From Abraham to David

Matthew’s genealogy begins with him: “Abraham was the father of Isaac.” Called Abram until God renamed him. Ishmael was born when he was eighty-six, Isaac when he was a hundred.

• Wife
  SarahAlso called: Sarai · Lived 127 years (Gen 23:1)

  Called Sarai until God renamed her Sarah. She bore Isaac to Abraham “in his old age, at the very time God had promised.”

  Gen 11:29 · Gen 17:15
• Wife
  Hagar

  Sarai’s Egyptian maidservant, whom Sarai gave to Abram “to be his wife.”

  Gen 16:1 · Gen 16:3

Born to Sarah in her old age. He was forty when he married Rebekah and sixty when their twins, Esau and Jacob, were born.

• Wife
  Rebekah

  Granddaughter of Abraham’s brother Nahor; she came from Paddan-aram to marry Isaac and bore him twins.

  Gen 22:23 · Gen 24:15

The younger twin, renamed Israel. He had twelve sons and a daughter by four women; this tree follows Leah’s fourth son, Judah — “Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers.”

• Wife
  Leah

  Laban’s elder daughter and Jacob’s first wife. When Judah was born she said, “This time I will praise the LORD.”

  Gen 29:16

Leah’s fourth son. His first three sons were born to the daughter of a Canaanite named Shua; Matthew goes on: “Judah was the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar.”

• Mother of his sons
  Tamar

  The widow of Judah’s son Er. She bore Judah twin sons, and Matthew names her in the genealogy.

  Gen 38:6 · Gen 38:27 · Matt 1:3

The twin who was born first: “You have broken out first!” The genealogy at the end of Ruth begins with him: “Now these are the generations of Perez.”

A son of Perez, named among Jacob’s family who went down to Egypt. 1 Chronicles names his sons Jerahmeel, Ram and Caleb; the tree follows Ram.

Ruth, 1 Chronicles and Matthew have Ram between Hezron and Amminadab; Luke’s genealogy names two men there instead, Admin and Arni.

His daughter Elisheba, the sister of Nahshon, married Aaron.

1 Chronicles calls him “a leader of the descendants of Judah”; in Numbers he leads Judah’s divisions in the wilderness.

Luke spells his name Sala. Only Matthew names the mother of his son Boaz: Rahab.

• Mother of his sons
  Rahab

  Named only by Matthew, as the mother of Boaz. By one view she is Rahab of Jericho, who hid Joshua’s spies; by another, a different woman of the same name. Matthew does not say.

  Matt 1:5

A man of Bethlehem from the clan of Elimelech, Naomi’s husband. At the city gate he bought what had belonged to Elimelech and took Ruth as his wife.

• Wife
  Ruth

  A Moabite woman, the widow of Mahlon, who came to Bethlehem with her mother-in-law Naomi. Matthew names her: “Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth.”

  Ruth 1:4 · Ruth 4:13 · Matt 1:5

The neighbor women named him, saying, “A son has been born to Naomi.” “He became the father of Jesse, the father of David.”

Of Bethlehem. 1 Samuel says he “had eight sons” and David was the youngest; 1 Chronicles names seven, with “David seventh,” and their sisters Zeruiah and Abigail.

Jesse’s youngest son, anointed by Samuel. He became king at thirty and reigned forty years, seven and a half in Hebron and thirty-three in Jerusalem.

• Wife
  Michal

  Saul’s daughter, given to David in marriage. “Michal the daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death.”

  1 Sam 18:27 · 2 Sam 6:23
• Wife
  Abigail

  The widow of Nabal of Carmel, who became David’s wife. Her son is called Chileab in 2 Samuel and Daniel in 1 Chronicles.

  1 Sam 25:3 · 1 Sam 25:42
• Wife
  Ahinoam

  Ahinoam of Jezreel, the mother of David’s firstborn son.

  1 Sam 25:43 · 2 Sam 3:2
• Wife
  Eglah2 Sam 3:5 · 1 Chr 3:3
• Wife
  Bathsheba

  Formerly the wife of Uriah the Hittite; Matthew calls her “Uriah’s wife.” Her first son by David died; 1 Chronicles names four sons born to her: Shimea, Shobab, Nathan and Solomon.

  2 Sam 11:3 · 2 Sam 12:24 · 1 Chr 3:5
• Mother of his sons
  Maacah

  The daughter of King Talmai of Geshur.

  2 Sam 3:3 · 1 Chr 3:2
• Mother of his sons
  Haggith2 Sam 3:4 · 1 Kgs 1:11
• Mother of his sons
  Abital2 Sam 3:4 · 1 Chr 3:3