When Jerusalem fell to Babylon, the direct male line of David's royal house was cut off. The prophet Jeremiah, fleeing to Egypt, was entrusted with King Zedekiah's daughters. Their story reveals the healing of the ancient breach between the two sons of Judah, Pharez and Zerah. In 569 BC, Jeremiah arrived in Ireland with an Eastern king's daughter named Tea Tephi, a daughter of King Zedekiah. Accompanying them was a prince, the son of the King of Ireland, who had married Tea Tephi shortly after Jerusalem's fall in 585 BC. Their young son, about 12 years old, also journeyed with them. Upon ascending his father's throne, this prince took the name Herremon. As Zedekiah's daughter, Tea Tephi was heir to David's throne, and through her marriage to Herremon, a descendant of Zerah, the breach between Pharez and Zerah was mended when their son ruled as king over Israelites. This dynasty continued unbroken through the kings of Ireland, was later transplanted to Scotland in c. AD 487 with King Fergus I, and then to England in AD 1603 with James VI of Scotland crowned as James I of England, a line that persists to this day.

At the fall of Jerusalem, as described in Jeremiah 52:7-11, King Zedekiah, his sons, and Judah's princes met their end. Yet, among the captives taken by Ishmael, as noted in Jeremiah 41:10, were Zedekiah's daughters, significant survivors of the royal line. These daughters, descendants of Perez through David's lineage, became pivotal in the continuation of Judah's monarchy. One of Zedekiah's daughters married an Irish prince of the Zerah line, a union that occurred during or shortly before the siege of Jerusalem, thus uniting the two branches of Judah's family—Perez and Zerah. This marriage healed a longstanding breach within Judah's lineage, ensuring the perpetuation of the royal scepter as promised in Genesis 49:10. Jeremiah, tasked by God with a mission to root out, pull down, destroy, throw down, build, and plant, as recorded in Jeremiah 1:9-10, was instrumental in this process. He escorted a party including at least one of Zedekiah's daughters and her husband, the Irish prince, along with his secretary Baruch and likely servants, to Ireland via Spain. Arriving around 569 BC, some sixteen years after Jerusalem's fall, Jeremiah facilitated the transplantation of the Davidic monarchy to Ireland, merging the Perez and Zerah lines. This act ensured that David's throne did not become defunct with the death of Zedekiah's sons, preserving God's promise of an everlasting monarchy for David.

The history of the scepter, a symbol of kingly authority promised to Judah, faced a critical moment during the reign of King Zedekiah. When the king of Babylon killed Zedekiah's sons before his eyes, put out his eyes, and carried him off to Babylon where he died in prison, no male heirs survived to inherit the throne of Judah. However, heirs of Zedekiah did survive through his daughters. Jeremiah records that Johanan took the remnant of Judah, including the king's daughters, along with Jeremiah and Baruch, into Egypt, where they eventually escaped. This preservation of Zedekiah's lineage through his daughters became significant in the continuity of the scepter promise, which was destined to be healed through a future union of the divided lines of Judah.

Following the fall of Jerusalem in 585 BC, a significant prophetic event unfolded through the line of David. A marriage between a descendant of Pharez and a descendant of Zerah rectified a prophetic breach that had occurred generations earlier with the births of the twin sons Pharez and Zerah. This union, steeped in prophecy and historical Irish tradition, marked a pivotal moment in the continuity of the scepter of the Kingdom of God.

King Zedekiah's sons were all killed, leaving no male heirs to the throne. However, under Hebrew law, a daughter could inherit as though she were a son, with the right of descent passing to her male seed, provided she married within her own house or tribe. Zedekiah had two daughters, Scota and Tea Tephi. These daughters, along with Jeremiah and others from Judah, were taken to Egypt with rebellious Israelites who had killed Gedaliah, the governor appointed by King Nebuchadnezzar over the remnant of Israel. When Jeremiah left Egypt, he carried the Bethel Stone, a witness of promises yet to be fulfilled. Scota, the younger sister, married in Spain, where Jeremiah and his company spent time before continuing to Ireland. Tea Tephi married Heremon, king of Ireland, and became queen. They were crowned on the Bethel Stone, and for the next 1,040 years, all kings of Ireland were also crowned on this stone. Ancient Irish records mention an eastern king's daughter and an aged prophet, identified as Jeremiah, bringing relics including the stone, called Lia Fail or stone of faith, from Egypt through Spain to Ireland.