Bible Strands
Matthew 1:12
After the exile to Babylon: Jeconiah was the father of Shealtiel, Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel,
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Matthew records a genealogical list tracing Joseph’s legal line forward from the Babylonian exile to the generation of Zerubbabel. The words — The text employs μετοικεσίαν (metoikesian) to mark the deportation event and ἐγέννησεν (egennēsen) to state the father-son relationship. The thread — The same succession appears in 1 Chronicles 3:17 and Ezra 3:2, which explicitly name Shealtiel as Jeconiah’s son and Zerubbabel as Shealtiel’s son. Why it lands — The passage requires the reader to acknowledge Jesus’ legal descent from Davidic royalty through the post-exilic restoration line.
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The Greek words
King James Version
And after they were brought to Babylon, Jechonias begat Salathiel; and Salathiel begat Zorobabel;
Cross-references
- 1 Chronicles 3:17 The descendants of Jeconiah the captive: Shealtiel his son,
- Ezra 3:2 Then Jeshua son of Jozadak and his fellow priests, along with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and his associates, began to build the altar of the God of Israel to sacrifice burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the Law of Moses the man of God.
- 1 Chronicles 3:19 The sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel and Shimei. The children of Zerubbabel: Meshullam and Hananiah, their sister Shelomith,
- Haggai 1:14 So the LORD stirred the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, as well as the spirit of all the remnant of the people. And they came and began the work on the house of the LORD of Hosts, their God,
- Luke 3:27 the son of Joanan, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, the son of Neri,
- 2 Kings 25:27 On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Judah’s King Jehoiachin, in the year Evil-merodach became king of Babylon, he released King Jehoiachin of Judah from prison.
- Ezra 5:2 Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Jeshua son of Jozadak rose up and began to rebuild the house of God in Jerusalem. And the prophets of God were with them, helping them.
- Nehemiah 12:1 Now these are the priests and Levites who went up with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and with Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,
- Jeremiah 22:24 “As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “even if you, Coniah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, were a signet ring on My right hand, I would pull you off.
- Jeremiah 22:28 Is this man Coniah a despised and shattered pot, a jar that no one wants? Why are he and his descendants hurled out and cast into a land they do not know?