Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ruth 4:18

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ruth 4:18 - 4:18

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ruth 4:18 - 4:18

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4:1 - 4:1
4:2 - 4:2
4:3 - 4:3
4:4 - 4:4
4:6 - 4:6
4:7 - 4:7
4:9 - 4:9
4:10 - 4:10
4:11 - 4:11
4:12 - 4:12
4:13 - 4:13
4:17 - 4:17
4:18 - 4:18

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. There was an interval of three hundred eighty years between Salmon and David. It is evident that whole generations are omitted; the leading personages only are named, and grandfathers are said, in Scripture language, to beget their grandchildren, without specifying the intermediate links.