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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... 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 |