Jeconiah

Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim and the abominations that he did and what was found against him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

And Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place." And, uh, by the way, Chronicles doesn't record the fact, uh, but we know that Jehoiakim, this previous king, uh, died in disgrace while he was still living in Jerusalem [clears throat] as Jeremiah actually foretold that he would.

Verse nine, "Jehoiachin was 18 years old when he became king, and he reigned three months and 10 days in Jerusalem.

He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.

In the spring of the, uh, of the year, King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon with the precious vessels of the house of the Lord and made his brother Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem." Um, by the way, just so you know, um, J- Jehoiachin spent the next 37 years in prison.

And now Zedekiah is king in, uh, Jerusalem.

"Zedekiah was 21 years old when he became, began to reign, and he reigned 11 years in Jerusalem.

These are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the surviving elders of the exiles and to the priests, the prophets, and all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had taken into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.

This was after King Jeconiah and the queen mother, the eunuchs and the officials of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen and the metal workers had departed from Jerusalem.

The letter was sent by the hand of Elasa, the son of Safan and Gemariah, the son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah, king of Judah, sent to Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon.

It said, this is the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.

Ammon became the father of Josiah.

Josiah became the father of Jeconiah and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon.

After the exile to Babylon, Jeconiah became the father of Shealtiel.

Shealtiel became the father of Zerubbabel.

Zerubbabel became the father of Abiud.

Matthew is Leverite, Leverite, where it's the legal line, the legal descent.

This goes back to something called the curse on Jeconiah.

He could not have a descendant on the throne of David, so he had to be circumvented.

So, therefore, it was circumvented by means of Leverite marriage, okay? Also, Luke's genealogy is more of a universal one, back to Adam, while Matthew's genealogy is a Jewish one.

Ezekiel 1:1, "In the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I was among the exiles by the Kebar canal, the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God.

On the fifth day of the month," it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin, "the word of the Lord came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the Kebar canal, and the hand of the Lord was upon him there." Okay, super interesting here that Ezekiel is a priest.

Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

That means that he was one who knew of the temple sacrifices.

It says, Now there was a Jew in Susa, the settler, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jeah, son of Shimei, son of Kish, a Benjamite, Benjamite.

who had been carried away from Jerusalem among the captives carried away with Jeconiah, king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, had carried away.

He was bringing up Hadassah, that is Esther, the daughter of his uncle, for she had neither father nor mother.

The young woman had a beautiful figure and was lovely to look at.