There were 77 generations between Adam and Jesus Christ. ... King David died at age 70 and King Solomon at 58. Both branches of King David's genealogy converged in Zorobabel.

We may never know whether Jesus' paternal grandfather through Joseph was Jacob (Matt. 1:15) or Heli (Luke 3:23b), and it could well be that they were brothers, with Heli the uncle and legal line ...