The Gospel's give us two accounts of Jesus' genealogy. Both Joseph and Mary's family lines are traced, and the book of Luke actually traces Jesus' genealogical record back through Adam (the first human being).

Prophecies -

• (God speaking to Abraham) "I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you." (Genesis 12:3)
• "Then the LORD said, 'Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do? Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all nations on earth will be blessed through him.'" (Genesis 18:17-18)
• (God speaking to David) "When your days are over and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring to succeed you, who will come from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom. He is the one who will build a house for my Name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever." (2^nd Samuel 7:12-13)
• (God spaeking to David) "Your house and your kingdom will endure forever before me; your throne will be established forever." (2^nd Samuel 7:16)
• "You said, 'I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David my servant, 'I will establish your line forever and make your throne firm through all generations.''" (Psalms 89:3-4)
• (God speaking of David) "I will establish his line forever, his throne as long as the heavens endure." (Psalms 89:29)
• "Once for all, I have sworn by my holiness-- and I will not lie to David-- that his line will continue forever and his throne endure before me like the sun;" (Psalms 89:35-36)
• "The LORD swore an oath to David, a sure oath that he will not revoke: 'One of your own descendants I will place on your throne-' (Psalms 132:11)
• "Here I will make a horn grow for David and set up a lamp for my anointed one." (Psalms 132:17)
• "Then Isaiah said, 'Hear now, you house of David! Is it not enough to try the patience of men? Will you try the patience of my God also? Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.'" (Isaiah 7:13-14)
• "Of the increase of his government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on David's throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever. The zeal of the LORD Almighty will accomplish this." (Isaiah 9:7)
• "I will place over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he will tend them; he will tend them and be their shepherd. I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David will be prince among them. I the LORD have spoken." (Ezekiel 34:23-24)

Fulfillment - "A record of the genealogy of Jesus Christ the son of David, the son of Abraham:" (Matthew 1:1)

Prophecies -

• "Adam lay with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, 'God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.'" (Genesis 4:25)
• "He also said, 'Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the slave of Shem.'" (Genesis 9:26)
• "Then God said, 'Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.'" (Genesis 17:19)
• "But God said to him, 'Do not be so distressed about the boy and your maidservant. Listen to whatever Sarah tells you, because it is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.'" (Genesis 21:12)
• (Spoken to Isaac) "I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed" (Genesis 26:4)
• (Spoken to Jacob) "Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring." (Genesis 28:14)
• "The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs and the obedience of the nations is his." (Genesis 49:10)
• "and though Judah was the strongest of his brothers and a ruler came from him, the rights of the firstborn belonged to Joseph" (1^st Chronicles 5:2)
• "Through the offspring the LORD gives you by this young woman, may your family be like that of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah."

• "A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear fruit." (Isaiah 11:1)
• "In that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples; the nations will rally to him, and his place of rest will be glorious." (Isaiah 11:10)
• (Spoken to David) "When your days are over and you go to be with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring to succeed you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom. He is the one who will build a house for me, and I will establish his throne forever." (1^st Chronicles 17:11-12)
• "'The days are coming,' declares the LORD, 'when I will raise up to David a righteous Branch, a King who will reign wisely and do what is just and right in the land. In his days Judah will be saved and Israel will live in safety. This is the name by which he will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness.'" (Jeremiah 23:5-6)
• "'The days are coming,' declares the LORD, 'when I will fulfill the gracious promise I made to the house of Israel and to the house of Judah. 'In those days and at that time I will make a righteous Branch sprout from David's line; he will do what is just and right in the land.''" (Jeremiah 33:14-15)
• (Spoken of David) "This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I myself will take a shoot from the very top of a cedar and plant it; I will break off a tender sprig from its topmost shoots and plant it on a high and lofty mountain. On the mountain heights of Israel I will plant it; it will produce branches and bear fruit and become a splendid cedar. Birds of every kind will nest in it; they will find shelter in the shade of its branches. All the trees of the field will know that I the LORD bring down the tall tree and make the low tree grow tall. I dry up the green tree and make the dry tree flourish. 'I the LORD have spoken, and I will do it.'" (Ezekiel 17:22-24)
• "'On that day,' declares the LORD Almighty, 'I will take you, my servant Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel,' declares the LORD, 'and I will make you like my signet ring, for I have chosen you,' declares the LORD Almighty." (Haggai 2:23)

Fulfillment - "Now Jesus himself was about thirty years old when he began his ministry. He was the son, so it was thought, of Joseph,

The son of Heli, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melki, the son of Jannai, the son of Joseph, the son of Mattathias, the son of Amos, the son of Nahum, the son of Esli, the son of Naggai, the son of Maath,

The son of Mattathias, the son of Semein, the son of Josech, the son of Joda, the son of Joanan, the son of Rhesa,

The son of Zerubbabel,

The son of Shealtiel,

The son of Neri, the son of Melki, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son of Elmadam, the son of Er, the son of Joshua, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Simeon,

The son of Judah, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonam, the son of Eliakim, the son of Melea, the son of Menna, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan,

The son of David,

The son of Jesse,

The son of Obed,

The son of Boaz,

The son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon, the son of Amminadab, the son of Ram, the son of Hezron,

The son of Perez,

The son of Judah,

The son of Jacob,

The son of Isaac,

The son of Abraham,

The son of Terah, the son of Nahor, the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah, the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad,

The son of Shem,

The son of Noah, the son of Lamech, the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalalel, the son of Kenan, the son of Enosh,

The son of Seth,

The son of Adam,

(Luke 3:23-37)

Prophecies -

• (God speaking to Abraham) "and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed me." (Genesis 9:26)
• (God speaking to Abraham) "All the land that you see I will give to you and your seed forever." (Genesis 13:15)

Fulfillment - "The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The Scripture does not say 'and to seeds,' meaning many people, but 'and to your seed,' meaning one person, who is Christ." (Galatians 3:16)