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Matthew 1:8 Explained in Context

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Verse 8. And Asa begat Josaphat; and Josaphat begat Joram; and Joram begat Ozias;

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Continues the royal list through Josaphat, Joram, and Ozias.

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  • Matthew 1:1–1:17

Matthew 1:8 continues the royal list through Josaphat, Joram, and Ozias; within Matthew 1:1–1:17, it contributes to this controlling movement: Matthew opens by naming Jesus as Messiah, son of David and Abraham, and arranges Israel's ancestry in three remembered sequences that include women, kings, exile, and Joseph.

Why It Needs Context

Continues the royal list through Josaphat, Joram, and Ozias. Its responsible force depends on Matthew 1:1–1:17; it supplies genealogy, sequence, quotation, dialogue, image, response, or transition rather than a complete standalone teaching.

Read Matthew 1:2–17 together

Why these verses belong together: The ancestry names form one crafted genealogical sequence whose omissions, women, exile, and three-fourteen summary must be interpreted together.

Verse 2. Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren;

Verse 3. And Judas begat Phares and Zara of Thamar; and Phares begat Esrom; and Esrom begat Aram;

Verse 4. And Aram begat Aminadab; and Aminadab begat Naasson; and Naasson begat Salmon;

Verse 5. And Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse;

Verse 6. And Jesse begat David the king; and David the king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias;

Verse 7. And Solomon begat Roboam; and Roboam begat Abia; and Abia begat Asa;

Verse 8. And Asa begat Josaphat; and Josaphat begat Joram; and Joram begat Ozias;

Verse 9. And Ozias begat Joatham; and Joatham begat Achaz; and Achaz begat Ezekias;

Verse 10. And Ezekias begat Manasses; and Manasses begat Amon; and Amon begat Josias;

Verse 11. And Josias begat Jechonias and his brethren, about the time they were carried away to Babylon:

Verse 12. And after they were brought to Babylon, Jechonias begat Salathiel; and Salathiel begat Zorobabel;

Verse 13. And Zorobabel begat Abiud; and Abiud begat Eliakim; and Eliakim begat Azor;

Verse 14. And Azor begat Sadoc; and Sadoc begat Achim; and Achim begat Eliud;

Verse 15. And Eliud begat Eleazar; and Eleazar begat Matthan; and Matthan begat Jacob;

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

Verse 17. 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.

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Biblical text

King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006

eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society

USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.

Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and thought-unit coverage.

Exact location: Matthew 1:1–1:17, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus

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Greek textual evidence

The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition

Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos

Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010

Supports: Greek wording and punctuation control without treating one edition as a complete apparatus.

Exact location: SBLGNT official text file data/sblgnt/text/Matt.txt, Matthew 1:1–1:17

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