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NASB | Matthew 1:17 ¶ So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; from David to the deportation to Babylon, fourteen generations; and from the deportation to Babylon to the Messiah, fourteen generations. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 1:17 ¶ So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen; from David to the Babylonian deportation (exile), fourteen generations; and from the Babylonian deportation to the Messiah, fourteen generations. |
Bible Question: 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. |
Bible Answer: Zor I found something, although it does not answer your question, it has some information that might be valuable to the work you are doing. It is large and you have sift through it for things you might want. I make a disclaimer up front, that it really does not resolve your issue about the generations and whether there was a good time frame. But it does provide a lot of information on both Luke's and Mathew's genealogies and compares them and refutes a lot objections to their veracity. http://www.biblestudymanuals.net/genealogy_of_Jesus.htm I found something else in trying to sift through things - Salmon was Caleb's cousin? Caleb's birth was listed somewhere back in Numbers? Only Caleb and Joshua made it into the promised land? What happened to Salmon? Numbers was written in about 1406 B.C.? Joshua was written in about 1000 B.C.? Salmon did to get into Canaan land, did he, was he a child? Then if that is how he survived to get into Canaan, how did he live 400 or a bit under years to be around to marry Rahab in Joshua which was written about 1000? Am I just triping over the math here? I believe the Bible is the literaly sovereign word of God and I am not questioning His sovereignty in authoring the Bible and getting it right. This is what we call a "textual problem". It may not be resolvable, there are mysteries. I did not mean to add to the dilema for you, just thought you might be interested in the two things I came across about this. And I purposefully did not look every single thing up about Salmon being this or that because it became too much. I stumbled across someone writing about it and took that away wondering about. I refused to provide a link to that because I did not like the tone toward God's holy word. Just a worthless son. blessings abound, bowler |