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He was the son of Nahshon, married "Rachab" of Matthew 1:5 (possibly Rahab, of Jericho), and Boaz (or Booz) was their son. Thus, according to the biblical genealogies, Salmon is the patrilineal great-great-grandfather of David. Salmon is mentioned in 1 Chronicles (1 Chronicles 2:10–11), the Book of Ruth (Ruth 4:20,21), Matthew 1:4-5, and Luke ...
Nahshon and his father from the 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle. According to the Hebrew Bible, Nahshon was a son of Amminadab, descendant in the fifth generation of Judah, and brother-in-law of Aaron. [2] [3] [4] According to the Greek New Testament, [5] he is also the father-in-law of Rahab.
The passage carries the genealogy through Aram, Amminadab, Nahshon, and Salmon of which only Nahshon, the brother-in-law of Aaron, is a notable figure. According to the Old Testament it was to Nahshon that Moses gave control of the Tribe of Judah, and it is thus from him that many of the Kings of Judah are descended. [citation needed]
The book of Genesis records the descendants of Adam and Eve.The enumerated genealogy in chapters 4, 5, and 11, reports the lineal male descent to Abraham, including the age at which each patriarch fathered his named son and the number of years he lived thereafter.
The son of Salmon, [7] Boaz was a wealthy landowner of Bethlehem in Judea, and relative of Elimelech, Naomi's late husband. [8] He notices Ruth, the widowed Moabite daughter-in-law of Naomi, a relative of his (see family tree), gleaning grain in his fields. He soon learns of the difficult circumstances her family is in and Ruth's loyalty to ...
This is an index of family trees on the English Wikipedia. It includes noble, politically important, and royal families as well as fictional families and thematic diagrams. This list is organized according to alphabetical order.
Adam [a]: Eve [a]: Cain [a]: Awan: Abel [b]: Seth [c]: Azura [d]: Enoch [e]: Enosh [f]: Noam [g]: Irad [h]: Berekeal: Kenan [i]: Mualeleth [g]: Mehujael [h]: Dinah [g ...
Fowler sees instructions in this verse are to aid in the memorization of Matthew's version of the genealogy, not the historical list of decedents. By tradition the first period from Abraham to David always had fourteen names, so the author of Matthew simply cut unneeded names from the other two sections to create an easily memorized triple ...