Matthew 1:7
Solomon begat Roboam. Roboam begat Abia. Abia begat Asa.
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
And Solomon begat Roboam; and Roboam begat Abia; and Abia begat Asa;
In Context
6Jesse begat David the king. David the king begat Solomon, of her that was Urias’ wife.
8Asa begat Josaphat. Josaphat begat Joram. Joram begat Ozias.
Cross References
1 Kings 14:31And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the city of David. And the name of his mother was Naamah (the) Ammonite; and Abijam, his son, reigned for him.
1 Chronicles 3:10Soothly the son of Solomon was Rehoboam, whose son Abia begat Asa; and Jehoshaphat, the father of Jehoram + 3:10 Also known as Joram., was born of this Asa, (or and Asa begat Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat begat Jehoram);
2 Chronicles 12:1And when the realm of Rehoboam was made strong and strengthened, he forsook the law of the Lord, and all Israel with him. (But when Rehoboam’s kingdom was made strong and established, he abandoned the Law of the Lord, and all Israel with him.)
2 Chronicles 14:1And Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David; and Asa, his son, reigned for him. In whose days the land rested in peace ten years (or In whose days the land was at peace for ten years).
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 →