Biblical Genealogy (Full Series)

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CHAPTERS:
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:00:56 - Adam to David
00:19:25 - David to Daniel (Monarchy Period)
00:42:34 - Second Temple Period
00:46:55 - Jesus
VIDEOS I MENTION:
Biblical Family Tree (Basic Version)
• Biblical Family Tree
Introduction to the Bible:
• Introduction to the Bi...
Islamic Prophets Family Tree:
• Islamic Prophets Famil...
Origin of the 12 Tribes of Israel
• Historical Origin of t...
Solomonic Dynasty Family Tree:
• Ethiopian Emperors Fam...
CREDITS:
Charts & Narration by Matt Baker
Animation by Syawish Rehman
Audio editing by Jack Rackam & Ali Shahwaiz
Y-Adam & mtEve by Ettore Mazza
Intro music: "Lord of the Land" by Kevin MacLeod and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution license 4.0. Available from incompetech.com

[@UsefulCharts]

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[@joshuataylor3550]

You present this in such a way that even the most evangelical christian couldn't be upset.

[@RobespierreThePoof]

Hey Matt ... A little tip from the world of archeology. Around 17.40 you report correctly that the Israelites were amost certainly Cainnanites. But you might want to look at the research that discovered Hebrew names written on artifacts in the Nile River valley from the mate bronze age.

[@videopompano4935]

I forgot is useful craft a Christian or not?

[@DanielHarten-vr5qv]

Great video, but I think it's important to mention that the Madai were essentially Persians from Persia, where the three Magi who visited the Christ child originated.

[@321ssteeeeeve]

@@joshuataylor3550 Rather, managed to present recorded history from a chart representation as accurate as possible, in such a way appropriate to a fundamentalist standpoint either that of a Christian, Jew, or a Muslim.

[@shirleytrenche7852]

NO INTRO SONG? That’s my jam 😂

[@UsefulCharts]

Doo Doo doo-doo-doo doo......

[@dhuratadobbins3001]

I know right!!!

[@louplayz752]

Bro’s summarizing the entire Bible in a single video

[@Walpolemike14]

I was passively listening to this and I heard Matt say “Tibni” as Tiffany and I was like there’s no fucking way

[@SAOS451316]

It's an older name than most people think, but not quite that old.

[@davidjairala69]

I think it's just the recording lol

[@Historian_and_cats]

cgp gray reference ?

[@chairmanrosethewisegentleman]

Iwas not even Rebecca it was Ribkah.

[@mykolakozak]

Jonathan

[@sphenodon2016]

I just love this channel. Matt has, almost singlehandedly, revived my interest in religion, and has fuethered my interest in history. It's really cool to see that history is more interesting than fiction in many instances

[@joshuakatherine6251]

It's also interesting to see that history IS fiction in many instances

[@sdastoryteller3381]

Whooo! I just bought the old Chart for super Cheap at the store. thanks for your hard work dude!

[@thomasdixon4373]

Amazing video Matt, I love the depth you go into with your information and research

[@Lightman0359]

The commonality of flood myths could also be simply because major civilizations tend to spring up around rivers, which tend to flood seasonally, and occasionally they flood catastrophically if the winter brought lots of snow to the mountains or the spring rains were unusually heavy [like during El Nino/La Nina type events]

[@kennedybunga399]

I am going to salute you for such an excellent job well done.

[@botanozsan7843]

Just amazing work! Thank you

[@stampedetrail2003]

Thank you! Fascinating stuff!

[@richardjlloyd1]

Splendid video Matt!

[@Uzair_Of_Babylon465]

Great video keep it up you're doing amazing things 😁👍

[@jeankeats3200]

GREAT work! VERY helpful.

[@ChubbyPuppyGeneral77]

Love your videos, and I was wondering if you would consider doing a tutorial on your timeline charts, like the timeline of US History chart.

[@-RONNIE]

Thank you this was a really good video

[@solilos]

Amazing work! Many thanks!

[@TheSignofJonah777]

Just ordered it 😊 thanks

[@pucassu]

❤❤❤ thank you so much

[@marissamolina-fy5so]

Love your channel. ❤️

[@phlezktravels]

Some light viewing. Thanks!

[@dimitrosskrippka2154]

I think Enoch should be somehow marked as well as he was an important character for some authors

[@AverageHistorianProductions]

I've been watching your channel for a while, and I enjoy your videos!

[@soeyeaung9859]

It’s highly informative. As a Christian, I believe that it’s good to listen to the academic perspective on Bible. Thank you.🙏

[@jamellfoster6029]

Thanks for this combined presentation. My 21 year old son notified me of this. He's also a Biblical & History lover like myself.

[@TheMelodicMess]

Awesome as always, Matt. Is it sad that I wish the video were longer? Lol

[@ulrike9978]

The first half is so interesting to me, right after reading Cline´s book on the aftermath of the late bronze age collapse in the region (titled After 1177 BC), because you can kind of see where the archaeological record lines up with the biblical stories (and where it doesn´t). Highly recommend that book, by the way!

[@tteeke]

Great video! Awesome research! One insignificant name error at 39:39? Thank You Much! This is SO helpful for us visual learners! Shalom

[@jakoboka]

Is there a possibility to have an overview of the new poster in which the mistakes of the old poster is highlighted? If have the old ones. I'll give them a marking myselve😊

[@catebligh]

For the baby names alone! Great chart and video!

[@svenhausler8919]

Hey Useful Charts🖐 I really like your videos and posters. Could you also make one about music history and its composers? I would totally buy it.😎

[@cgt3704]

The bible's story is so interesting. Even if a lot of it is more mythological, its still a great tale.

[@hypericacea]

Your mythological

[@rjdsa2418]

*You're ​@@hypericacea

[@hypericacea]

@@rjdsa2418 I am

[@believein1]

Then why is the BIBLE historically, archaeologically, and prophetically accurate?

[@Bert1010]

That’s his opinion lol it’s not fact of it being mythological

[@mediatrix1111]

Just stumbled upon this awesome channel. Do you have any video/chart of the timeline of all the Kings of Israel and Judah, along with all the prophets and their region of prophecy? It would real helpful in understanding the Tanakh better. Thks.

[@321ssteeeeeve]

Nice chart!

[@bobbitibob197]

I wonder if the idea of people representing regions (from a secular perspective) came from older polytheistic religions?

[@kamakiller1145]

Hey Matt, would you consider making a video about the origins of the Ishmaelites like you did with the israelites. Amazing work.

[@JeffreyChadwell]

Your chart shows Amon as the son of Manasseh, but you said "Ahaz." Which one is correct?

[@westwoodnik]

Just a thought...for the biblical composition timeline, would we want to put the chunks with alleged earlier authorships like the Song of Deborah, Song of the Sea etc 'earlier up' on the timeline closer to their supposedly more likely written timeperiod?

[@TheSignofJonah777]

Good to note for the genealogy of Jesus in 1:08:00 that at the time Jews at the time believe you are Jewish based off of the father and today it is the mother. (which makes more sense) So that is a possibility to explain the differences.

[@Cashiyado]

Could I ask why do you think it makes more sense?

[@grantorino2325]

​@@Cashiyado Before DNA testing, there was sometimes doubt over who gatehered a natural son. (Even today, in fact, there are cases where identical-twin brothers who slept with the same woman cannot be distinguished.) 🤔 Whereas determining who brought forth a baby simply involves checking the birth records. 🤱

[@tm10293]

Awesome video! This will definitely be the first chart I buy, I'm not religious but the Bible fascinates me in a mythological/historical sense. Also just curious, where do the drawings representing the sons of Jacob come from?

[@UsefulCharts]

They are from a mosaic on the wall of a synagogue in Jerusalem. The mosaic itself is modern but the imagery associated with each tribe goes back to the medieval period.

[@NovaSeven]

18:55 - Samuel is described as an Ephraimite in 1 Samuel 1:1. It is only in the later Book of 1 Chronicles (6:19-27) that describes him as a Levite. The latter source-writing in the Second Temple Period-probably changed Samuel’s tribe because, by the Chronicler’s time at least, only Levites were recognized as priests.

[@rabidwallaby84]

This is further proof that the scriptures have been modifed & adapted to fit specific beliefs, time periods, and methods of controlling a population.

[@Mr_Sapphire]

Hey can you do the next video. Who would be the emir of Bukhara?

[@iaes3078]

Could you do one on world coins evolution?

[@trinstonmichaels7062]

You spend so much time on these videos love them

[@CrowMagnumMan2024]

Does the chart you are selling contain all of the charts you used in this video ?.......thanks for all your hard work....!!

[@UsefulCharts]

Yes, except for the extended chart of Jesus's family shown at the end, since that is based on tradition rather than the Bible.

[@CrowMagnumMan2024]

@@UsefulCharts Thank you very much...I have purchased it....I think this will be an amazing resource for building the vast outline of the bible into my memory using this new perspective......!!!

[@ThroughTheLensOfAutism]

Can you make a chart of the Harry Potter family tree?

[@UsefulCharts]

There's been several posted on the UsefulCharts subreddit. And there's one in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mmK9omqohL2bmK8

[@ThroughTheLensOfAutism]

@@UsefulCharts Thank you.

[@sahilsingh6048]

Not only abraham bhramah is a link with hinduism , but also Manu and Noah/Nuh myths are also same

[@mattayes]

@9:55, is it true that the Biblical authors wouldn’t know about places outside of Northeastern Africa, Europe, and Western Asia? I was under the impression that long-distance trade was common enough by the Iron Age that they would.

[@kitfisto1827]

Irrelevant. The only 3 males who survived the flood and had children were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. There was only one race after the flood. All racial and ethnic diversity today comes from those 3 men and their wives. It would not matter if later writers knew about others or not. It would not change the fact that they all have the same origin.

[@OrchestrationOnline]

"Aw what a cute kitty! What's his name?" "He's Zerubbabel." "I know he's rubbable, but what's his name?"

[@chimera9818]

It means seed of Babylon

[@OrchestrationOnline]

@@chimera9818 Yeah no kidding,.

[@rdyrdyp]

Also, based on my readings: in the event known as The Visitation, teenage Mary, newly pregnant with Jesus, travels alone to visit her first cousin elderly Elizabeth (I think she was in her 80's) and assist Elizabeth with her pregnancy. Mary stays with Elizabeth until Elizabeth gives birth 3 months later. Mary then returns to her hubby Joseph. Then teenage Mary gives birth to Jesus, alone, without any assistance from anybody, based on her experience at her cousin Elizabeth's delivery. Elizabeth's husband Zakariah was killed in the temple where he worked, by Herod's soldiers, when he refused to tell them where his son John the Baptist was hidden. During The Killing of the Innocents.

[@jmd9402]

not sure if you take requests but if you do, how about "who would be the shogun of japan today?"

[@danielmadar9938]

Thanks

[@robertpenny7180]

@4:00 The extra names look like they have Mesopotamian influence, I wouldn't doubt if they were added from Babylonian myths. The story of Noah has roots from the Epic of Gilgamesh, with Utnapishtim, who scholars believe may be the basis.

[@masterofpuppets444]

Why is zedekiah replaced with Zachariah in your timeline during second period temple?

[@UsefulCharts]

That segment is from a video which still has the typo. The poster version is now correct.

[@michaelbindner9883]

Joseph of Arimathea may have been a relative of Mary, with members of the family, including Jesus, buried in one of two tombs in his property. The ossuaries are in a museum storeroom in Jerusalem. I wonder how adding clay to the skull of that Jesus would look.

[@Lani011]

Interesting

[@davidjairala69]

RE: The Cain and Seth bloodlines, Maybe this has to do with the assimilation of Northern Israel tradition into southern Judean tradition as explained in that one recent video (i think it was about the origin of the 12 tribes) Edit: I have a guess about the Japeth descendant named Javan - the Ancient Greek word for Ionian (Greeks) is transliterated as "Iaones" and the Persian as "Yunan." Javan=Iauan?

[@sadib100]

39:39 You said Ahaz instead of Amon.

[@sadib100]

Why does the chart not show that Abraham and Sarah are half-siblings? The family tree chart in your Timeline of the Bible book states that.

[@djsarg7451]

The genealogies are adequate but not complete. No matter how you read the genealogies, you must concede that there are gaps. Also Biblical Hebrew has a limited vocabulary, with fewer words compared to other languages, such as English. Thus genealogical terms like “son” and “father” have much broader meanings than their corresponding English words. Thus “son” (ben, 1121) means son, grandson, great grandson, and descendent. Similarly, “father” (ab, 1) means father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and ancestor.

[@darynvoss7883]

But wouldn't it be weird for Anne to name three of her daughters Mary?

[@grantorino2325]

In Spain, up until a generation ago, practically all girls were named "Maria." Thus, they often went by their middle names. And in ancient times, there were much fewer names to go around. In ancient Rome, for instance, so many important people had similar 1st and 2nd names that modern historians tend to refer to them by their 3rd or even 4th names! e.g. "Gaius Julius Caesar Aurelia" ("Julius Caesar") and "Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus" ("Caesar Augustus"). In fact, two significant Roman figures, born a generation apart, were BOTH named "Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus." Thus, we English speakers refer to them simply as "Pliny the Elder" and "Pliny the Younger."

[@DeRoest]

Why Terah not marked as Sarah's father?

[@rdyrdyp]

Mary Magdalene was referred to as Mary of Magdalen (a place name). Mary of Bethany was Martha and Lazarus' sister. So is Bethany another name for Magdalen?

[@Replicaate]

Well I know what I'm doing for the next hour and ten.

[@jakoboka]

So the grandfather of Jethro was the grandchild of Midian? 😊

[@robertpenny7180]

@8:00 Lydia should be Lud.

[@jakoboka]

InspiringPhilosophy and Matt Baker combined in a dialogue on the bible would be epic!

[@paulinalevina9690]

Why is Tibni pronounced Tiffany?

[@DianaBell_MG]

@55:49 you show on the screen that Apostille John is the same person who wrote the Book of John and Revelations, but we know pretty concretely that John wasn't written until around 100 AD and didn't have singular author. How old do you think the guy was when writing this book?

[@kitfisto1827]

Probably in his 90's

[@gadaadyn8190]

To do the Lurie Family

[@bentoth9555]

Ahab was a king? I thought he was a whaling boat captain.

[@grantorino2325]

His first officer, Starbuck, went on to found a successful chain of coffee shops.

[@karidesisrinivas9379]

Please provide these charts my country India also

[@famliy60]

I could need you to answer me two questions. Do the word "all" mean nothing in the Exodus movement, or was it just a mistranslation. Like all the Egyptian animals keep getting destroyed over and over again, then all of the trees get destroyed, yet some remain. My first question is why? Second question: Why was there a chosen people prior to Abraham? I thought the Jews were special because of the sacrifice Abraham made, so how and why was there still a chosen prior? Is it because of Cain and Seth? But didn't only Seth decentance made it through the flood? Was there a chosen because of the tower of babbal, did it happen because of the curse of the Canaanites?

[@kitfisto1827]

Yes. Cain was "cursed" by God, so his descendants were also viewed the same way. Descendants of Seth, on the other hand, would have been viewed with favor, provided they were a moral person. That number was eventually only 8 people.

[@kitfisto1827]

That said, any one else could have also been saved, regardless of their lineage, if they had listened to Noah.

[@famliy60]

@@kitfisto1827 Yes anybody could have been saved, but they wasn't. I love stories, I am an Anime junki, and I love cartoons, I get emotional from a good story. However when I read the biblical accounts there are always plot holes. Like how was Lot's daughters still virgins if they had husbands? Why is "All" miss used, I could excuse Eve being the mother of all living, because I know what the text meant by context, but I can't excuse the Exodus. It's as if they've exaggerated the story, because being a nation of farmers, having your live stock and field destroyed would be painful. So it's as if during the plagues that was the only plot they could rubbed in. I was talking about the chosen people after the flood, but before Abraham btw. Also why would God choose the Israelites just to abandon them for Christianity? I just don't get it. I am so regretful I've been so strictly following religion on the whole all m life. Not because of the plot holes, but because of Christianity. Because Christianity makes a paradox child's play with how confusing it is. I will read your responses and look into them.

[@famliy60]

@@kitfisto1827 So the tower of Babbal wasn't random? He give the children of Ham a language, and Seth another, then the other son decentance another language. Then he split them up based on the curse. When I was a Davidian, not Branch Davidian, I've read by our prophet the gentiles still had God names and titles in the original language and named their gods after them. That was the exclamation given to why the gentile gods have the same names as his titles and name in some cases. This also explains why some of the Canaanites nations were named after God. I don't believe none of that now, of course.

[@andyanderson4918]

@famliy60 A lot of the old testament uses hyperbole and exaggeration that would have been common in story telling and language in the time of its writing. For example in dueteronomy, joshua, and 1 samuel. And probably other places God calls upon His people to “utterly destroy” another people group or city. Sometimes going as far to say leave no man women, livestock, etc.. That doesn’t happen really though, like in the bible stories a lot of times the Israelites end up mingling with or marrying the canaanites they were told to destroy. So wording like “utterly destroy” is likely a literary way for the writer to say “defeat them” with extra emphasis. And to add to that, the old testament specifically was passed down primarily by spoken word until it was written in ancient Hebrew and then translated into ancient greek then translated a few more times to finally get to current english translations. So our understanding of the text is more complicated so we shouldn’t assume its literal with some of these stories. TLDR: the context of and the time frame of the writing and literary tools being used needs to be taken into consideration when reading and examining these bible stories. As he briefly mentioned in the video The writers were likely more concerned about the theme and The theology of these stories than the literal interpretation. I hope that helps some, I pray that you continue to examine these stories. God wants you to find Him through His word and to chose Him by loving Him in. Obedience. There are lots of resources and discussions on these topics all over youtube that I’m sure you could find if you look! God bless you.

[@TheSignofJonah777]

1:09:04 and good to note that Matthew was a tax collector and an outcast to Jewish society so that is more possible with him as a writer

[@sarahemf]

Has anyone considered the whole why would parents call their kids the same name? Mary and Mary? Cousin or remarried?

[@karidesisrinivas9379]

This is my good opportunity

[@TheSignofJonah777]

Might cop this poster

[@johnhull6061]

Can’t stop and correct each incorrect secular comment throughout the entire 1hr video

[@djphlange]

The three races thing is just a generalization. Like they're saying at a point when there was only so many ppl, that the separation eventually lead to 3 main types of peoples. But naturally over the course of millennia, these groups also spread out and mixed with each other to then create new bloodlines and new types of people, leading to the 100s of types we have today. It's not like Noah had one son who was black and one son who was white and an Asian but this point in history is so far back that when they spread out, geography and the conditions created different races. I heard some where that white people are really only been a thing for 10k years or so , a lot of that was from diet and where they lived

[@danielboomers]

why is there no genealogy of Japheths side?

[@caseypenk]

Something I’ve wondered since I started learning about the history of religion: Is it considered heresy under Christian theology to acknowledge that certain stories or figures are mythical? Or is it only heretical to deny Jesus’s personhood and/or Godhood?

[@jemmaisweird]

very much depends who you ask. christianity is not a monolith, and in my church it’s totally acceptable to believe that certain parts of the bible are just stories/allegories. we even have some of matt’s charts in the youth group room! there are other congregations from my same denomination that believe the bible (specifically the KJV) is 100% factual and to question that is completely out of line.

[@kitfisto1827]

heresy is simply the deliberate spreading of falsehoods

[@Yaqubsalama]

Ask the Orthodox Church, don't ask the Protestants in America, there are too many denoms with different opinions and beliefs that make people confused about Christianity

[@Yaqubsalama]

​@@jemmaisweirdIt's teachings like this that have made many Christians in America become atheists because there's no clarity on what the true faith is. People just choose what they want to believe. That's what led to people arguing with each other about which one is true and ended up founding other churches that suited their mindset.

[@Ofallthings089]

What makes you think James, Joses, Simon, and Judas are not Jesus’s biological brothers? Or were you not considering that for the purpose of this family tree?

[@redflags6583]

Ishmael should be mentioned too because of his importance to Islam

[@nabodabo1235]

Huh So Jezebel is Dido's grand aunt

[@gustaveluna9349]

is this a reupload or a correction from the other vid ? In other way, does the science proove another "story/history"? or incest like it uses to be? PS: what about the gospel of juda? Where is brian?

[@brua7777777]

Samuel was a Ephraimite "1st Samuel 1:1"

[@adrianblake8876]

50:28 Sorry, Matt, but that argument is BS, Hebrew has and always had a word for cousin. Ok, not really a word, but a cousin is your uncle's son, so we literally call them "uncle's son"...

[@jakoboka]

Why not giving Shoshenq a blue checkbox? It's mentioned in the bible, hè faught against Rehabeam, even though his name isn't found.

[@UsefulCharts]

Yeah, he should have one.

[@kitfisto1827]

So Shoshenq had a Redemption?

[@mlgdigimon]

12:20 thats a stretch if i saw one.

[@UsefulCharts]

Yup. Just a fun coincidence.

[@mlgdigimon]

@@UsefulCharts very fun to think about though

[@marinaaaa2735]

Brahmin and saraswati are definitely indoeuropean so it's unlikely theyre related to abraham and sarah

[@Str8Gifted]

I like how they have Adam and then Eve... Then Cain and Abel... Then yada yada yada yada yada Noah.... We just won't talk about how we got there lol

[@xaviersapp5276]

Did Esau rule Babylon?

[@famliy60]

I deleted my last comment. But seriously, what if Joseph and the cousin of Jesus the same Joseph? What if that's why they're both missing. Because we're just assuming Joseph is Mary of clopus son. He may be both Jesus step father and cosin, Mary may have gone with her cousin. But why would Jesus call him brother? Did he not see Joseph as a father. It's too far out there.

[@sahilsingh6048]

In sanskrit india we call greeks yavan.

[@darren.mcauliffe]

Abraham and Brahma being similar only works in English, so that doesn't mean anything. And you said that Judaism and Hunduism are too of the oldest religions. Hinduism is, but Judaism isn't even close. It didn't exist until at least 500BC, probably more like 700BC; which is too late to say it's one of the earliest.

[@princessaja2557]

No. Its a memory of agriculturalists sweeping west and slaughtering the hoarders and hunter gatherers, which although different, still More similar to each other than the ag, which are totally different. Not only in lifestyle, constant reproduction to make farm hands, but also In desire and ideas of ownership and what can be owned. ideas like Hierarchy stratification and ruling models. Etc.

[@michaelbindner9883]

According to Luke, the Baptist was the reincarnation of Elijah. Clopas could have been the brother of Joseph, who died without issue, so Joses may have been older than James the Just. If Salome was the sister of Jesus, James and John would have been Jesus nephews. Mary, mother of Jesus (grandmother of John) is now one of 3, not 4 Marys. Jesus' mother, his sister and his wife.

[@michaeladu6120]

12:18 Please, don't encourage the Hindu nationalists.

[@zikiardani7277]

ooo

[@jakoboka]

The things you mentioned about piecing together the bible is not proven. It's a theory, just as the theory that ancient texts ofter were chiastic, which means that repetitiveness is in purpose. Like in the Iliad and the Odyssey. Scholars agree on that theory as well. So why not mention it?