Cross references
Matthew 1:5
Salmon was the father of Boaz by Rahab,
Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth,
Obed the father of Jesse,
Matthew 1:5 has 10 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 9 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Ruth 1:16–17 (11 votes) and Hebrews 11:31 (10 votes). 19 other verses point back to it. It links with 9 other books, from Numbers 1 to James 2.
Which verses does Matthew 1:5 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Ruth 1:16–1711 votes
But Ruth replied: “Do not urge me to leave you or to turn from following you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you live, I will live; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God. Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD punish me, and ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me.”
- Hebrews 11:3110 votes
By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies in peace, did not perish with those who were disobedient.
- James 2:257 votes
In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute justified by her actions when she welcomed the spies and sent them off on another route?
- Joshua 6:22–256 votes
Meanwhile, Joshua told the two men who had spied out the land, “Go into the house of the prostitute and bring out the woman and all who are with her, just as you promised her.” So the young spies went in and brought out Rahab, her father and mother and brothers, and all who belonged to her. They brought out her whole family and settled them outside the camp of Israel. …
- Ruth 1:46 votes
who took Moabite women as their wives, one named Orpah and the other named Ruth. And after they had lived in Moab about ten years,
- Ruth 1:22–2:46 votes
So Naomi returned from the land of Moab with her daughter-in-law Ruth the Moabitess. And they arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest. Now Naomi had a relative on her husband’s side, a prominent man of noble character from the clan of Elimelech, whose name was Boaz. …
- Ruth 4:215 votes
Salmon was the father of Boaz, Boaz was the father of Obed,
- 1 Chronicles 2:11–125 votes
Nahshon was the father of Salmon, and Salmon was the father of Boaz. Boaz was the father of Obed, and Obed was the father of Jesse.
- Joshua 2:1–224 votes
Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim, saying, “Go, inspect the land, especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there. And it was reported to the king of Jericho: “Behold, some men of Israel have come here tonight to spy out the land.” …
- Luke 3:323 votes
the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Sala, the son of Nahshon,
Which verses point to Matthew 1:5?
The 10 strongest of 19.