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From: rjb@akgua.UUCP (R.J. Brown [Bob])
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: Acceptance of Isaiah
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Date: Fri, 23-Mar-84 12:37:26 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 23 12:37:26 1984
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>Concerning the genealogy of Jesus, it is done through Mary(Luke chapter 3).
>In the gospel of Matthew, the genealogy is of Joeseph- but he is of the
>lineage of Jeconiah, and in Jeremiah, it is said that no descendent
>of Jeconiah will ever be the Messiah.

First: DOES Jeconiah = Jehoiachin ?
If yes, then

From Matt 1:12-16 we have:
"From the time AFTER THE EXILE in Babylon to the birth
 of Jesus, the following ancestors are listed:

 Jehoiachin, Shealtiel,...,and Joseph who married Mary the
 Mother of Jesus, who was called the Messiah" (Good News Bible)

 I notice when I read Jeremiah 22: 24-30 and 2 Kings 24: 8-17
 that King Jehoiachin AND his mother and SONS were all carried
 off to Babylon with the strong implication that they never
 would return nor any of their seed.

 Couple this with Matthew's statement about AFTER the exile
 I conclude that we are talking about two different people
 named Jehoiachin(Jeconiah).

"Through a glass darkly..etc"


Bob Brown {...pur-ee!inuxc!ihnp4!clyde!akgua!rjb}
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