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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: Please explain the significance of the number of generations. (14) |
Bible Answer: I wonder if the Holy Spirit is the name missing 14th generations to Jesus, since immediately after the geneology ends, Matthew says that Mary was found with child by the Holy Spirit. The divison into three groups covers three periods. The pre-kingdom, then the Davidic Kingdom Period, the post-kingdom Exile period. The Rise and Fall of the Old Testament Church, which cuminates in the resoration in a new way of The Davidic Kingdom with Christ One of the Church Fathers, Jerome, suggested the 42 generations also corresponded allegorically to the 42 encampments of the Israelites in the journey from Egypt to the promised land. Emmaus |