Holy Scripture

1 Kings 14:21

A church father on this verse
“Our Lord Jesus Christ is genealogized, although being without genealogy according to deity, he entered into genealogy for you. And he is genealogized not similarly by the evangelists, which troubled many who encountered the writing. For Matthew, starting from Abraham, genealogizes him and continues until he says, "Now…”
Origen of Alexandria, 3th c. — HOMILIES ON THE GOSPEL OF LUKE 28.2

Source: Septuagint

Original

21And Rehoboam son of Solomon ruled over Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in the city Jerusalem, which the Lord chose to put his name there out of all the tribes of Israel: and his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

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In context

— 1 Kings 14:21 —

22And Rehoboam did evil in the sight of the Lord; and he provoked him in all the things which their fathers did in their sins which they sinned.

23And they built for themselves high places, and pillars, and planted groves on every high hill, and under every shady tree.

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