8And Asa begat Josaphat; and Josaphat begat Joram; and Joram begat Ozias;
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Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,
Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah. …
And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
And it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel. …
Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years.
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…
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