And Asaph the father of Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, and Joram the father of Uzziah. Matthew skips three kings between Joram and Uzziah (Ahaziah, Joash, and Amaziah — see 2 Kings 8–14), likely to produce the symmetrical fourteen-generation structure he announces in verse 17. The omissions communicate that Matthew is writing a theological genealogy, not an exhaustive chronicle. The choice of which names to include and exclude is itself an interpretive act: the point is not completeness but the pattern of covenant faithfulness that runs through an imperfect royal line toward the Messiah who will fulfill what every king before him could not.

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