And Zorobabel begat Abiud; and Abiud begat Eliakim; and Eliakim begat Azor;
Ver. 13. And Zorobabel begat Abiud] St Luke saith, Rhesa: hence the diversity of number and names. Matthew descends by the posterity of Abiud; Luke, of Rhesa, down to Joseph.
And Abiud begat Eliakim, and Eliakim begat Azor, &c.] These lived in those calamitous times of the people of God after the Captivity, and were not kings and captains, as being held under by other nations; but law givers they were, as Jacob prophesied, and principal men among that people, "till Shiloh came,"Genesis 49:10 .