People & Characters

Azor

An ancestor of Jesus Christ listed in the genealogy of Matthew, living during the post-exilic and intertestamental period.

Azor appears only in the genealogy of Jesus recorded in Matthew's Gospel. He was the son of Eliakim and the father of Zadok, placing him in the period between the return from Babylonian exile and the time of Herod. Matthew's genealogy traces Jesus' legal descent from Abraham through David and Solomon, establishing His right to the throne of Israel. Nothing else is known about Azor from Scripture or extrabiblical sources.
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