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Nave's Topical Bible Entries: Genealogies of Jesus

GENEALOGY

  • General scriptures concerning: NUM 1:18; 2CH 12:15; NEH 7:5
  • Of no spiritual significance: MAT 3:9; 1TI 1:4; TIT 3:9
  • From Adam to Noah: GEN 4:16-22; 5; 1CH 1:1-4; LUK 3:36-38
  • To Abraham: GEN 11:10-32; 1CH 1:4-27; LUK 3:34-38
  • To Jesus: MAT 1:1-16; LUK 3:23-38
  • Of the descendants of Noah: GEN 10
  • Of Nahor: GEN 22:20-24
  • Of Abraham, by his wife Keturah: GEN 25:1-4; 1CH 1:32,33
  • Of Ishmael: GEN 25:12-16; 1CH 1:28-31
  • Of Esau: GEN 36; 1CH 1:35-54
  • Of Jacob: GEN 35:23-26; EXO 1:5; 6:14-27; NUM 26; 1CH 2:9
  • Of Pharez to David: RUT 4:18-22
  • Of the Jews who returned from the captivity: EZR 7:1-5; 8:1-15; NEH 7; 11:12
  • Of Joseph: MAT 1; LUK 3:23-38

JESUS, THE CHRIST (Genealogy and History Sections)

History

  • Genealogy of: MAT 1:1-17; LUK 3:23-38
  • The angel Gabriel appears to Mary (at Nazareth): LUK 1:26-38
  • Mary visits Elisabeth (at Hebron?): LUK 1:39-56
  • An angel appears to Joseph concerning Mary (at Nazareth): MAT 1:18-25
  • Birth of (at Bethlehem): LUK 2:1-7
  • Angels appear to the shepherds: LUK 2:8-20
  • Magi visit (at Bethlehem): MAT 2:1-12
  • Circumcision of: LUK 2:21
  • Presented in the temple: LUK 2:21-38
  • Flight into and return from Egypt: MAT 2:13-23
  • Is immersed by John in the Jordan River: MAT 3:13-17; MRK 1:9-11; LUK 3:21-23
  • Temptation of: MAT 1:11; MRK 1:12,13; LUK 4:1-13

Divinity Of (Selected - Relevant to Lineage)

  • As Jehovah: ISA 40:3; with MAT 3:3
  • Jehovah our righteousness: JER 23:5,6; with 1CO 1:30
  • Son of God: LUK 1:35; JHN 1:14,18

Death - Design Of

  • GEN 3:15; ISA 53:1-12; DAN 9:24,26; GAL 4:4,5

Prophecies Concerning (see PROPHECY topic below)

DAVID

Genealogy

  • RUT 4:18-22; 1SA 16:11; 17:12; 1CH 2:3-15; MAT 1:1-6; LUK 3:31-38

Key Facts for This Study

  • Chosen of God: PSA 78:70
  • Receives God's promise that his seed should reign forever: 2SA 7:12-16; 23:5; 1CH 17:11-14; 2CH 6:16; PSA 89:3,4; 132:11,12; ACT 15:16; ROM 15:12
  • Interpretation and fulfillment of this prophecy: ACT 13:22,23
  • Solomon born to David and Bath-sheba: 2SA 12:24,25
  • Children born at Hebron: 2SA 3:2-5; 1CH 3:4
  • Children born at Jerusalem: 2SA 5:14-16; 1CH 3:5-8; 14:4-7
  • Descendants of: 1CH 3
  • Jesus called son of: MAT 9:27; 12:23; 15:22; 20:30,31; 21:9; 22:42; MRK 10:47,48; LUK 18:37,39
  • David as prophet: 2SA 23:2-7; 1CH 28:19; MAT 22:41-46; ACT 2:25-38; 4:25
  • Type of Christ: PSA 2; 16; 18:43; 69:7-9

Prophecies Concerning David and His Kingdom

  • NUM 24:17,19; 2SA 7:11-16; 1CH 17:9-14; PSA 89:19-37; ISA 9:7; 16:5; 22:20-25; JER 23:5; 33:15-26; LUK 1:32,33

A Prophetic Name for Christ

  • JER 30:9; EZK 34:23,24; 37:24,25; HOS 3:5

ABRAHAM

Divine Call and Covenant

  • Divine call of: GEN 12:1-3; JOS 24:3; NEH 9:7; ISA 51:2; ACT 7:2,3; HEB 11:8
  • Canaan given to: GEN 12:1,7; 15:7-21; EZK 33:24
  • God's covenant with: GEN 15; 17:1-22; MIC 7:20; LUK 1:73; ROM 4:13; 15:8; HEB 6:13,14; GAL 3:6-18,29; 4:22-31
  • Faith of: GEN 15:6; ROM 4:1-22; GAL 3:6-9; HEB 11:8-10,17-19; JAS 2:21-24
  • How regarded by his descendants: MAT 3:9; LUK 13:16,28; 19:9; JHN 8:33-40

MARY (Mother of Jesus)

  • MAT 1:16; LUK 1:26-38; 2:5-19
  • Visits her cousin Elisabeth: LUK 1:39-56
  • Present at the cross: JHN 19:25-27
  • Committed to the care of John: JHN 19:27
  • Lives with the disciples in Jerusalem: ACT 1:14
  • Prophecies concerning: ISA 7:14; LUK 2:35

JOSEPH (Husband of Mary)

  • MAT 13:55; MRK 6:3; MAT 1:18-25; LUK 1:27
  • His genealogy: MAT 1:1-16; LUK 3:23-38
  • An angel appears and testifies to the innocence of his betrothed: MAT 1:19-24
  • Lives at Nazareth: LUK 2:4
  • Belongs to the town of Bethlehem: LUK 2:4
  • Goes to Bethlehem to be enrolled: LUK 2:1-4
  • Jesus born to: MAT 1:25; LUK 2:7
  • Presents Jesus in the temple: LUK 2:22-39
  • Warned in a dream to escape to Egypt: MAT 2:13-15
  • Warned in a dream to return to Nazareth: MAT 2:19-23
  • Three ancestors of Joseph share the name Joseph: LUK 3:24,26,30

SOLOMON

  • Son of David by Bath-sheba: 2SA 12:24; 1KI 1:13,17,21
  • Named Jedidiah by Nathan the prophet: 2SA 12:24,25
  • An ancestor of Joseph: MAT 1:6
  • Succeeds David to the throne of Israel: 1KI 1:11-48; 2:12; 1CH 23:1
  • Prophecies concerning: 2SA 7:12-16; 1KI 11:9-13; 1CH 17:11-14; 28:6,7; PSA 132:11
  • A "type" of Christ: PSA 45:2-17

NATHAN (Son of David)

  • Son of David and Bath-sheba: 2SA 5:14; 1CH 3:5; 14:4
  • (Note: This is the Nathan through whom Luke traces Jesus' genealogy, LUK 3:31)

NATHAN (The Prophet)

  • His message to David concerning the building of a temple: 2SA 7:1-17; 1CH 17:1-15
  • Reproves David for adultery with Bath-sheba and murder of Uriah: 2SA 12:1-15
  • Gives Solomon the name Jedidiah: 2SA 12:25
  • Assists Bath-sheba in securing succession for Solomon: 1KI 1:10-14,22-27
  • Assists in anointing Solomon: 1KI 1:32-45
  • Kept the chronicles: 1CH 29:29; 2CH 9:29

JACOB

  • Son of Isaac, twin brother of Esau: GEN 25:24-26
  • Ancestor of Jesus: MAT 1:2
  • God confirms the covenant of Abraham to: GEN 28:13-22; 35:9-15; 1CH 16:13-18
  • Prophetic benediction upon Judah: GEN 49:8-12
  • (Note: Jacob father of Joseph in MAT 1:16 is a different Jacob)

JUDAH

  • Son of Jacob: GEN 35:23
  • The ancestor of Jesus: MAT 1:2,3; REV 5:5
  • Prophecies concerning the tribe: GEN 49:10
  • Accorded the birthright forfeited by Reuben: 1CH 5:1,2; 28:4; PSA 60:7

ZERUBBABEL

  • Also called SHESHBAZZAR
  • Directs the rebuilding of the altar and temple after return from Babylon: EZR 3:2-8; 4:2,3; 5:2,14-16; HAG 1:12-14
  • Leads the emancipated Jews back from Babylon: EZR 1:8-11; 2; NEH 12
  • Appoints the Levites to inaugurate the rebuilding of the temple: EZR 3:2-8
  • Prophecies relating to: HAG 2:2; ZEC 4:6-10
  • Called ZOROBABEL in the genealogy of Joseph: MAT 1:12; LUK 3:27

PROPHECY (Messianic Section)

Old Testament Messianic Passages Quoted in the New Testament

  • GEN 12:3; 18:18; 22:18 with ACT 3:25; GAL 3:8
  • GEN 17:7,19; 22:16,17 with LUK 1:55,72-74
  • DEU 18:15,18 with ACT 3:22,23
  • PSA 2:1,2 with ACT 4:25,26
  • PSA 2:7 with ACT 13:33; HEB 1:5; 5:5
  • PSA 16:8-11 with ACT 2:25-28,31
  • PSA 22:1 with MAT 27:46; MRK 15:34
  • PSA 45:6,7 with HEB 1:8,9
  • PSA 110:1 with MAT 22:44; MRK 12:36; LUK 20:42; ACT 2:34,35; HEB 1:13
  • PSA 110:4 with HEB 5:6
  • PSA 118:22,23 with MAT 21:42; MRK 12:10,11; LUK 20:17; ACT 4:11
  • PSA 132:11,17 with LUK 1:69; ACT 2:30
  • ISA 7:14 with MAT 1:23
  • ISA 9:1,2 with MAT 4:15,16
  • ISA 9:7 with DAN 7:14,27; LUK 1:32,33
  • ISA 11:10 with ROM 15:12
  • ISA 40:3-5 with MAT 3:3; MRK 1:3; LUK 3:4-6
  • ISA 42:1-4 with MAT 12:17-21
  • ISA 49:6 with LUK 2:32; ACT 13:47,48; 26:23
  • ISA 53:1 with JHN 12:38; ROM 10:16
  • ISA 53:3-6 with ACT 26:22,23
  • ISA 53:4-6,11 with 1PE 2:24,25
  • ISA 55:3 with ACT 13:34
  • JER 31:31-34 with HEB 8:8-12; 10:16,17
  • MIC 5:2 with MAT 2:5,6; JHN 7:42
  • ZEC 9:9 with MAT 21:4,5; JHN 12:14,15
  • ZEC 12:10 with JHN 19:37
  • ZEC 13:7 with MAT 26:31,56; MRK 14:27,50
  • MAL 3:1 with MAT 11:10; MRK 1:2; LUK 7:27
  • MAL 4:5,6 with MAT 11:13,14; 17:10-13; MRK 9:11-13; LUK 1:16,17

INHERITANCE

  • Provisions for inheritance under Levirate marriages: GEN 38:7-11; NUM 36:6-9; DEU 25:5-10; RUT 3:1-8; 4:7-17
  • Daughters may inherit: NUM 27:6-11
  • Firstborn rights: DEU 21:15-17
  • Property must stay within tribe: NUM 36:6-9; EZK 46:16-18
  • Figurative: PSA 37:29; ACT 20:32; 26:18; ROM 8:16,17; EPH 1:11-14; TIT 3:7; HEB 1:14

MARRIAGE (Levirate Section)

  • Levirate (the brother required to marry a brother's widow): GEN 38:8,11; DEU 25:5-10; RUT 4:5; MAT 22:24; MRK 12:19-23; LUK 20:28
  • Betrothal a quasi-marriage: MAT 1:18; LUK 1:27
  • Wives among the Israelites must be Israelites: EXO 34:16; DEU 7:3,4; 1CH 23:22; EZR 9:1,2,12; NEH 10:30; 13:26,27; MAL 2:11

MATTHAT

  • Father of Heli, and ancestor of Joseph: LUK 3:24
  • Father of Jorim, and ancestor of Joseph: LUK 3:29
  • (Note: Two different individuals named Matthat in Luke's genealogy)

MESSIAH

  • See JESUS (Nave's cross-reference)