One Night Early Bought Four Generations of Kings

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 87:1

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And Rabbi Yehoshua ben Korchah said: a person should always hasten to a matter of mitzvah, for on account of the one night by which the firstborn preceded the younger, she preceded her by four generations in Israel - Obed, Jesse, David, and Solomon - whereas the younger [merited royal descent only] as late as Rehoboam, as it is said, "and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess" (1 Kings 14:21).

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