Jechonias

Jechonias is the Greek form of Jeconiah, also called Jehoiachin, the young king of Judah exiled to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar after a three-month reign (2 Kings 24:8-15); Matthew's genealogy lists him at the pivotal generation marking the exile (Matthew 1:11-12). Babylonian ration tablets excavated in the city and dated to Nebuchadnezzar's reign list regular food allotments for “Yaukin, king of the land of Yahud” and his sons, confirming that the exiled king was kept alive and provided for at the Babylonian court, exactly as 2 Kings 25:27-30 describes decades later. Jeremiah had pronounced a curse that none of his descendants would sit on David's throne (Jeremiah 22:30), a tension Matthew resolves by tracing Jesus' legal, not biological, throne-right through Joseph rather than a reigning bloodline.