17*, which gives the readers a point of view for what they have read. It consists of three groups of fourteen generations. If we follow v. 17*, there are fourteen generations from Abraham through David. From Solomon through Jechoniah there are another fourteen generations, but from Shealtiel to Jesus there are only thirteen. Does that mean that Jechoniah or David is to be counted twice? Yet the suggestion that we should do this only with Jechoniah at the beginning of the third group of fourteen but