and Ram the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon the father of Salmon,
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 Aram begat Aminadab,.... Which, with what follows in this verse, exactly agrees with the genealogical account in Rut 4:19. . Matthew 1:5 mat 1:5 mat 1:5 mat 1:5And Salmon begat Booz of Rachab,.... That Salmon begat Boaz, is affirmed in Rut 4:21 but it is not there said, nor any where else in the Old Testament, as here, that he begat him of Rahab...
Verse 4. No specific Barnes text on this verse. . (k) "begat Naason" (l) "begat Salmon"