Matthew 1:2
Abraham begat Isaac. Isaac begat Jacob. Jacob begat Judas and his brethren.
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren;
In Context
1The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
3Judas begat Phares and Zara, of Thamar. Phares begat Esrom. Esrom begat Aram.
Cross References
Genesis 21:2And she conceived, and childed a son in her eld (age), in the time wherein God before-said to her. (And she conceived, and bare a son in her old age, at the time which God had spoken of before to her.)
Genesis 29:32And Leah childed a son conceived (or And Leah conceived, and bare a son), and she called his name Reuben, and said, The Lord hath seen my meekness; now mine husband shall love me.
Genesis 35:16Soothly Jacob went out from thence, and he came in the beginning of summer to the land that leadeth to Ephratah; in which land when Rachel travailed in child bearing, (And Jacob went out from there, and at the beginning of summer he came to the way that leadeth to Ephrath; in which land when Rachel struggled, or laboured, to survive while giving birth,)
Genesis 49:8Judah, thy brethren shall praise thee, thine hands shall be in the nolls of thine enemies; the sons of thy father shall worship thee. (Judah, thy brothers shall praise thee, thy hands shall be upon the necks of thy enemies; the sons of thy father shall bow before thee.)
Joshua 24:2And Joshua spake thus to the people, The Lord God of Israel saith these things, Your fathers dwelled at the beginning beyond the flood Euphrates, (that is), Terah, the father of Abraham and Nachor, and they served alien gods. (And Joshua spoke to the people thus, The Lord God of Israel saith these things, Long ago your forefathers lived on the other side of the Euphrates River, that is, Terah, and his sons Abraham and Nachor, and they served foreign, or other, gods.)
1 Chronicles 1:34Forsooth Abraham begat Isaac; whose sons were Esau, and Israel. (And Abraham begat Isaac; whose sons were Esau, and Jacob.)
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 →