Teks -- Luke 2:4 (NET)

2:4 So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family line of David.

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Vincent: Luk 2:4 - House and lineage

House and lineage

According to the Jewish mode of registration the people would be enrolled by tribe, families or clans , and h ouseholds. Compare Jos 7:16-18. Rev., house and family.

JFB: Luk 2:4-5 - Not only does Joseph, who was of the royal line, go to Bethlehem (1Sa 16:1), but Mary too

Not from choice surely in her condition, but, probably, for personal enrollment, as herself an heiress.

TSK: Luk 2:4 - Joseph // of the city // unto // he was

Joseph : Luk 1:26, Luk 1:27, Luk 3:23

of the city : Luk 4:16; Mat 2:23; Joh 1:46

unto : Gen 35:19, Gen 48:7; Rth 1:19, Rth 2:4, Rth 4:11, Rth 4:17, Rth 4:21, Rth 4:22; 1Sa 16:1, 1Sa 16:4, 1Sa 17:12, 1Sa 17:58; 1Sa 20:6; Mic 5:2; Mat 2:1-6; Joh 7:42

he was : Luk 1:27, Luk 3:23-31; Matt. 1:1-17

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Poole: Luk 2:4-6 - accomplished

Ver. 4-6. This was the occasion of Joseph’ s coming to Bethlehem, who either for fear of Herod, or for the convenience of his trade, (though he belonged to the tribe of Judah), was removed into Galilee; but he yieldeth obedience to the civil magistrates, and cometh to be enrolled in the court books belonging to the Roman empire, to which by this action he acknowledgeth himself a subject; he also by this act publicly declared both himself and Mary his wife to have been of the tribe of Judah, and of the family of David. We are told it was the custom of the Romans to enrol both women and children; however, Mary’ s personal attendance upon this homage might have been excused by her being great with child, had not the counsel of God so ordered it, that Christ should be born there; this doubtless carried Mary along with Joseph, he having now (according to the angel’ s direction, Mat 1:20,24 ), took her unto him as his wife. While they were there, Mary’ s time of childbearing was

accomplished: we have the like phrase Gen 25:24 .

Lightfoot: Luk 2:4 - Because he was of the house and lineage of David

And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Beth-lehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David):   

[Because he was of the house and lineage of David.] We read in the evangelists of two families, that were of the stock and line of David; and the Talmudic authors mention a third. The family of Jacob the father of Joseph, the family of Eli the father of Mary, and the family of Hillel the president of the Sanhedrim, " who was of the seed of David, of Shephatiah the son of Abital."  

I do not say that all these met at this time in Bethlehem: [It is indeed remarked of Joseph, that he was "of the house of David"; partly because he was to be reputed, though he was not the real father of Christ; and partly also, that the occasion might be related that brought Mary to Bethlehem, where the Messiah was to be born.] but it may be considered whether Cyrenius, being now to take an estimate of the people, might not, on purpose and out of policy, summon together all that were of David's stock, from whence he might have heard the Jews' Messiah was to spring, to judge whether some danger might not arise form thence.

Haydock: Luk 2:4

The evangelist here mentions the city of David, to remind us how exactly that was fulfilled, which God had promised to David, that an everlasting king should be born of him: and the reason why the inspired writer was content to mention the relationship between Joseph and David, omitting that of the Blessed Virgin and the royal prophet, was, because in the law it was commanded that persons of the same family should intermarry; hence it is added in the subsequent verse, with Mary, his espoused wife. (St. Irenæus, hær. lib. iii. chap. 11.)

Gill: Luk 2:4 - And Joseph also went up from Galilee // out of the city of Nazareth; // into Judea; // unto the city of David; // which is called Bethlehem // because he was of the house and lineage of David

And Joseph also went up from Galilee,.... Where he now lived, and worked at the trade of a carpenter; having for some reasons, and by one providence or another, removed hither from his native place:

out of the city of Nazareth; which was in Galilee, where he and Mary lived; and where he had espoused her, and she had conceived of the Holy Ghost:

into Judea; which lay higher than Galilee, and therefore he is said to go up to it:

unto the city of David; not what was built by him, but where he was born and lived; see 1Sa 17:12.

which is called Bethlehem: the place where, according to Mic 5:2 the Messiah was to be born, and was born; and which signifies "the house of bread": a very fit place for Christ, the bread which came down from heaven, and gives life to the world, to appear first in. This place was, as a Jewish chronologer says ^g, a "parsa" and half, or six miles from Jerusalem; though another of their writers, an historian and traveller ^h, says, it was two "parsas", or eight miles; but Justin Martyr ⁱ says, it was but thirty five furlongs distant from it, which is not five miles; hither Joseph came from Galilee,

because he was of the house and lineage of David; he was of his family, and lineally descended from him, though he was so poor and mean; and this is the reason of his coming to Bethlehem, David's city,