Matthew 1:11
Josiah was an ancestor of Jechoniah and his brothers at the time of the deportation to Babylon.
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
And Josias begat Jechonias and his brethren, about the time they were carried away to Babylon:
In Context
10Hezekiah was the father of Manasseh, Manasseh the father of Amon, and Amon the father of Josiah.
Cross References
2 Kings 25:11As for the rest of the people who were left in the city, those who had deserted to the king of Babylon, and the remainder of the population—Nebuzaradan, the commander of the bodyguard, took them away into exile.
2 Chronicles 36:1Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's place in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 36:20The king carried away to Babylon those who had escaped the sword. They became servants for him and his sons until the rule of the kingdom of Persia.
Jeremiah 27:20the objects that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take when he carried Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon with all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 52:11Then he put out Zedekiah's eyes, bound him in bronze chains, and brought him to Babylon. The king of Babylon put him in prison until the day of his death.
Daniel 1:2The Lord gave Nebuchadnezzar victory over Jehoiakim king of Judah, and he gave him some of the sacred objects from the house of God. He brought them into the land of Babylonia, to the house of his god, and he placed the sacred objects in his god's treasury.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 1:2-18
Matthew to John The one half of our undertaking upon the New Testament It may be proper to apprise the reader that the volume to which this preface was originally prefixed included the Acts of the Apostles, which in the present edition will commence the second volume, in order to secure a more equal division of the New Testament—the commentary on the remaining books being less extended than the author contemplated .—Ed . is now, by the assistance of divine grace, finished, and presented to the reader, who, it is… Read the whole commentary →