Matthew 1:6
verse of the Bible
Matthew 1:6 is the sixth verse of the first chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. The verse is part of the section where the genealogy of Joseph, the legal father of Jesus, is listed.
Content
The text of the King James Version reads:
And Jesse begat David the king;
and David the king begat Solomon
of her that had been the wife of Urias;
The World English Bible translates the passage as:
Jesse became the father of King David.
David became the father of Solomon
by her who had been the wife of Uriah.
For a collection of other versions see BibleHub Matthew 1:6.
Analysis
This verse marks the end of the first third of the genealogy as the list and the transition from the list of descendants of Abraham to the list of the Kings of Judah. This change is marked by the reference to "David the king." Robert H. Gundry also sees the reference to "David the king", an Old Testament turn of phrase, as an attempt to present him as a prototype for "Jesus the king."
Allison suggests that the key to understanding the composition of the genealogy is the device known as 'gematria', where 'names are given numerical value' (cf. Revelation 13:18). The name of "David" in Hebrew consists of only three consonants, which the numerical value amounts to fourteen: d + w + d = 4 + 6 + 4, so that as David's name is the fourteenth on the list, that he is given the title 'king', and that 'David' occurs both before and after the genealogy, it can be inferred that 'David' is the structural key to Matthew 1:2–17.
The genealogy of Luke 3 and Matthew diverge at this point.
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