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The Geneology Of The Messiah NOTE: On this webpage, I will only quote Scripture from the Israeli Authorised Version (I.A.V.) translation. This is because I do not believe that any Orthodox Jewish people would have any desputes about the verses I will quote on this page that are quoted from The Tanakh, and I want to simplify this complex issue as much as possible: There are those whom are critical of the geneology of Yehowshua. Here are their claims: A) "Since the geneology lists in Matthew and Luke differ, they contradict each other". B) "Matthew lists Ykhanyahu,a cursed king in Mattityahu 1:12. Note Yermeyahu 22:28-30": Jer 22:28 Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not? Jer 22:29 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of ADONAI. Jer 22:30 Thus saith ADONAI, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the Throne of David, and ruling any more in Yhudah. The answer is that Mattityahu is not necessarily giving a list of the literal fathers and their literal physical sons, let-alone their orders. Mattityahu is giving the Kingly line going throush Yosef. Most of the names after David were found to be kings of Yhudah in 1st Chronicles chapter 3. Note the Law of Yabam in Devarim 25... Devarim 25:5 If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her. Devarim 25:6 And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Yisrael. Compare this with Yermeyahu 22:30 about Ykhanyahu: Yermeyahu 22:30 Thus saith ADONAI, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the Throne of David, and ruling any more in Yhudah. With all this in-mind, the key here is 2 Kings 24:15--17... 2Ki 24:15 And he carried away Yhoyakhin to Bavel, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, those carried he into captivity from Yerushalayim to Bavel. 2Ki 24:16 And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all that were strong and apt for war, even them the king of Bavel brought captive to Bavel. 2Ki 24:17 And the king of Bavel made Mattaniah his father's brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Tzidkiyah-yahu. CONCLUSION: Ykhanyahu is listed in Mattyahu 1:12 because he was THE LITERAL SEED that SHOULD HAVE BEEN COUNTED as heir. However, as the above verses indicate, He was blotted-out OF THE ROYAL REGISTRY OF KINGS, and replaced with Tzidkiyah-yahu, (2 Kings 24:17). Tzidkiyah-yahu thus became THE LEGAL HEIR to The Throne instead of Ykhanyahu. Mattityahu lists Ykhanyahu because he WAS SUPPOSED to be the legal Heir to The Throne, but because of his sins, he was blotted-out. Here, the principle of The Law of Yabbam, (Devarim 25:5, 6) applies CONCERNING THE THRONE. Yoshiyah-yahu had four sons, Yohanan,Yhoyakhim, Tzidkiyah-yahu, Shallum (1st Chronicles 3:15). When Yhoyakhim's seed was blotted-out, they were as good as dead CONCERNING THE THRONE, and (2 Kings 24:17), the brother Tzidkiyah-yahu raised up seed in his place. The geneological list in Luke also goes through Yosef, but does not give the royal line of Kings. This is why some of the names are different. Concerning Isaiah 7:14 and