Zerubbabel the father of Abiud, Abiud the father of Eliakim, and Eliakim the father of Azor.
Concerning this genealogy of our Saviour, observe, I. The title of it. It is the book (or the account, as the Hebrew word sepher, a book, sometimes signifies) of the generation of Jesus Christ, of his ancestors according to the flesh; or, It is the narrative of his birth. It is Biblos Geneseò„s - a book of Genesis.
Commenting on Matthew 1:1-17
And Zorobabel begat Abiud,.... The children of Zorobabel are said in Ch1 3:19, to be Meshullam, and Hananiah, and Shelomith their sister, but no mention is made of Abiud: he seems to be the same with Meshullam the eldest son, who might have two names; nor is this unlikely, since it was usual, especially about the time of the Babylonish captivity, for men to have...
Verse 13. No specific Barnes text on this verse.