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Jechonias

also known as:
Jeconiah (1 Chronicles 3:16; Jeremiah 24:1; 27:20)
Jechoniah
Jehoiachin
Coniah (an abbreviation of Jeconiah, Jeremiah 22:24 KJV; 37:1 KJV)
Jekonjah
Jojachin (German version)
Yaukin, King of Judah in The Ration Tablets discovered in ancient Babylon

Greek: Ἰεχονίας —transliteration: Iechonias —occurrences: 2 (Matthew 1:11-12 KJV)

This Judean king was known by the various names above.

“Coniah is an abbreviation of Jeconiah (1 Chronicles 3:16), which is another form of the name Jehoiachin (2 Kings 24:6).

Coniah was the last king of Judah in the direct line from King David.

When he was deported to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar (2 Chronicles 36:10), Coniah’s uncle Zedekiah was assigned to rule Judah for a brief reign, but he also was put down, and no later king was ever able to regain the throne.” —Dr. Henry M. Morris, The Defender's Study Bible, aka The Henry Morris Study Bible, note for Jeremiah 22:24

The Gospel of Matthew records,

“And Josiah was the father of Jeconiah and his brothers, at the time of the deportation to Babylon. And after the deportation to Babylon: Jeconiah was the father of Shealtiel, and Shealtiel was the father of Zerubbabel.” —Matthew 1:11-12

Jechonias is one of the Judean Davidic kings in the legal ancestry of Jesus Christ, the Messiah, through his foster-father Joseph, a descendant of King David (Matthew 1:16).

Lineage—Adam to Jesus Christ through Joseph

Adam → Seth → Enos → Cainan → Mahalaleel → Jared → Enoch → Methuselah → Lamech → Noah → Shem → Arpachshad (Arphaxad) → Cainan → Shelah → Eber → Peleg → Reu → Serug (Saruch) → Nahor → Terah → Abraham → Isaac → Jacob → Judah → Perez → Hezron → Ram → Amminadab → Nahshon → Salmon → Boaz → Obed → Jesse → KING DAVID → King Solomon → King Rehoboam → King Abijah (Abijam) → King Asa → King Jehoshaphat → King Jehoram (Joram) → King Ahaziah (Uzziah) → King Jotham → King Ahaz → King Hezekiah → King Manasseh → King Amon → King Josiah → Jeconiah (Jechonias, Jehoiachin, Jekonjah, Coniah) → Prince Shealtiel → Prince Zerubbabel (Zorobabel) → Prince Abiud (Abihud) → Governor Eliakim → Azor → Zadok → Achim → Eliud → Eleazar → Matthan → Jacob → JOSEPH, the adoptive, legal father of Jesus Christ

“It was Jechoniah whose sins caused God to cut his seed off from ever sitting on David's throne (Jeremiah 22:24-30). …Jechoniah’s royal line of descendants is listed here [in the genealogy of Matthew 1] to show the legal right of Joseph, the foster father of Jesus, to David’s throne (Matthew 1:16). Neither Joseph nor any others of Jechoniah’s seed could ever have the SPIRITUAL right to the throne. That right must be carried through Mary’s ancestry.” —Dr. Henry M. Morris, The Defender's Study Bible, note for Matt. 1:11

See Jeremiah 22:24-30 and 33:15-17.

See: Mary, mother of Jesus — Note that Zechoniah is not in her ancestry.

For more information about this man, see JEHOIACHIN (one of his other names).

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• JEHOIACHIN
• Nedabiah, his son
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