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Ruth 4:19

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Hezron was the father of Ram, Ram was the father of Amminadab,

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and Hezron begat Ram, and Ram begat Amminadab,

KJV

And Hezron begat Ram, and Ram begat Amminadab,

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This verse in Ruth 4

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
And Hezron begat Ram,.... Called Aram by the Septuagint, and so in Mat 1:3, and Ram begat Amminadab; in whose name there is no variation, neither in the book of Chronicles nor in the Evangelists; both these, as well as the next, were born in Egypt.

This site's exposition

Now these are the generations

on Ruth 4:18-20

These are the generations is the formula Genesis uses ten times, from the heavens and the earth at 2:4 to Jacob at 37:2, and this verse is where it next falls in Scripture. Ten names run from Pharez to David, the same count as Adam to Noah in Genesis 5 and Shem to Abraham in Genesis 11. Nahshon fixes the middle of the list at the exodus, since Numbers 1:7 and 7:12 make him prince of Judah in the wilderness and Exodus 6:23 makes him brother in law to Aaron. From Nahshon to David is four names for something near four centuries, and Albert Barnes says the difficulties in this list remain unsolved; whether a Hebrew genealogy of this kind names every father or selects among them is where readers differ.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

8 Therefore the kinsman said unto Boaz, Buy it for thee. Boaz calls a court immediately. It is probable he was himself one of the elders (or aldermen) of the city; for he was a mighty man of wealth.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

these are the generations of Pharez--that is, his descendants. This appendix shows that the special object contemplated by the inspired author of this little book was to preserve the memory of an interesting domestic episode, and to trace the genealogy of David.

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A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Hezron begat Ram - He is called Aram here by the Septuagint, and also by St. Matthew, Mat 1:3.

The words behind it

8 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Matthew 1:4

    Ram was the father of Amminadab, Amminadab the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon the father of Salmon.

    it leads to

    • Numbers 1:7

      from Judah, Nahshon son of Amminadab;

    • Numbers 7:12

      On the first day Nahshon son of Amminadab from the tribe of Judah drew near with his offering.

    • 1 Chronicles 2:10–12

      Ram was the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab was the father of Nahshon, a leader of the descendants of Judah.

    • Numbers 2:3

      On the east side, toward the sunrise, the divisions of Judah are to camp under their standard:

  • Through

    Luke 3:33

    the son of Amminadab, the son of Admin, the son of Arni, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah,

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 2:4–5

      Tamar, Judah’s daughter-in-law, bore to him Perez and Zerah. Judah had five sons in all.

    • 1 Chronicles 9:4

      Uthai son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, a descendant of Perez son of Judah.

    • Ruth 4:12

      And may your house become like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of the offspring the LORD will give you by this young woman.”

    • 1 Chronicles 2:9–10

      The sons who were born to Hezron: Jerahmeel, Ram, and Caleb.

Where this verse is studied

About Ruth

Ruth and Boaz, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Ruth and Boaz, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Joshua, Judges, Ruth and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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