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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: Jim Estes I would like to see if it would be possbible to look at this from a diferrent angle. Let's please put down the "Great Divines" as part of the discussion just for a minute. The Bible is the plenary inspired word of God - every word is not dictated to the writers word for word, but the actual words themselves are the scriptures God-breathed by God the author. 2 Peter 1:20 and 2 Timothy 3:16. That being said we have three New Testament writers speaking about Rahab the Harlot. Mathew 1:5 says Rahab is in Jesus lineage. Hebrews 11:13 says Rahab the Harolt had faith. James 2:25 says Rahab was justified by her works. All three writers are referring to a Rahab from the OT, and there is only one Rahab in the OT. The word Rahab appears as Rachab in the OT in Joshua, with a "c" in the Hebrew. The word Rahab appears in Hebrews and James as Rhaab borrowed from the Septuagint. The word Rahab appears in Mathew as Rhachab with an "h" and a "c", and is a derivative of the Hebrew Rachab, and is not from the Septuagint. The translators settled on Rahab for all texts. The time lines may not be something we can ever resolve. There are mysteries in the Bible, they belong to God. Both Rahab and Ruth took the God of the Hebrews to be thier God, nowhere does it say they went back to paganism. Why can it not be that they converted to Judaism and are therefore truly Jews? Paul says being Jewish is a circumsion of the heart, on that basis alone, they qualify to be in Jesus lineage - by God's sovereign will. This is just my humble opinion. Just a worthless son. blessings abound, bowler We may not have to place our trust in the Great Divines, but we can place our trust in the same thing they did, the authority of the Bible - Sola Scriptura. |