Matthew 1:5
Salmon begat Booz, of Rachab. Booz begat Obed, of Ruth. Obed begat Jesse.
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
And Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse;
In Context
4Aram begat Aminadab. Aminadab begat Naasson. Naasson begat Salmon.
6Jesse begat David the king. David the king begat Solomon, of her that was Urias’ wife.
Cross References
Joshua 2:1Therefore Joshua, the son of Nun, sent from Shittim two men, spyers in huddles, and said to them, Go ye, and behold ye the land, and the city of Jericho. Which went, and entered into the house of a woman whore, Rahab by name, and rested at her. (And so Joshua, the son of Nun, secretly sent out two spies from Shittim, and said to them, Go ye, and look ye over the land, and the city of Jericho. And they went, and entered into the house of a whore-woman, Rahab by name, and stayed with her.)
Ruth 1:4and they took wives of Moab, of which wives one was called Orpah, the tother Ruth. And the sons dwelled there ten years (or And the sons lived there for ten years),
Ruth 1:22Therefore Naomi came with Ruth of Moab, the wife of her son, from the land of her pilgrimage, and turned again into Bethlehem, when barley was reaped first. (And so Naomi came with Ruth the Moabite, her son’s wife, from the land where she had lived, and returned to Bethlehem with her, when the barley was first harvested.)
1 Chronicles 2:11And Nahshon begat Salma; of whom Boaz was born. (And Nahshon begat Salma; and Salma begat Boaz.)
Luke 3:32that was of Jesse, that was of Obed, that was of Booz, that was of Salmon, that was of Naasson,
James 2:25In like manner, whether also Rahab, the whore, was not justified of works, (or In like manner, was not Rahab, the whore, justified by works), and received the messengers, and sent them out by another way?
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 →