Matthew 1:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren;

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 7:8
And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs.
Hebrews 11:17-18
By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, …
Genesis 25:26
And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them.
Genesis 21:2-5
For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. …
Genesis 46:8-27
And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn. …

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David Egypt Genealogy Generals, Distinguished Hebrew Israel Jesus, the Christ Joseph

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-17)

Concerning this genealogy of our Saviour, observe, I. The title of it. It is the book (or the account, as the Hebrew word sepher, a book, sometimes signifies) of the generation of Jesus Christ, of his ancestors according to the flesh; or, It is the narrative of his birth. It is Biblos Geneseos — a book of Genesis. The Old Testament begins with the book of the generation of the world, and it is its…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

2. Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren--Only the fourth son of Jacob is here named, as it was from his loins that Messiah was to spring (Ge 49:10).