February 10, 2013 – 1 Kings 15

When you go through the genealogies of Matthew and Luke, you will see that they are a lot different. I actually called “Catholic Answers” about this. Part of the explanation was that “father” was used not only as a direct father, but as grandfather, great grandfather, and so on. There could be many generations between two in the line, but the term father might still be used to show their relationship. Here we see it played out and I would have missed it if I hadn’t been told the thing on genealogies. Abijam is the son of Rehoboam (14:31) But when it talks about his reign it says “as was the heart of David HIS FATHER”. We know that it was Rehoboam that was his father and David was actually his great grandfather I believe, but there were no words for great grandfather, just like there were no words for cousin.