Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Oun Kwon" <kwonbbl AT gmail.com>]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:47 PM, Steve Miller <smille10 AT sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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> [Steve Miller] Amminadab was not tribal leader, but his son Nahshon.
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OJK: You are right. I've missed it.

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> [Steve Miller] I don't see the problem. Nahshon was a leader at the
> beginning of the Exodus. His son, Salmon, would have been of age to marry to
> marry Rahab at the end of the 40 years in the wilderness.
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OJK: Exactly. I don't see the problem. The problem is when someone
writes and says the biblical statement is contradictory, I got
confused and I wanted to have it clarified once for all.

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> Matthew 1 does not skip any generations between Abraham & David because v17
> says "_ALL_ the generations from Abraham to David are 14 generations." After
> David, Matthew skips generations. He does not use the word "ALL" to describe
> the generation counts after David.
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OJK:  Moreover the phrase 'all the genertions [are]' is something I
like to take to govern all the subsequent clauses, as I put Mt 1:17
this way:

1:17    Thus, all the generations [are]:

                from Abraham to David
                        — fourteen  generations;
                and from David until the Babylónian exile
                        — fourteen generations;
                and from the Babylonian exile until the Messiah
                        — fourteen generations.

Of course, whether skips or not, 'generation' here in this verse is
and cannot be "one king = one generation".

> -Steve Miller
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Thank you all,

Oun Kwon.