Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 1:17

17 So all the Generations from Abraham to David are fourteen Generations; And from David to the carrying away into Babylon, are fourteen Generations, and from the carrying away into Babylon, unto Christ are fourteen Generations.

The Evangelist for reasons which we cannot fathom, reduceth our Saviour's Progenitors to fourteen in each Period of the Jewish State, and in the first Period determining with David there were no more. In the second, he leaveth out three Kings descended from the Daughter of Ahab. In the third which was from the Captivity to Christ, there were doubtless more, Luke reckoneth up twenty four (taking in Christ for one) and agreeth in very few with Mathew, who was forced to leave out some to keep to his number of fourteen. Nor doth Mathew speak any thing false, or contradictious to Luke, in saying there were fourteen tho there were more. Besides, there might be many more Progenitors of Mary then Ioseph, whose Pedegree Mathew deriveth.