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Really good piece of work.

There is one detail that does not seem apparent to me though - your mention that Amaziah was 'buried in a separate location from the rest of the Davidic line' and 'buried in a separate location from the rest of the Davidic line'.

2Kings14:20 NKJV seems to imply otherwise in saying that Amaziah 'was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the City of David' and that he 'rested/slept with his fathers' (vs 22, which according to the BSB refers to Amaziah rather than his son Ahaziah). Is there some textual/translation issue behind your comments here?

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Regarding the comment that Matthew seems to have a lot of 3's going on, another one (implicit) is 3 x 7=21 generations from Adam to Abraham (as per Luke 3, following the LXX inclusion of 2nd Kainan). Though perhaps it could be said that there are still 3x7 generations to Abraham in the MT text if beginning with God (Lk 3:38) rather than Adam.

See Smith & Udd (2019) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-685AsaGuXVgFENpMH0FNUL23_pwCRfm/view

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