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Who was Uzziah's father?
Matthew's genealogy moves directly from Joram to Ozias, while the other passages identify Amaziah as Uzziah's father and include intervening generations.
- Textual conflict
- Interpretive tension
- The passages pull in different directions, but the conflict depends on how their wording, scope, or narrative context is read.
- Importance
- Minor
- A local detail in a story, chronology, or inventory.
Matthew omits demonstrable generations, but direct biological conflict depends on reading begat as immediate fatherhood in a compressed genealogy.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
Matthew places Ozias immediately after Joram in the genealogy
And Asa begat Josaphat; and Josaphat begat Joram; and Joram begat Ozias;
Matthew 1:8
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:Matthew 1
Uzziah's father is Amaziah with three generations after Joram
And Solomon’s son was Rehoboam, Abia his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son, Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son, Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son,
1 Chronicles 3:10-12
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:1 Chronicles 3