NIV Study Bible, Fully Revised Edition (Anglicised)

With its decades-long legacy of helping readers grasp the Bible’s meaning, the NIV Study Bible embodies the mission of the NIV translation to be an accurate, readable, and clear guide into Scripture. Specifically designed to expand upon the NIV, the NIV Study Bible’s editorial team crafts that same accuracy and clarity into every study note.

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• Over 21,000 bottom-of-the-page study notes, with icons to make important information easy to spot

• Over 125 topical articles, 16 pages of full-colour maps, the full NIV concordance, and subject note indexes enable even deeper study

• Sixty-six book introductions and outlines along with six section introductions provide valuable background information for each book of the Bible

• In-text maps, charts, diagrams, and illustrations visually clarify the stories in the Bible

• Complete text of the accurate, readable, and clear New International Version (NIV) in British English

1:3-6pp — Ru 4:18-22

1:7-11pp — 1Ch 3:10-17

1 This is the genealogy a of Jesus the siah b the son of David, a the son of ham: b

² Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, d Jacob the father of Judah and brothers, e ³ Judah the father of Perez and rah, whose mother was Tamar, Perez the father of Hezron, Hezron the father of Ram, ⁴ Ram the father of Amminadab, Am min a dab the fa ther of shon, Nahshon the father of Salmon, ⁵ Salmon the father of Boaz, w mother was Rahab, g B oaz the fa ther of Obed, w mother was Ruth, Obed the father of Jesse, ⁶ and Jesse the father of King Da David was the fa ther of Sol o whose mother had been Uri wife, i

⁷ Solomon the father of Rehobo Rehoboam the father of Abijah, Abijah the father of Asa, Asa the father of Jehoshaphat, ther of or a comparison of Matthew’s genealogy see note on Lk 3:23–38. e types of people (including tiles) mentioned in this genealogy reveal the broad se who make up the people of God as well A Messianic title (see Introduction: ents; Purpose; see also note on 9:27) found several this Gospel (in 1:20 it is not a Messianic title). the Davidic covenant (see 2Sa 7:5–16 and note Because Matthew was writing primarily it was important to identify Jesus in this way. the Abrahamic covenant (see Ge 12:2–3; 15:9–21; In Matthew’s genealogy ve women 5), Bathsheba “Solomon, whose mother 6) and, of course, Mary (v. 16). All ere in some sense on the margins of society. of them were Gentiles (Tamar, Rahab and Ruth). was probably an Israelite (1Ch 3:5) but was closely with the Hittites because of Uriah, her Hittite including them (contrary to custom) in his genealogy, thew indicates at the very outset of his Gospel grace is not limited to the people of Israel. Also ve of these women were associated, rightly with suspicions of sexual impropriety, Matthew that the Messiah’s genealogy is not limited to Father-in-law of Aaron (Ex 6:23). See notes on v. 3; Heb 11:31; Jas

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