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Matthew 1:10
Hezekiah was the father of Manasseh, Manasseh the father of Amon, Amon the father of Josiah,
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Matthew presents this verse as a structural pause in a written genealogy addressed to a reader examining Jesus’s Davidic credentials. The text explicitly records Hezekiah fathering Manasseh, Manasseh fathering Amon, and Amon fathering Josiah within this sequential list.
The words — The Greek ἐγέννησεν (egennēsen) literally means “he begat” or “he fathered,” marking direct paternal succession. Ἑζεκίας (Hezekias) and Μανασσῆς (Manassēs) function as proper nouns anchoring the lineage to named monarchs of Judah.
The thread — This paternal chain continues through Amon to Josiah, who fathers Jeconiah at the Babylonian exile (Matthew 1:11) and aligns with the royal records of 2 Kings 20:21 and 2 Chronicles 32:33. The sequence mirrors the historical succession of Judah’s kings before the covenant promises shift toward restoration.
Why it lands — The text demands recognition that Jesus’s ancestry includes historically verified kings and ordinary fathers, requiring the reader to accept the genealogy as factual grounding for the messianic claim. It asks the reader to trace the unbroken line without filtering out the listed names.
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The Greek words
King James Version
And Ezekias begat Manasses; and Manasses begat Amon; and Amon begat Josias;
Cross-references
- 2 Chronicles 32:33 And Hezekiah rested with his fathers and was buried in the upper tombs of David’s descendants. All Judah and the people of Jerusalem paid him honor at his death. And his son Manasseh reigned in his place.
- 1 Kings 13:2 And he cried out against the altar by the word of the LORD, “O altar, O altar, this is what the LORD says: ‘A son named Josiah will be born to the house of David, and upon you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense upon you, and human bones will be burned upon you.’”
- 2 Kings 20:21 And Hezekiah rested with his fathers, and his son Manasseh reigned in his place.
- 2 Kings 24:3 Surely this happened to Judah at the LORD’s command, to remove them from His presence because of the sins of Manasseh and all that he had done,
- 1 Chronicles 3:13 Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son,
- Jeremiah 1:2 The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah in the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah,