez and his twin Zerah reveals the origin of a breach in the royal seed, since Pharez emerged first despite Zerah's hand appearing initially, and this breach in the line of succession would later require healing through a marriage that would unite the two branches. Jesus Christ belongs to the Pharez line, as shown in the genealogies, and the scepter promise culminates in Him when He receives the Kingdom. The prophecy of three overturnings of the throne points forward to the eventual transfer that would restore the full continuity of the scepter until the Messiah claims it.

The line of Pharez formed the ruling royal lineage descending from Judah through which the scepter promise passed to David and his successors. A prophetic breach occurred in this line at the births of the twin sons Pharez and Zerah. Generations later the breach was healed through the marriage of a descendant of Pharez to a descendant of Zerah. This union took place shortly after the fall of Jerusalem in 585 BC. The prophet Jeremiah, entrusted with the daughters of King Zedekiah, facilitated the transfer that removed the crown of David from the ruling line of Pharez. God then placed the crown upon the head of a descendant of Zerah, thereby preserving the scepter promise in a new location while maintaining its continuity until the return of Christ.