The following is a history of the lineage given by the gospel of Matthew of Jesus through Joseph to Abraham.

Not much is known of the lives of most of the fathers mentioned herein. To make this chart I had to improvise a few times. For instance, to make the time between Jacob and Zerubbabel I took the date of Jacobs death to the time that Zerubbabel worked on the temple and averaged it out between all of the fathers listed to get the 70 years for each. I did this on the time from Zerubbabel to Jesus assuming Jesus being born on the year 0 too.

It was notable to me that some claim there are names missing because of the long years between the fathers. I note that the term “my father” or “my son” does not mean there cannot be names left out. They all claimed Abraham as their father, think about it. When the term “begot” or “begat” is used, that is meant to be definitive, but not my father or my son. Matthew used “begot” in his rendition of the lineage.

I also note that the Old Testament(Kings and Chronicles) disagrees with Matthew as Joram did not beget Uzziah. The Old Testament tells us that Joram/Jehoram(the same person at times and at other times there was two of them) begot Ahaziah who begot Joash who begot Amaziah who begot Uzziah/Azariah(the same person). The other malfunction is between Josiah and Jeconiah/Jehoiachin(the same person). Eliakim/Jehoiakim(the same person) is the son of Josiah and Jeconiah/Jehoiachin(the same person) is Jehoiakim’s son.

These glitches do not make the Bible incorrect though, what it does is make you do your homework. The lineage is not broken by leaving someone out. The lineage is still there and unbroken as the Bible does still show this, you just have to look for it. This is why Paul wrote to study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needs not be ashamed, rightly discerning the Word of Truth.

Legend: the first number is the date of birth of Abram, Isaac and Jacob. The second number is how old they are when they beget their son. The third number is the date of their death. All three are based on the first year of existence being 4000.

The second set of numbers after Jacob is the average amount of years per individual. The  years being the year that first number assigns to them. Example: Judah, assigned 70 years as average life span until his son Perez is born. Subtract that from Jacobs death and you get 1677. Perez is then assigned the same 70 years until his son is born making his last number 1607, etc. This same process is given at 50 years apiece later.

When you get to the kings, the years in between are based on the years each reigned as king as taken from Kings and Chronicles.

2000   1500   1000    500    0
Abram/Abraham  2046 100 1871
————— 175
Isaac  1954 60 1774
—————– 180
Jacob  1894 1747
—————- 147
Judah  70 1677
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Perez  70 1607
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Hezron  70 1537
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Ram  70 1467
————–
Amminadab  70 1397
—————
Nahshon  70 1327
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Salmon  70 1257
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Boaz  70 1187
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Obed  70 1117
————-
Jesse  70 1047
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David  77 970  The year of his death according to Thomas Nelson
———-              Thomas Robinson has it as 965
Solomon  40 930  The year of his death
———                     Thomas Robinson has it as 926

Rehoboam   930 41 913   at age 41 he starts his reign and dies at year 913
17          These are years reigned
Abijah  913 910  Year started reign and ended etc.
3 Years reigned etc.
Asa/Asaph  910 870
41
Jehoshaphat  872 847
25
Joram/Jehoram  848 841

8
* There is a 49 year break here and Ahaziah, Joash, Amaziah are left out.

Uzziah/Azariah  792 740

52
10 year overlap here as Uzziah had leprosy

Jotham  750 736
16
Ahaz  735 720
16
Hezekiah  726 697
29
Manasseh  697 642
55
Amon/Amos  642 640
2
Josiah  640 609
* Eliakim/Jehoiakim, is the son of Josiah and reigns 11 years, Jehoiachin/Jeconiah is Jehoiakims son.
Zedekiah/Mattaniah is Jehoiakim’s brother. So a generation is skipped here.

Jeconiah/Jehoiachin 598
* Zedekiah/Mattaniah is Jeconiah/Jehoiachin’s uncle who reigns for 11 years under Nebuchadnezzar 598 to 586, Jerusalem is destroyed.

Shealtiel  38 560

Zerubbabel  38 522  Temple rebuilding time

Abiud  50 472

Eliakim  50 422  Nehemiah’s time 444

Azor  50 372

Zadok  50 322

Achim  50 272

Eliud  50 222

Eleazar  50 172

Matthan  50 122

Jacob  50 72

Joseph  50 22
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Jesus  0 33
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Take some time to think of all of the ramifications this chart brings to mind.

Know your Bible.