Matthew 1:6

The line reaches King David, the high point of the genealogy, yet recalls his sin with "Uriah's wife." It magnifies both the royal promise and God's mercy toward sinners.

Cross-references · 24

• 1 Kgs 15:5because David did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and didn’t turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
• 1 Sam 17:12Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons. The man was an elderly old man in the days of Saul.
• 2 Sam 12:24–25David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her, and lay with her. She bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. Yahweh loved him;
• 2 Sam 11:26–27When Uriah’s wife heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.
• 1 Sam 16:1Yahweh said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite; for I have provided a king for myself among his sons.”
• 2 Sam 23:1Now these are the last words of David. David the son of Jesse says, the man who was raised on high says, the anointed of the God of Jacob, the sweet psalmist of Israel:
• 1 Sam 16:11–13Samuel said to Jesse, “Are all your children here?” He said, “There remains yet the youngest. Behold, he is keeping the sheep.” Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and get him, for we will not sit down until he comes here.”
• 1 Sam 17:58Saul said to him, “Whose son are you, you young man?” David answered, “I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.”
• 1 Chr 11:41Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,
• 1 Chr 3:5and these were born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea, Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon, four, of Bathshua the daughter of Ammiel;
• Ruth 4:22and Obed became the father of Jesse, and Jesse became the father of David.
• 1 Chr 14:4These are the names of the children whom he had in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,
• Rom 8:3For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;
• 1 Chr 28:5Of all my sons (for Yahweh has given me many sons), he has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of Yahweh’s kingdom over Israel.
• 1 Kgs 1:28–31Then king David answered, “Call Bathsheba in to me.” She came into the king’s presence and stood before the king.
• 1 Sam 22:8that all of you have conspired against me, and there is no one who discloses to me when my son makes a treaty with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you who is sorry for me, or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as it is today?”
• 1 Kgs 1:11–17Then Nathan spoke to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, “Haven’t you heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith reigns, and David our lord doesn’t know it?
• 1 Chr 2:15Ozem the sixth, David the seventh;
• Acts 13:22–23When he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he also testified, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’
• 2 Sam 23:39and Uriah the Hittite: thirty-seven in all.
• 2 Sam 11:3David sent and inquired after the woman. One said, “Isn’t this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, Uriah the Hittite’s wife?”
• Isa 11:1A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.
• Ps 72:20This ends the prayers by David, the son of Jesse.
• 1 Sam 20:30–31Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse rebellious woman, don’t I know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother’s nakedness?

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