Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Matthew 1:15
And Eliud begat Eleazar; and Eleazar begat Matthan; and Matthan begat Jacob;
[See comments on Mt 1:13].
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
1) “And Eliud begat Eleazar;” (Elioud de egennesen ton Eleazar) “Thereafter Eliud. begat Eleazar;” thirty-seventh generation of the Faith-line of the Abrahamic and Davidic covenant of promise. The family line of David continues but with the royal line rejected, cut off, in the dust. Of this Eleazar as son of Eliud we have no record. Eleazar means “whom God aids,” and the name was a prominent Old Testament name.
2) “And Eleazar begat Matthan;” (Eleazar de egennesen ton Matthan) “Then Eleazar begat Matthan;” thirty-eighth generation of the Faith-line of promise of the Abrahamic and Davidic covenants. The name Matthan means “gift.” Of the man in the royal line of David rejected, now in captivity, nothing further is recorded.
3) “And Matthan begat Jacob;” (Matthan de egennesen ton lakob) “Then Matthan begat Jacob,” thirty-ninth generation from the Abrahamic promise of Faith-line and of the Davidic covenant. The name Jacob means “supplanter.” It too was a prominent Old Testament name, repeatedly used of the son of Isaac, seed of Abraham. But of this Jacob, son of Matthan, in the royal line of David through Babylon, no record is further given.
Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary
15 And Eliud begat Eleazar; and Eleazar begat Matthan; and Matthan begat Jacob;
Ver. 15. And Eliud begat Eleazar, &c. ] These might be private persons, some of them, as Joseph and Mary were; it being the care and the endeavour of the Herods, and those before, that held the Jews in subjection, to suppress as much as might be the posterity of David, at least to keep them in a low condition; forasmuch as it was a certain and received truth among that people, that “Messiah the Prince” Dan 9:25 should shortly come from that family. And this was that which held up the fainting hearts of the good people of those sad times (when prophecy failed them, and prosperity too), they looked for the “Desire of all nations,” for the consolation of Israel, having little else to relieve them, for the external means, unless it were that , that echo heard in the temple, they tell us of, which served them for an oracle; and the miracle of the pool of Bethesda granted by God to strengthen them in the true worship of God, under the persecution of Antiochus and other tyrants, till the days of John Baptist and the Lord Christ.