Gen 2:4, 5:1, Isa 53:8, Luk 3:23-38, Rom 9:5 | TSK | STEP

which.The real father of Joseph was Jacob (Mt 1:16); but having married the daughter of Heli, and being perhaps adopted by him, he was called his son, and as such was entered in the public registers; Mary not being mentioned, because the Hebrews never permitted the name of a woman to enter the genealogical tables, but inserted her husband as the son of him who was, in reality, but his father-in-law. Hence it appears that Matthew, who wrote principally for the Jews, traces the pedigree of Jesus Christ from Abraham, through whom the promises were given to the Jews, to David, and from David, through the line of Solomon, to Jacob the father of Joseph, the reputed or legal father of Christ; and that Luke, who wrote for the Gentiles, extends his genealogy upwards from Heli, the father of Mary, through the line of Nathan, to David, and from David to Abraham, and from Abraham to Adam, who was the immediate "son of God" by creation, and to whom the promise of the Saviour was given in behalf of himself and all his posterity. The two branches of descent from David, by Solomon and Nathan, being thus united in the persons of Mary and Joseph, Jesus the son of Mary re-united in himself all the blood, privileges, and rights, of the whole family of David; in consequence of which he is emphatically called "the Son of David."

of Nathan.

2Sa 5:14; 1Ch 3:5; 14:4; Zec 12:12

was the son of Jesse.

Ru 4:18-22; 1Sa 17:58; 20:31; 1Ki 12:16; 1Ch 2:10-15; Ps 72:20

Isa 11:1,2; Mt 1:3-6; Ac 13:22,23

which was the son of Obed.

Nu 1:7; 2:3; 7:12; 1Ch 2:11,12

Nahshon, Salma, Boaz.

Aminadab.

Ru 4:19,20; 1Ch 2:9,10

Aminadab, Ram, Hezron.

Mt 1:3,4

Esrom.

Ge 46:12; Nu 26:20,21

Hezron.

Phares.

Ge 38:29; Ru 4:12; 1Ch 2:4,5; 9:4

Pharez.

of Juda.

Ge 29:35; 49:8

Judah.

Mt 1:2

Judas.

which was the son of Isaac.

Ge 21:3; 25:26; 1Ch 1:34; Mt 1:2; Ac 7:8

Thara.

Ge 11:24-32; Jos 24:2; 1Ch 1:24-28

Terah, Nahor, Reu, Serug, Peleg, Eber, Shelah.

Saruch.

Serug, Reu. Phalec.

Peleg. Heber.

Eber. Sala.

Salah.

Cainan.This Cainan is not found in the Hebrew text of any of the genealogies, but only in the Septuagint; from which, probably, the evangelist transcribed the register, as sufficiently exact for his purpose, and as more generally suited to command attention. (See on Ge 11:12.) It may here be remarked, that though some of the same names occur here, from Nathan downwards, as in Joseph's genealogy, yet there appears no sufficient evidence that the same persons were intended, different persons often bearing the same name.

Sem.

Ge 5:32; 7:13; 9:18,26,27; 10:21,22; 11:10-26; 1Ch 1:17

Shem.

Noe.

17:27; Ge 5:29,30; 6:8-10,22; 7:1,23; 8:1; 9:1; Eze 14:14; Heb 11:7

1Pe 3:20; 2Pe 2:5

Noah.

Mathusala.

Ge 5:6-28; 1Ch 1:1-3

Methuselah, Mahalaleel.

which was the son of Adam.

Ge 4:25,26; 5:3