Someone tell me.... Matthew chapter one talks about three fourteen generations. My questions is, in the third one, how does it make fourteen generations from Jehoiachin to Jesus Christ.? I counted it and i see only thirteen..... Tell me where i am wrong....
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Here is the short and sweet of it:
"It's simply a matter of how you count. You can count each period as fourteen generations first by extending from Abraham to David; secondly, by extending from David to the deportation to Babylon in the time of Jechonias; and thirdly, by extending from Jechonias to Christ. Matthew was aware that he was being inclusive or doubling up on one generation in each case."
From the Forerunners Weblog
"It's simply a matter of how you count. You can count each period as fourteen generations first by extending from Abraham to David; secondly, by extending from David to the deportation to Babylon in the time of Jechonias; and thirdly, by extending from Jechonias to Christ. Matthew was aware that he was being inclusive or doubling up on one generation in each case."
From the Forerunners Weblog
