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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. |
Subject: How many generations betw Exodus-Solomon |
Bible Note: Hi Jim, Thanks for your honesty. I can appreciate the case you're making, while still not seeing it as anywhere near conclusive. I simply don't believe, that many just "want it to be so". While that's a possiblity- albeit remote- considering the list of scholars over the past 2000 years, I don't see it as probable! Do you really think they just glossed over this fact? What I see is that Rahab was not only commended for her faith in Heb. 11:31, but she is testament to the immense grace of God. No one is beyond the reaches of this (Rom. 5:20). How unlike human conception to think that God-incarnate would come from a lineage of a prostitute! Reg Grant, in his work "Literary Structure of the Book of Ruth" makes this comment: "Who would have expected the Lord to include the illegitimate product of a sinful union of a Jew and an ostensibly Canaanite prostitute in the messianic line? The historical parallels actually serve to heighten the contrasts. Matthew 1:5 states that Salmon (Ruth 4:21) was the husband of Rahab (presumably the Canaanite prostitute of Josh. 2:1). Rahab was probably the “mother” of Boaz in the sense of being his ancestress, since she lived in Joshua’s day, 200 or 300 years before Ruth and Boaz. This connection with Rahab is especially interesting in light of the Judah/Tamar story. While Rahab was indeed a prostitute, the Joshua narrative emphasized her courageous service to the spies and her inclusion within the covenant community (Josh. 6:25; cf. Heb. 11:31). Her character was more nobly presented than that of the scheming Tamar. Again the reader is forced to admit that he would probably not have picked either Rahab or her descendant Boaz as participants in the covenant promises, much less as contributors to the messianic line." [Bibliotheca Sacra : A Quarterly Published by Dallas Theological Seminary] Speaking the Truth in love, BradK |