The Davidic Kingship in Judah
The Royal Line of Solomon |
The Line of Nathan the elder brother of Solomon. |
Solomon |
Nathan |
Rehoboam |
Mattatha |
Abijah |
Menan (Menna) |
Asa |
Melea |
Jehoshaphat |
Eliakim |
Jehoram |
Jonan |
Ahaziah * (2 Kgs 8:27 ; 2Chron. 22:1-9) |
Joseph |
Slain after one year becasue he was evil |
Judah |
Joash (Jehoash) * (2Kgs. 11:2 - 12:20 ; 2Chron 24:1-25) |
Simeon |
Amaziah* (2Kgs.14:8-20; 2Chron. 25:1,8) |
Levi |
Azariah * (2Kgs. 14:21 ; 15:1-28; 1Chron. 3:12 ) |
Matthat |
Uzziah |
Eliezer |
Jotham |
Jose |
Ahaz |
Er |
Hezekiah |
Elmodam |
Manasseh |
Cosam |
Amon |
Addi |
Josiah |
Melchi |
Jehoahaz |
Neri |
Jehoiakim (Eliakim)* (2Kgs. 23:36 -24:6; 2Chron. 36:5-8) |
Salathiel ** |
Slain |
Zorobabel ** |
The Babylonian Captivity (8th year of Jehoiachin) |
Rhesa |
Jechoniah |
Joanna |
(Assir) |
Judah (Joda) |
Shealtiel |
Joseph |
Zerubbabel (Levirate son of Pedaiah (1Chron. 3:19 )) |
S(h)emei |
Abihud |
Mattathias |
Eliakim |
Maath |
Azor |
Naggai (Nagge) |
Zadoc |
Esli |
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Nahum |
Achim |
Amos |
Eliud |
Mattathias |
Eleazer |
Joseph |
Matthan |
Janna(i) |
Jacob |
Melchi |
Joseph husband of Mariam the mother of Christ |
Levi |
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Matthat |
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Heli *** |
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Mariam the wife of Joseph and Mother of Yehoshua the Messiah called Jesus the Christ |
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* names omitted in the stylised list of Matthew chapter 1. All died violent deaths. Azariah may have been meant and Uzziah omitted.
** This list seems to have the duplicate of Shealtiel and Zerubbabel at more or less the time of the captivity. Shealtiel means I have asked God . Zerubbabel and Zorobabel mean descended of Babylon hence all are period names of the Captivity.
*** Wife of Heli is the sister of Elizabeth, mother of John the Baptist and wife of Zacariah (high priest of the division of Abijah). By regulation she must have been a Levite and therefore Christ was descended from Levi as well as Judah. From the prophecies of Zechariah Christ was of David through Nathan and Levi through Shimei.
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