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Matthew 1:6
and Jesse begat David the king; and David the king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias;
and Jesse begat David the king; and David the king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias;
These verses contain the genealogy of Jesus. Luke also Luke 3 gives a genealogy of the Messiah. No two passages of Scripture have caused more difficulty than these, and various attempts have been made...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. The King and the Offer of the Kingdom. Chapter s 1-12. 1. Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham. (Matthew 1:1 .) 2. From Abraham to David. (Matthew 1:2 .) 3....
THE GENEALOGY OF JESUS (_cf._ Luke 3:23). The Biblical part of this genealogy (Matthew 1:2) is taken from 1 Chronicles 1-3, with some help from Ruth 4:18;...
This is the record of the lineage of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Abraham begat Isaac, and Isaac begat Jacob. Jacob begat Judah and his brothers. Judah begat Phares and Zara, w...
THE LINEAGE OF THE KING (Matthew 1:1-17)...
DAVID THE KING. Ruth 4:22. This addition to the name of David is because of the object of Matthew's Gospel. See the Structure on p. 1305.Luke 1:32. THE KING. Omitted by all the critical Greek texts e...
_David the king_ A special hint of Christ the King, of whom David was the type. It is at this point that St Luke's genealogy branches off. According to _natural_descent Joseph was a descendant of _Na...
ΔΑΥΕῚΔ ΤῸΝ ΒΑΣΙΛΈΑ. A special hint of Christ the king, of whom David was the type. ἘΚ ΤΗ͂Σ ΤΟΥ͂ ΟΥ̓ΡΊΟΥ. For the omission of γυναικὸς cp. ‘Hectoris Andromache,’ _Æn._ III. 319: such ellipse is natura...
VER 3-6. AND JUDAS BEGAT PHARES AND ZARA OF THAMAR; AND PHARES BEGAT ESROM; AND ESROM BEGAT ARAM; AND ARAM BEGAT AMINADAB; AND AMINADAB BEGAT NAASSON; AND NAASSON BEGAT SALMON; AND SALMON BEGAT BOOZ O...
VER 6-8. DAVID THE KING BEGAT SOLOMON OF HER THAT HAD BEEN THE WIFE OF URIAS; AND SOLOMON BEGAT ROBOAM; AND ROBOAM BEGAT ABIA; AND ABIA BEGAT ASA; AND ASA BEGAT JOSAPHAT. The Evangelist has now finis...
_THE BACKGROUND OF THE MESSIAH MATTHEW 1:1-11_ : The genealogy of Jesus connects him with God and man, Jew and Gentile, rich and poor, and men and women. It is of interest that four women are named in...
ΒΑΣΙΛΈΑ _acc. masc. sing. от_ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΎΣ (G935) царь. Связано с лейтмотивом книги Матфея. Иисус Христос, как Сын Давидов, — Царь....
SOLOMON, OF HER THAT HAD BEEN, &C.— In the original it is, _by her of Urias;_ a mode of expression common both among the Greeks and Romans. See the note on 2 Samuel 12:24....
CHAPTER ONE Section 1. THE GENEALOGY OF JESUS TEXT: 1:1-17 1. The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. 2. Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and...
And Jesse begat David the king; and David the king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias; AND JESSE BEGAT DAVID THE KING; AND DAVID THE KING BEGAT SOLOMON OF HER OF URIAS. [The words...
GENEALOGY AND BIRTH OF JESUS 1-17. Genealogy of Jesus: cp. Luke 3:23. The two genealogies of Jesus, which are constructed on quite different principles, require careful comparison and study, if their...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ ABOUT MATTHEW The author was a *Jewish Christian who wrote especially for *Jews. One early Christian writer said, ‘Matthew collected what Jes...
The wife of Urias. — Once again we have the mention of a woman who at least played a memorable part in the history of Israel. As this is the last of such names in the genealogy, it may be well to deal...
CHAPTER 1 The Coming of the Christ - Matthew 1:1 THE New Testament opens appropriately with the four Gospels; for, though in their present form they are all later in date than some of the Epistles,...
Matthew 1:2-6 a. καὶ τοὺς ἀδελφοὺς αὐτοῦ. This is not necessary to the genealogical line, but added to say by the way that He who belonged to the tribe of Judah belonged also to _all_ the tribes of Is...
Matthew 1:6-10, ἐκ τῆς τοῦ Οὐρίου, _vide_ above. The chief feature in this second division of the genealogical table is the omission of three kings between Joram and Uzziah (Matthew 1:8), _viz._, Ahaz...
a. τὸν Δαβὶδ τὸν βασιλέα, David _the King_, the title being added to distinguish him from the rest. It serves the same purpose as if David had been written in large letters. At length we arrive at the...
The genealogy divides into three parts: from Abraham to David (Matthew 1:2-6 a); from David to the captivity (Matthew 1:6-11); from the captivity to Christ. On closer inspection it turns out to be not...
THE LINE BY WHICH MESSIAH CAME Matthew 1:1-17 The enumeration of our Lord's ancestors, with its threefold division into fourteen generations and evident gaps, was probably so arranged to aid the memo...
The Gospel of Matthew portrays Jesus as King. It reveals Him as realizing in His Person, and enunciating in His teaching the great principles which had been the peculiar deposit and glory of the ancie...
Extract from St. John Chrysostom's first Homil. upon the first chapter of St. Matthew: "How, you say, does it appear that Christ descended from David? For if he be born not of man, but of a virgin, co...
GENEALOGIES Matthew 1 and Luke 3. There is but one fact of vital importance in all of these genealogies, and that is the transmission to all generations, an infallible history of our Lord's progenitor...
And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ. There would be nothing particularly necessary for me to detain the Reader with in going over this pedigree of...
God has been pleased, in the separate accounts He has given us of our Lord Jesus, to display not only His own grace and wisdom, but the infinite excellency of His Son. It is our wisdom to seek to prof...
6._Begat David the King _In this genealogy, the designation of _King _is bestowed on David alone, because in his person God exhibited a type of the future leader of his people, the Messiah. The kingly...
The object of the Spirit of God, in this Gospel, being to present Jehovah as fulfilling the promises made to Israel, and the prophecies that relate to the Messiah (and no one can fail to be struck wit...
AND JESSE BEGAT DAVID THE KING,.... The descent of the Messiah runs in the line of David, the youngest of Jesse's sons, who was despised by his brethren, and overlooked and neglected by his father; bu...
And Jesse begat David the king; and David the king begat Solomon of her _that had been the wife_ of Urias; Ver. 6. _And Jesse begat David the king_] But that was not his chief title: he gloried more...
_And Jesse begat David the king_ David has the title of king given him in this genealogy, because he was the first king of his family, and because he had the kingdom entailed upon his children; in whi...
The genealogy of the King of Israel must be clearly established as from Abraham, the original father of the nation, and from David, the first king of God's choice, who is in many ways a type of Christ...
1-17 Concerning this genealogy of our Saviour, observe the chief intention. It is not a needless genealogy. It is not a vain-glorious one, as those of great men often are. It proves that our Lord Jes...
Ver. 5,6. This agreeth with RUTH 4:22 1 SAMUEL 16:1,13. Here now ariseth the first difficulty we meet with in this genealogy, and it rather an appearance of a difficulty than a real one. SALMON being...
Matthew 1:6 and G1161 Jesse G2421 begot G1080 (G5656) David G1138 king G935 G1161 David G1138 king...
Matthew 1:6 ‘And David begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Uriah; and Solomon begat Rehoboam; and Rehoboam begat Abijah; and Abijah begat Asa; and Asa begat Jehoshaphat; and Jehoshaphat beg...
‘And Judah begat Perez and Zerah of Tamar; and Perez begat Hezron; and Hezron begat Ram; and Ram begat Amminadab; and Amminadab begat Nahshon; and Nahshon begat Salmon; and Salmon begat Boaz of Rahab;...
THE PRE-HISTORY (GENEALOGY) OF JESUS THE MESSIAH (1:2-16). The genealogy of Jesus now follows being in reverse order to Matthew 1:1; Matthew 1:1 refers from Jesus the Messiah back to His sources in Da...
SECTION 1. INTRODUCTION TO JESUS THE CHRIST (1:1-17). The introduction to the Gospel is in the form of a genealogy which indicates that Jesus is ‘the son of David' and ‘the son of Abraham'. This descr...
_The genealogy of Christ._ Two lists of the human ancestors of Christ are given in the New Testament: Matthew, writing for Jewish Christians, begins with Abraham; Luke (Luke 3:23-38), writing for Gent...
Matthew 1:6. DAVID THE KING. Emphatic as the culminating name of an ascending series. Even here pride is humbled; the wife of a heathen is mentioned, David's partner in the deepest guilt of his life,...
CONTENTS: Generations of Jesus Christ. His conception and birth. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Joseph, Mary, generations of Christ from Abraham to David. CONCLUSION: Jesus Christ was, in acc...
Matthew 1:1. _The book of the generation,_ or rather the genealogy, _of Jesus Christ._ This is the Hebraical mode of writing. Moses says, Genesis 5:1, This is the book of the generations of Adam. Jesu...
KING DAVID. The most famous of the family record. One title for the Messiah was "Son of David." URIAH'S WIFE. Bathsheba is not named directly. Uriah was a Hittite, a Gentile. She was a partner with Da...
_The book of the generation._ THE LESSONS OF CHRIST’S GENEALOGY 1. It is a proof of the reality of Christ’s humanity. 2. It suggests the relation of Christ’s work to the whole human race. 3. It ma...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 1:1 The Arrival of Jesus the Messiah. Matthew’s introduction echoes Genesis 1:1. The word in...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 1:6 Matthew may have drawn from 1 Chronicles 3:10. Both genealogies omit several of the kings found in the books of Kings and Chronicles. Such omissions were a common pr
THE GENEALOGY OF JESUS Matthew 1:1-17 Luke 3:23-38 Matthew's Genealogy starts at ABRAHAM and goes to Jesus. Luke's Genealogy starts at Jesus and goes in reverse to ADAM. When the genealogies arriv...
CHAPTER 1. The book of the generation. Thus it is verbally in the Greek, Latin, Syrian, Arabic, Egyptian, Persian texts. But the Ethiopian has _the genealogy of Jesus Christ_. Matthew here seems to im...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 1:1.—A _title_, and might be appropriately rendered, GENEALOGY OF JESUS CHRIST, SON OF DAVID, SON OF ABRAHAM (_Morison_). Refers, strictly speaking, not to the whole Gospel of...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 1:1 JESUS THE CHRIST BY HUMAN ANCESTRY, (Parallel passage: Luke 3:23.)...
Let's get into the Gospel According To Matthew. Matthew was a tax collector in Capernaum before he was called by Jesus Christ to be a disciple. He was also called Levi. And he opens his gospel by givi...
1 Chronicles 11:41; 1 Chronicles 14:4; 1 Chronicles 2:15; 1 Chronicles 28:5;...
David the king [τ ο ν δ α υ ε ι δ τ ο ν β α σ ι λ ε α, "the David, the king "]. Both words are thus emphasized : the David from whom Christ, if he were the Messiah, must have descended; the king with...
David the king — Particularly mentioned under this character, because his throne is given to the Messiah....