Matthew 1:8

And Asa begat Josaphat; and Josaphat begat Joram; and Joram begat Ozias; AND ASA BEGAT JOSAPHAT; AND JOSAPHAT BEGAT JORAM; AND JORAM BEGAT OZIAS (or Uzziah). Three kings are here omitted-Ahaziah, Joash, and Amaziah (1 Chronicles 3:11). Some omissions behoved to be made, to compress the whole into three fourteens (). The reason why these, rather than other names, are omitted must be sought in religious considerations-either in the connection of those kings with the house of Ahab (as Lightfoot, Ebrard, and Alford view it); in their slender right to be regarded as true links in the theocratic chain (as Lange takes it); or in some similar disqualification....

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 Jesus is of the nation and family out of which the Messiah was to arise. The promise of the blessing was made to Abraham and his seed; of the dominion, to David and his seed. It was promised to Abraham that Christ should descend from him, Genesis 12:3; Genesis 22:18; and to David that he should descend from him, 2 Samuel 7:12; Psalms 89:3; Psalms 132:11; and, therefor...

Verse Matthew 1:8. _JORAM BEGAT OZIAS_] This is the Uzziah, king of Judah, who was struck with the leprosy for his presumption in entering the temple to offer incense before the Lord. See 2 Chronicles 26:16, c. _Ozias_ was not the immediate son of _Joram_: there were three kings between them, _Ahaziah, Joash_, and _Amaziah_, which swell the _fourteen_ generations to _seventeen_: but it is observed that omissions of this kind are not uncommon in the Jewish genealogies. In Ezra 7:3, Azariah is called the son of _Meraioth_, although it is evident, from 1 Chronicles 6:7, that there were six...

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 to explain them. There are two sources of difficulty in these catalogues. * Many names that are found in the Old Testament are here omitted; and, * The tables of Matthew and Luke appear in many points to be different. From Adam to Abraham Matthew has mentioned no names, and Luke only has given the record. From Abraham to David the two tables are alike. Of course there is no difficulty in reconciling these two parts of the tables. The difficulty lies in that part of the genealogy from David to Christ. There they are entirely different. They are manifestly different lines. Not only are the names different, but Luke has mentioned,

EXPOSITION MATTHEW 1:1 JESUS THE CHRIST BY HUMAN ANCESTRY, (Parallel passage: Luke 3:23.) MATTHEW 1:1 THE BOOK OF THE GENERATION. As St. Matthew was writing only for Jews, and they, by reason of their Old Testament prophecies, looked for the Messiah to be born of a certain family, he begins his Gospel with a pedigree of Jesus. In this he mentions, by way of introduction, the two points to which his countrymen would have special regard—the descent of Jesus from David, the founder of the royal line, him in whose descendants the Ruler of Israel must

AND ASA BEGAT JOSAPHAT,.... Called Jehoshaphat, 1 Kings 15:24 whom Asa begat of Azubah, the daughter of Shilhi, 1 Kings 22:42. He also was a very good prince. AND JOSAPHAT BEGAT JORAM; called Jehoram, 1 Kings 22:50 to whom his father gave the kingdom, because he was the firstborn, 2 Chronicles 21:3. AND JORAM BEGAT OZIAS; called Uzziah, 2 Chronicles 26:1 and Azariah, 2 King

MATTHEW 1:7-8 VAsa,f( VAsa,f {B} It is clear that the name “Asaph” is the earliest form of text preserved in the manuscripts, for the agreement of Alexandrian (a B) and other witnesses (¦1 ¦13 700 1071) with Eastern versions (cop arm eth geo) and representatives of the Western text (Old Latin mss. and D in Luke [D is lacking for this part of Matthew]) makes a strong combination. Furthermore, the tendency of scribes, observing that the name of the psalmist Asaph (cf. the titles of Psalms 50:1 and Psalms 73:1 to...

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. From David to the Captivity. (Matthew 1:6 .) 4. From the Captivity to the Birth of Christ. (Matthew 1:12) 5. The Birth of Jesus Christ. (Matthew 1:18 .)_ CHAPTER 1 The first chapter of the Gospel of Matthew is divided into two parts. In the first to the seventeenth verse we find the genealogy of Jesus Christ, and in the last

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; Genesis 38:16 ff., and other OT passages. It contains devices for assisting the memory, _e.g._ (_a)_ three groups each of fourteen names, though one name is missing from the third group (_cf._ Matthew 1:17); (_b_) the three fourteens may be connected with the number (three) and the numerical value (fourteen) of the letters in the Heb. name David; (_c)_ notes like of Rahab, of Ruth ...

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, whose mother was Thamar. Phares begat Esrom. Esrom begat Aram. Aram begat Aminadab. Aminadab begat Naasson. Naasson begat Salmon. Salmon begat Booz, whose mother was Rachab. Booz begat Obed, whose mother was Ruth. Obed begat Jesse. Jesse begat David, the king. David begat Solomon, whose mother was Uriah's wife. Solomon begat Roboam. Roboam begat Abia. Abia begat Asaph. Asaph begat Josaphat. Josaphat begat Joram. Joram begat Ozias. Ozias begat Joatham. Joatham begat Achaz. Achaz begat Ezekias. Ezekias begat Manasses. Manasses begat Amos. Amos begat Josias. Josias begat Jechonias, and his brothers, in the days when the exile to Babylon took place. After the exile to Babylon Jechonias begat Sal...