Genealogy of Jesus According to Matthew.

  9 and Uzziah begat Jotham [a good king like Uzziah, his father]; and Jotham begat Ahaz [one of Judah's worst kings]; and Ahaz begat Hezekiah [a royal, godly king, like David];

  10 and Hezekiah begat Manasseh [an evil king, like Ahaz, but, being punished of God, he repented]; and Manasseh begat Amon [an evil king like his father Manasseh; who waxed worse and worse till his people conspired against him and slew him]; and Amon begat Josiah [a good king, much like Hezekiah];

  11 and Josiah begat [Jehoiakim, and Jehoiakim begat] Jechoniah and his brethren [So far as is known, Jechoniah had no literal brothers. We may, therefore, take the word "brethren" as meaning his royal kindred; viz.: his father Jehoiakim, and his uncles, Jehoahaz and Zedekiah, the three sons of Josiah], at the time [probably about B. C. 599] of the carrying away [into captivity] to Babylon.

  12 And after the carrying away to Babylon Jechoniah

[If we do not count David twice, as above indicated (as a patriarch and a king), we must count Jechoniah twice (as a king who became a citizen). But if we count Jehoiakim as properly included in the phrase "his brethren" at verse 11, we need count no one twice] begat Shealtiel [Luke calls Shealtiel the son of Neri Jechoniah may have been the natural, and Neri the legal, father of Shealtiel-- Deuteronomy 25:5-10 ; Matthew 22:24 . Or Luke's Shealtiel and Zerubbabel may have been different persons from the Shealtiel and Zerubbabel of Matthew]; and Shealtiel begat Zerubbabel [the governor of Jerusalem, who rebuilt the temple, as told by Ezra, Haggai, and Zechariah];

  12 And after the carrying away to Babylon Jechoniah

Zerubbabel begat Abiud; and Abiud begat Eliakim; and Eliakim begat Azor;

  14 and Azor begat Sadoc; and Sadoc begat Achim; and Achim begat Eliud;

  15 and Eliud begat Eleazar; and Eleazar begat Matthan; and Matthan begat Jacob;

  16 And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus

[the name Jesus means Saviour], who is called Christ. [The word "Christ" is a title. It means the anointed One. Prophets, priests, and kings were anointed; Jesus was all three.]

  14 and Azor begat Sadoc; and Sadoc begat Achim; and Achim begat Eliud;

  15 and Eliud begat Eleazar; and Eleazar begat Matthan; and Matthan begat Jacob;

  16 And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus

  17 So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David unto the carrying away to Babylon fourteen generations; and from the carrying away to Babylon unto the Christ fourteen generations. [The Jews, to whom Matthew wrote his Gospel, were extremely fond of such groupings and divisions as this.]