-Seleucid,
Seleucus:
Seleucid was a Hellenistic.dynasty
founded by Seleucus I after the death of Alexander
the Great. It ruled much of Asia
Minor from B.C.E.
312 to 64.
Sihon:
king of the Amorites at Heshbon;
circa.B.C.E.
1400.
Sihon, a powerful king of
cabal.mentality
who had attacked the Moabites
and had taken all their land and also refused passage to the Hebrews
who had just come out of 430 years of captivity to Egypt. They asked Sihon
permission
to quietly pass through his land on their way to settle beyond the borders
of king Sihon's domain.
Instead Sihon came out and attacked them. He should have been kind. He
was slain in the battle, his army routed
and his dominions divided among Israel:.Numbers
21:21-26; Deuteronomy 2:24-37.
-42
generations: leading to Emmanuel:.Matthew
1:17.
For example, in the first
division, Abraham is the first and
David
the last, making together fourteen.
The names below are in Matthew,
a book of the New Testament. The names are somewhat different in spelling
to the same name is the Old Testament. This is because the Old Testament
was written in
Hebrew and the New Testament in the Greek language.
Many of the men below were
kings of ancient Israel
and Judah.