7 Solomon became the father of Rehoboam. Rehoboam became the father of Abijah. Abijah became the father of Asa.
*Minor differences ignored. Grouped by changes, with first version listed as example.
And Solomon begat Roboam,.... Called Rehoboam, 1-Kings 11:43 of Naamah an Ammonitess, 1-Kings 14:21.
And Roboam begat Abia, sometimes called Abijam, as in 1-Kings 14:31, sometimes Abijah, 2-Chronicles 12:16 and sometimes, as here, Abia, 1-Chronicles 3:10. Him Rehoboam begat of Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom, 1-Kings 15:2 called Michaiah, the daughter of Uriel, 2-Chronicles 13:2. Maachah and Michaiah being the same name; or else she went by two names, as her father did.
And Abia begat Asa, who was a good king; his mother's name is the same with the name of his father's mother; and perhaps it is not his proper mother, but his grandmother who is meant in 1-Kings 15:10. He is wrongly called Asaph in the Persic and Ethiopic versions, and in one copy.
And Solomon begat Roboam; and Roboam begat Abia; and Abia begat Asa; 8. And Asa begat Josaphat; and Josaphat begat Joram; and Joram begat Ozias--or Uzziah. Three kings are here omitted--Ahaziah, Joash, and Amaziah (1-Chronicles 3:11-12). Some omissions behooved to be made, to compress the whole into three fourteens (Matthew 1:17). The reason why these, rather than other names, are omitted, must be sought in religious considerations--either in the connection of those kings with the house of Ahab (as LIGHTFOOT, EBRARD, and ALFORD view it); in their slender right to be regarded as true links in the theocratic chain (as LANGE takes it); or in some similar disqualification.
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