11<\/strong>. Josias begat Jechonias<\/em> (Jehoiakim)] but in the next v.<\/em> Jechonias = Jehoiachin. Read, as in the margin, “Josias begat Jakim (Jehoiakim), and Jakim begat Jechonias (Jehoiachin).<\/p>\n Jechonias and his brethren<\/em> ] Jehoiachin had no brethren, but Jehoiakim had three: a further proof that Jechonias in this verse=Jehoiakim.<\/p>\n Verse 11<\/span>. Josias begat Jechonias, c.<\/B><\/I>] There are three<\/I> considerable difficulties in this verse.<\/P> 1. Josias was not the father<\/I> of Jechonias he was only the grandfather of that prince: 1Ch 3:14-16<\/span>.<\/P> 2. Jechonias had no brethren<\/I>; at least, none are on record.<\/P> 3. Josias died 20 years before the Babylonish captivity took place, and therefore Jechonias and his brethren<\/I> could not have been begotten about the time they were carried away to Babylon<\/I>.<\/P> To this way be added a fourth<\/I> difficulty, viz. there are only thirteen<\/I> in this 2nd class of generations; or forty-one<\/I>, instead of forty-two<\/I>, in the whole. But all these difficulties disappear, by adopting a reading found in many MSS. . And Josias begat<\/I> JEHOIAKIM, or Joakim, and<\/I> JOAKIM begat Jechonias<\/I>. For this reading, see the authorities in Griesbach<\/I>. Josiah<\/I> was the immediate father of Jehoiakim<\/I> (called also Eliakeim<\/I> and Joakim<\/I>) and his brethren, who were Johanan, Zedekiah<\/I>, and Shallum<\/I>: see 1Ch 3:15<\/span>. Joakim was the father of Joachin<\/I> or Jechonias<\/I>, about the time of the first<\/I> Babylonish captivity: for we may reckon three<\/I> Babylonish captivities. The first<\/I> happened in the fourth year of Joakim, son of Josiah, about A. M. 3398. In this year, Nebuchadnezzar, having taken Jerusalem, led a great number of captives to Babylon. The second<\/I> captivity happened under Jechoniah, son of Joakim; who, having reigned three months, was taken prisoner in 3405, and was carried to Babylon, with a great number of the Jewish nobility. The third<\/I> captivity took place under Zedekiah<\/I>, A. M. 3416. And thus, says Calmet, Mt 1:11<\/span> should be read: Josias begat Joakim and his brethren: and Joakim begat Jechonias<\/I> about the time of the<\/I> first Babylonish captivity; and Jechonias<\/I> begat Salathiel, after they were brought to Babylon<\/I>. Thus, with the necessary addition of Joakim<\/I>, the three classes, each containing fourteen<\/I> generations, are complete. And to make this the more evident, I shall set down each of these three generations in a separate column, with the additional Joakim<\/I>, that the reader may have them all at one view. <\/P> 1 Abraham<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P> <\/TD> 1 Solomon<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P> <\/TD> 1 Jechonias<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P> <\/TD> <\/TR> 2 Isaac<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P> <\/TD> 2 Rehoboam<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P> <\/TD> 2 Salathiel<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P> <\/TD> <\/TR> 3 Jacob<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P> <\/TD> 3 Abia<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P> <\/TD> 3 Zorobabel<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P> <\/TD> <\/TR> 4 Judah<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P> <\/TD> 4 Asa<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P> <\/TD> 4 Abiud<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P> <\/TD> <\/TR> 5 Pharez<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P> <\/TD> 5 Josaphat<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P> <\/TD> 5 Eliakim<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P> <\/TD> <\/TR> 6 Esrom<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P> <\/TD> 6 Joram<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P> <\/TD> 6 Azor<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P> <\/TD> <\/TR> 7 Aram<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P> <\/TD> 7 Ozias<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P> <\/TD> 7 Sadoc<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P> <\/TD> <\/TR> 8 Aminadab<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P> <\/TD> 8 Joatham<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P> <\/TD> 8 Achim<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P> <\/TD> <\/TR> 9 Naason<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P> <\/TD> 9 Achaz<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P> <\/TD> 9 Eliud<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P> <\/TD> <\/TR> 10 Salmon<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P> <\/TD> 10 Ezekias<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P> <\/TD> 10 Eleazar<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P> <\/TD> <\/TR> 11 Booz<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P> <\/TD> 11 Manasses<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P> <\/TD> 11 Matthan<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P> <\/TD> <\/TR> 12 Obed<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P> <\/TD> 12 Amon<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P> <\/TD> 12 Jacob<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P> <\/TD> <\/TR> 13 Jesse<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P> <\/TD> 13 Josias<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P> <\/TD> 13 Joseph<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P> <\/TD> <\/TR> 14 David<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P> <\/TD> 14 Joachim<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P> <\/TD> 14 JESUS<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P> <\/TD> <\/TR> <\/TABLE> In all forty-two<\/I> generations. <\/P><\/p>\n In this Jechonias 1Ch 3:15<\/span>,16<\/span> (whoever he was) determined the evangelists second period of fourteen generations. But there is much dispute, both about the Jechonias who is here mentioned, and the sons of Josiah as they are reckoned up 1Ch 3:15<\/span>, where it is said: The sons of Josiah were, the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum. It is plain that Jehoahaz succeeded Josiah his father, 2Ki 23:31<\/span>; 2Ch 36:1<\/span>. It is certain that amongst the Jews it was very ordinary for persons to have two names; thus king Uzziah in the Book of Kings is called Azariah, 2Ki 14:21<\/span>. Most if not all of Josiahs sons had two names: it is plain that Jehoahaz his eldest son is the same who in 1Ch 3:15<\/span> is called Johanan; but he reigned but three months, probably set up by the people, and put down by Pharaoh-necho, in a battle against whom Josiah was slain; he pursuing his victory put him down and set up Eliakim his next brother, calling him Jehoiakim, as he is called 1Ch 3:15<\/span>. He reigned eleven years, 2Ch 36:5<\/span>. The king of Babylon puts him down, and setteth up Jehoiachin his son, who is also called Jeconiah, and Coniah. He reigned but three months and ten days, 2Ch 36:9<\/span>; and the king of Babylon fetcheth him away, and sets up his uncle Zedekiah, called also Mattaniah. He reigned eleven years, as appeareth by 2Ch 36:11<\/span>; then the whole body of the Jews were carried away captive into Babylon. 2Ki 24:14-16<\/span>; 2Ki 25:11<\/span>; 2Ch 36:10<\/span>,20<\/span>; Jer 27:20<\/span>; 39:9<\/span>; 52:11<\/span>,15<\/span>,28-30<\/span>; Da 1:2<\/span> We do not read, either in the Book of Kings or Chronicles, that Shallum (Josiahs fourth son) ever reigned, yet it should seem that he did, by Jer 22:11<\/span>. Some think that he was set up instead of Jehoahaz, when he was carried away. But the Scripture saith nothing of it, nor is it very probable that the conqueror should skip over the second and third son, and set up the fourth. But it is not my present concern to inquire after Shallum, but only after Jechonias mentioned in this verse, and the other Jechonias mentioned in Mat 1:12<\/span>, as the head of those generations which make up the last period. As to this Jechonias, the most probable opinion is, that it was Jehoiakim, who was also called Jeconiah, and that the Jechonias mentioned Mat 1:12<\/span> was Jehoiachin, the son of Jehoiakim. In this I find some of the best interpreters acquiescing, nor indeed is there any great difficulty in allowing Jehoiakim the father, as well as Jehoiachin the son, to be called Jeconiah (so near are the names akin, and the signification of both the same); but then the question is, how Josiah could be said to beget Jehoiakim about the time of the carrying into the captivity of Babylon; for it appeareth by 2Ch 36:5<\/span>, that Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years; and in his time was the first carrying into Babylon; so that there must be thirty-seven years betwixt the begetting of Jehoiakim and the first transportation into Babylon. The margin of our Bibles tells us of another reading, Josias begat Jakim, ( Jakim and Jehoiakim are the same), and Jakim begat Jechonias (that is, Jehoiachin). Beza thinks this the truest reading, taken out of an old copy of R. Stephens, magnified by Stapulensis and Bucer. But he thinks it should be thus, Josias begat Jakim and his brethren, ( for we know that Josiah had four sons), and Jakim begat Jechonias (that is, Jehoiachin) about the time of the carrying into the captivity o Babylon. For Jehoiachin or Jeconiah was not nine years old when himself was carried away, and his father was carried away before. About the carrying away into Babylon: the Greek preposition <\/span> doth not signify any determinate certain time, but doth include sometimes many and distinct times, as it must do here; for Josiah began to reign at eight years old, and reigned thirty-one years, so that he died at thirty-nine years of age, 2Ch 34:1<\/span>. Jehoahaz (or Johanan) his eldest son succeeded him at twenty-three years old, so he must be born when Josiah was sixteen years of age; Jehoiakim began to reign at twenty-five years of age; Zedekiah at one and twenty; as appeareth from 2Ch 36:2<\/span>,5<\/span>,11<\/span>. So that Zedekiah must be but about nine years old when his father died, which was not twelve years before, Jehoiakim was carried into Babylon, as appeareth by the history, 2Ch 36:1-23<\/span>. Thus the persons in this period (which was the flourishing time of the kingdom of Judah) are fourteen: Solomon, Rehoboam, Abia, Asa, Jehoshaphat, Joram, Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, Manasseh, Amon, Josiah, Jehoiakim; only here is no mention made of Jehoahazs reign, who was Josiahs eldest son, who, it may be, is not mentioned by the evangelist, either because Jehoiakim (here called Jechonias) was a second son of the same father, or in regard of his short reign (for it was but three months and odd days); or, it may be, because in all probability he was tumultuously set up by the people, and not fixed in his throne before he was turned out by the conqueror Pharaoh-necho; nor do we read of any sons he left; to be sure he left none who could succeed him in the throne, for Jehoiakim was set up, and his son Jehoiachin succeeded him, as the history telleth us. <\/P> <\/p>\n 11. And Josias begat Jechonias andhis brethren<\/B>Jeconiah was Josiah’s grandson, being the son ofJehoiakim, Josiah’s second son (1Ch3:15<\/span>); but Jehoiakim might well be sunk in such a catalogue,being a mere puppet in the hands of the king of Egypt (2Ch36:4<\/span>). The “brethren” of Jechonias here evidently meanhis unclesthe chief of whom, Mattaniah or Zedekiah, who came tothe throne (2Ki 24:17<\/span>), is, in2Ch 36:10<\/span>, as well as here,called “his brother.” <\/P> about the time they werecarried away to Babylon<\/B>literally, “of their migration,”for the Jews avoided the word “captivity” as too bitter arecollection, and our Evangelist studiously respects the nationalfeeling.<\/P><\/p>\n And Josias begat Jechonias<\/strong>,…. This Jechonias is the same with Jehoiakim, the son of Josias, called so by Pharaohnecho, when he made him king, whose name before was Eliakim, 2Ki 23:34<\/span> begat of Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah, 2Ki 23:36<\/span>.<\/p>\n and his brethren<\/strong>. These were Johanan, Zedekiah, and Shallum. Two of them were kings, one reigned before him, viz. Shallum, who is called Jehoahaz, 2Ki 23:30<\/span> compared with Jer 22:11<\/span>, the other, viz. Zedekiah, called before Mattaniah, reigned after his son Jehoiakim: these being both kings, is the reason why his brethren are mentioned; as well as to distinguish him from Jechonias in the next verse; who does not appear to have had any brethren: these were<\/p>\n about the time they were carried away to Babylon<\/strong>, which is not to be connected with the word “begat”: for Josiah did not beget Jeconiah and his brethren at that time, for he had been dead some years before; nor with Jechonias, for he never was carried away into Babylon, but died in Judea, and slept with his fathers, 2Ki 24:6<\/span> but with the phrase “his brethren”: and may be rendered thus, supposing understood, “which were at”, or “about the carrying away to Babylon”, or the Babylonish captivity.<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n 1) “And Josias beget Jechonias and his brethren,” <\/strong>(losias de egennesen ton lechohian kai tous Adelphous autou) “Then Josias begat Jechonias and his brothers,” twenty-eighth generation <\/strong>of the Abrahamic Faith-line of promise and of the Davidic covenant lineage, second <\/strong>in the (14 generation) series of summary set forth, Mat 1:17<\/span>; Here and Mat 1:8<\/span> five kings are passed over (Ahaziah, Joahaz, Joash, Amazich, and Jehoiakim). Jechoniah or Coniah and “his brethren”, or kindred, is said to have meant to the Jews at that time the last four kings of Judah.<\/p>\n 2) “About the time they were carried away to Babylon:” <\/strong>(epi tes metoikesian Babulonos) “At the time of (or upon the occasion of) the deportation of the (faith-line) people of Abraham and David into Babylon;” This deportation, migration, or captivity of Judah to Babylon began about B C 600 by Nebuchadnezzar, 2Ki 24:11-16<\/span>.<\/p>\n This Jechoniah or Coniah (1Ch 3:17<\/span>; Jer 22:30<\/span>) is the accursed end of David’s seed line for kingly reigning through Solomon. Thus Jesus was not the “seed” of David through this line, through which Joseph was born, but Joseph was his legal father. Jesus was the “seed of the woman,” “made of a woman,” or Mary, who was of the kingly lineage (seed-line) of David through his son Nathan, whose reigning line was not cut off as that of Solomon’s was with Coniah, Luk 3:23-38<\/span>; Gen 3:15<\/span>; Gal 4:4-5<\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n (11) Jechonias and his brethren.<\/strong>Here again there is a missing link in the name of Eliakim, or Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah (2Ki. 23:34<\/span>). Jeconiah was therefore the grandson of Josiah. The alternative reading mentioned in the margin rests on very slight authority, and was obviously the insertion of some later scribe, to meet the difficulty. The word brethren was probably meant to include Mattaniah or Zedekiah, the last king of Judah, who was the son of Josiah, and therefore uncle to Jechoniah.<\/p>\n Mat 1:11<\/span><\/em><\/strong>. <\/strong>Josias begat Jechonias, <\/em><\/strong>&c.<\/strong> Dr. Doddridge renders this verse thus, after the reading of the Bodleian and other manuscripts, notice of which is taken in the margin of our English bibles; And Josiah begat Jehoiachim and his brethren; and about the time of the Bablyonish captivity Jehoiahim begat Jechoniah: <\/em>a reading, which seems absolutely necessary to keep up the number of fourteen generations. Instead of the time they were carried away, <\/em>&c. in this and the next verse, we may read, the time of the trans-migration, <\/em>or carrying away: <\/em>and so Mat 1:17<\/span>. <\/p>\n Mat 1:11<\/span> . The son of Josiah was Joakim, and his son was Jechoniah. Here, consequently, a link is wanting, and accordingly several uncials, curss., and a few versions [353] contain the supplement: <\/em><\/strong> <\/em><\/strong> <\/em><\/strong> <\/em><\/strong> <\/em><\/strong> <\/em><\/strong> <\/em><\/strong> <\/em><\/strong> <\/em><\/strong> <\/em><\/strong> <\/em><\/strong> <\/em><\/strong> <\/em><\/strong> <\/em><\/strong> <\/em><\/strong> <\/em><\/strong> <\/em><\/strong> <\/em><\/strong> (1Ch 3:15-16<\/span> ). The omission is not, with Ebrard, to be explained from the circumstance that under Joakim the land passed under the sway of a foreign power (2Ki 24:4<\/span> ), and that consequently the theocratic regal right became extinct (against this arbitrary view, see on Mat 1:8<\/span> ); but merely from a confusion between the two similar names, which, at the same time, contributed to the omission of one of them. This clearly appears from the circumstance that, indeed, several brothers of Joakim<\/em> are mentioned (three, see 1Ch 3:15<\/span> ), but not of Jechoniah<\/em> . Zedekiah is, indeed, designated in 2Ch 36:10<\/span> as the brother of the latter (and in 1Ch 3:16<\/span> as his son<\/em> ), but was his uncle<\/em> (2Ki 24:17<\/span> ; Jer 37:1<\/span> ). That our genealogy, however, followed the (erroneous, see Bertheau, p. 430) statement in 2Ch 36:10<\/span> , is not to be assumed on account of the plural<\/em> , which rather points to 1Ch 3:15<\/span> and the interchange with Joiakim. It is quite in an arbitrary manner, finally, that Kuinoel has assigned to the words <\/em><\/strong> <\/em><\/strong> Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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