Matthew 1:17

So all the generations, from Abraham to David, are fourteen generations. And from David to the transmigration of Babylon, are fourteen generations: and from the transmigration of Babylon to Christ are fourteen generations.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.

In Context

16And Jacob begot Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.

18Now the generation of Christ was in this wise. When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child, of the Holy Ghost.

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Cross References

Jeremiah 27:20Which Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon did not take, when he carried away Jechonias the son of Joakim the king of Juda, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the great men of Juda and Jerusalem.

Matthew 11:2Now when John had heard in prison the works of Christ: sending two of his disciples he said to him:

Matthew Henry on Matthew 1:2-18

Matthew to John The one half of our undertaking upon the New Testament It may be proper to apprise the reader that the volume to which this preface was originally prefixed included the Acts of the Apostles, which in the present edition will commence the second volume, in order to secure a more equal division of the New Testament—the commentary on the remaining books being less extended than the author contemplated .—Ed . is now, by the assistance of divine grace, finished, and presented to the reader, who, it is… Read the whole commentary →

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