Matthew 1:11
New International Version
and Josiah the father of Jeconiah and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon.

New Living Translation
Josiah was the father of Jehoiachin and his brothers (born at the time of the exile to Babylon).

English Standard Version
and Josiah the father of Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the deportation to Babylon.

Berean Standard Bible
and Josiah the father of Jeconiah and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon.

Berean Literal Bible
and Josiah begat Jechoniah and his brothers at the time of the carrying away to Babylon.

King James Bible
And Josias begat Jechonias and his brethren, about the time they were carried away to Babylon:

New King James Version
Josiah begot Jeconiah and his brothers about the time they were carried away to Babylon.

New American Standard Bible
Josiah fathered Jeconiah and his brothers, at the time of the deportation to Babylon.

NASB 1995
Josiah became the father of Jeconiah and his brothers, at the time of the deportation to Babylon.

NASB 1977
and to Josiah were born Jeconiah and his brothers, at the time of the deportation to Babylon.

Legacy Standard Bible
And Josiah was the father of Jeconiah and his brothers, at the time of the deportation to Babylon.

Amplified Bible
Josiah became the father of Jeconiah [also called Coniah and Jehoiachin] and his brothers, at the time of the deportation (exile) to Babylon.

Christian Standard Bible
and Josiah fathered Jeconiah and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
and Josiah fathered Jechoniah and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon.

American Standard Version
and Josiah begat Jechoniah and his brethren, at the time of the carrying away to Babylon.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Joshaiah begot Jokania and his brothers in the captivity of Babel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Josias begot Jechonias and his brethren in the transmigration of Babylon.

English Revised Version
and Josiah begat Jechoniah and his brethren, at the time of the carrying away to Babylon.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
[Josiah] was the father of [Jechoniah] and his brothers. They lived at the time when the people were exiled to Babylon.

International Standard Version
Josiah fathered Jechoniah and his brothers at the time of the deportation to Babylon.

Literal Standard Version
and Josiah begot Jeconiah and his brothers, at the Babylonian removal.

Majority Standard Bible
and Josiah the father of Jeconiah and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon.

New American Bible
Josiah became the father of Jechoniah and his brothers at the time of the Babylonian exile.

NET Bible
and Josiah the father of Jeconiah and his brothers, at the time of the deportation to Babylon.

New Revised Standard Version
and Josiah the father of Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the deportation to Babylon.

New Heart English Bible
and Josiah the father of Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the exile to Babylon.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Josias begat Jechonias and his brethren, about the time they were carried away to Babylon:

Weymouth New Testament
Josiah of Jeconiah and his brothers at the period of the Removal to Babylon.

World English Bible
Josiah became the father of Jechoniah and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon.

Young's Literal Translation
and Josiah begat Jeconiah and his brethren, at the Babylonian removal.

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Context
The Genealogy of Jesus
10Hezekiah was the father of Manasseh, Manasseh the father of Amon, Amon the father of Josiah, 11and Josiah the father of Jeconiah and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon. 12After the exile to Babylon: Jeconiah was the father of Shealtiel, Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel,…

Cross References
2 Kings 24:14
He carried into exile all Jerusalem--all the commanders and mighty men of valor, all the craftsmen and metalsmiths--ten thousand captives in all. Only the poorest people of the land remained.

Isaiah 13:1
This is the burden against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz received:

Jeremiah 27:20
which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take when he carried Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon, along with all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem.

Matthew 1:12
After the exile to Babylon: Jeconiah was the father of Shealtiel, Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel,

Matthew 1:17
In all, then, there were fourteen generations from Abraham to David, fourteen from David to the exile to Babylon, and fourteen from the exile to the Christ.


Treasury of Scripture

And Josias begat Jechonias and his brothers, about the time they were carried away to Babylon:

Josias.

Jechonias.

2 Kings 23:31-37
Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah…

2 Kings 24:1-20
In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him…

1 Chronicles 3:15-17
And the sons of Josiah were, the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum…

about.

2 Kings 24:14-16
And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land…

2 Kings 25:11
Now the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carry away.

2 Chronicles 36:10,20
And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem…

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Matthew 1
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(11) Jechonias and his brethren.--Here again there is a missing link in the name of Eliakim, or Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah (2Kings 23:34). 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.

Verse 11. - Josias ( Josiah, Revised Version) begat Jechonias ( Jechoniah, Revised Version). Here we come upon another omission. Josiah was the father of Jehoiakim, and he the father of Jechoniah (called also Jehoiachin); see 2 Kings 23:34; 2 Kings 24:6. The omission is supplied in some few manuscripts; but it may be only the case of a marginal note in a previous copy having found its way into the text. There is, however, something to be said in favour of its acceptance. The similarity between the names Jehoiakim and Jehoiachin is very great, especially in some of the Greek forms, so that they might easily be confused, and thus a verse be omitted in some very early text. Then Jehoiachin (Jechonias) apparently had no brethren (but see 1 Chronicles 3:16), whereas Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, had two or three (1 Chronicles 3:15). To make the whole pedigree agree with the Old Testament records some addition in this form would appear necessary; Josiah begat [Jehoiakim and his brethren, and Jehoiakim begat] Jechoniah about the time, etc. But manuscript evidence for this is extremely slight ( vide Westcott and Hort, 'App.,' i,). Yet the supposition that the name of Jehoiakim has been omitted removes what has seemed to many another difficulty. As the list now stands, to make up the fourteen in the third as well as in the second section of the genealogy it is necessary to count Jehoiachin - a king whose reign lasted only three mouths (2 Kings 24:8) - twice over. He closes the second fourteen and begins the third. There is nothing like this found at the other division. To substitute Jehoiakim after Josiah would avoid this repetition of the name of such a very insignificant person, especially as the reign of Jehoiakim lasted eleven years (2 Kings 23:36). And to mention Jehoiakim as the father of Jehoiachin "at the time of the carrying away to Babylon" would be very appropriate, whereas to say Josiah begat his children at that date is not so strictly correct. It seems, then, probable that we have here some clerical error, which may have existed already in the list which St. Matthew used. About the time. The preposition in the Greek means rather, "at the time." The Authorized Version, however, gives the sense, for the birth of Jehoiachin must have been some years before the commencement of the Babylonish conquest, which may be said to have begun with Nebuchadnezzar's invasion of the land in Jehoiakim's days (2 Kings 24:1).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
and
δὲ (de)
Conjunction
Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc.

Josiah
Ἰωσίας (Iōsias)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2502: (Hebrew), Josiah, king of Judah. Of Hebrew origin; Josias, an Israelite.

the father of
ἐγέννησεν (egennēsen)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1080: From a variation of genos; to procreate; figuratively, to regenerate.

Jeconiah
Ἰεχονίαν (Iechonian)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2423: (Hebrew), Jechoniah, son of Josiah and father of Salathiel. Of Hebrew origin; Jechonias, an Israelite.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

his
αὐτοῦ (autou)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

brothers
ἀδελφοὺς (adelphous)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 80: A brother, member of the same religious community, especially a fellow-Christian. A brother near or remote.

at [the time]
ἐπὶ (epi)
Preposition
Strong's 1909: On, to, against, on the basis of, at.

of the
τῆς (tēs)
Article - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

exile
μετοικεσίας (metoikesias)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 3350: From a derivative of a compound of meta and oikos; a change of abode, i.e., expatriation.

to Babylon.
Βαβυλῶνος (Babylōnos)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 897: Of Hebrew origin; Babylon, the capitol of Chaldaea (as a type of tyranny).


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