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Who begat whom?

Posted on 15 Mar 2008 In: Who begat whom?

Son or grandson?

Arpachshad’s son was shelah (born when arpachshad was 35)
- Gen 11:12

Arpachshad’s grandson was shelah
(cainan was arpachshad’s son, and shelah’s father)
- Luke 3:35-36

Posted on 15 Mar 2008 In: Who begat whom?

“I’m my own grandpa…”

Jehoshaphat’s son is joram,
joram’s son is ahaziah,
ahaziah’s son is joash,
joash’s son is amaziah,
amaziah’s son is azariah,
azariah’s son is jotham
- 1 Chron 3:11,12

But joram’s son is uzziah,
and uzziah’s son is jotham
- Matt 1:8,9

Posted on 15 Mar 2008 In: Who begat whom?

The mother of abijah

Maachah, the daughter of absalom
- 2 Chron 11:20

Michaiah, the daughter of uriel
- 2 Chron 13:2

Posted on 15 Mar 2008 In: Who begat whom?

Michal barren or fertile?

Michal (daughter of saul) "had no child unto the day of her death."
- 2 Sam 6:23

Yet the "five sons of michal the daughter of saul", are mentioned in
- 2 Sam 21:8