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1 | How many generations betw Exodus-Solomon | Matt 1:17 | Zor | 207108 | ||
1 Kings 6:1 records that King David's son Solomon built the temple 480 years after Israel came up out of Egypt. I need to reconcile this with Matthew 1, which lists only five generations from Salmon (who married Rahab of Jericho right after the Exodus) to King David: Salmon, Boaz, Obed, Jesse, David? 480 years seems too long for five generations, so I suspect I am missing a clarification elsewhere in scripture. | ||||||
2 | How many generations betw Exodus-Solomon | Matt 1:17 | Jim Estes | 207154 | ||
Hi Zor, Your question is one of doing the math. We start out with 480 years. Solomon began to build the temple in the 4th year of his reign. That takes us down to 476 years. His father David was 30 years old when he became King and his reign was 40 years. This takes us down to 406 years. Salmon was born during the 40 years in the wilderness. At the time of the battle of Jericho he could be any age up to 39. Let’s say that both Salmon and Rehab were both 20 years old (it is likely that Rehab was older). Deducting 20 years from the 40 years in the wilderness takes us down to 386 years. In other words, from the birth of Salmon to the birth of David is 386 years. Therefore, how old, on average, were Salmon, Boaz, Obed and Jesse when their sons were born? 386 years divided by 4 gives us an average age of 96.5 years. This is certainly possible. The timeline would be close to this: Exodus to birth of Salmon: 20 years, Battle of Jericho: 40 years, birth of Boaz: 116.5 years, birth of Obed: 213 years, birth of Jesse: 309.5 years, birth of David: 406 years, David becomes King: 436 years, Solomon becomes King: 476 years, and begins to build the Temple: 480 years. What is not possible is that Rehab, the Harlot, is the same Rehab of Matthew 1 (Matthew does not identify his Rahab as either the harlot or a Canaanite). Rahab, the Harlot, is not the ancestor of Jesus Christ. Not only would it contradict many other scriptures, but it would be a physical impossibility as Rahab, the Harlot, would have been well past the age of bearing children. Jim |
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3 | How many generations betw Exodus-Solomon | Matt 1:17 | DocTrinsograce | 207157 | ||
Hi, Jim... Regarding Rahab mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus in Matthew 1:5... John Chrysostom wrote, "For this end he hath mentioned Ruth also and Rachab, the one an alien, the other an harlot, that thou mayest learn that He came to do away with all our ills." John Gill wrote, "And from Rahab sprung the Messiah, another instance of a Gentile in the genealogy of Christ." Adam Clarke wrote, "Four women are mentioned in this genealogy: two of these were adulteresses, Tamar and Bathsheba; and two were Gentiles, Rahab and Ruth, and strangers to the covenant of promise." William Smith wrote, "[Rahab] became the wife of Salmon and the ancestress of the Messiah." Matthew Henry wrote, "There are four women, and but four, named in this genealogy; two of them were originally strangers to the commonwealth of Israel, Rachab a Canaanitess, and a harlot besides, and Ruth the Moabitess." John Wesley wrote, "...Matthew adds the names of those women also, that were remarkable in the sacred history." David Guzik wrote, "She [Rahab] was a Gentile prostitute, for whom God took extraordinary measures to save from judgment and her lifestyle of prostitution." Robert Jamieson wrote, "[Rahab] an ancestress of the Saviour." J. W. McGarvy and Phillip Pendleton wrote, "...she [Rahab] had been a heathen and a harlot of Jericho." Orville James Nave wrote, "[Rahab,] an ancestor of Joseph of Nazareth." P. G. Mathew wrote, "Rahab and her entire family were saved and became citizens of Israel, as we are told in Joshua 6:25... we find that she married a prince of the tribe of Judah by the name of Salmon (Matthew 1:5)." On what basis are we to judge that all of these men were in error? In Him, Doc |
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4 | How many generations betw Exodus-Solomon | Matt 1:17 | stjohn | 207159 | ||
I'd say that pretty well clenches it for me. :-) | ||||||