Or were they? Bar Elyon was certainly a family name, as was Bar El. But pretty unique. They were names that came from the child’s father. Names that should have put her head in a spin. Added to the fact that her son was to take on being a King over a nation that had been poorly ruled for a very long time, and was at present occupied by a foreign power.
The fact that his kingdom would never end could be taken as an indication that the problems were intractable. In fact it was the opposite. His kingdom, at last, would be good, and great, and peaceful and there would be no end to its blessings.
But getting there was going to be difficult. And his mother was going to have a hard time of it as well. Seems like bad planning. Why couldn’t the father organise a better environment for his son to grow up and become King?
Of course it was the environment that was the problem that the son came to fix. They needed a King to clean up the mess. And they needed a King who was one of them, because the mess was in them. The cleanup had to be an inside job.
Dale