Later text
Hezekiah was the father of Manasseh, Manasseh the father of Amon, Amon the father of Josiah, and Josiah the father of Jeconiah and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon.
Intertextuality Pair
Matthew 1:10-11 → 2 Kings 22:1
Allusion
Earlier text
2 Kings 22:1BSB
Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years. His mother's name was Jedidah daughter of Adaiah; she was from Bozkath.
Significance
Matthew's royal genealogy names Josiah at the hinge where the monarchy plunges toward exile: "Hezekiah the father of Manasseh... and Josiah the father of Jeconiah and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon" (Mt 1:10-11). 2 Kings 22:1 opens the account of Josiah's reign — the boy-king whose reform was Judah's last covenantal daybreak before the night of Babylon. Matthew's nearer literary source for the king-list is the genealogy of 1 Chronicles 3:10-16, with the Kings narrative as background; the allusion is referential rather than verbal. Theologically, Josiah's placement carries the genealogy's argument: even Judah's best reformer-king could not avert the exile his grandfather Manasseh had sealed (2 Kgs 23:26-27), so the line of David runs through reform and ruin alike until it arrives at the King who saves his people from their sins (Mt 1:21). Josiah marks redemptive history's advance — and its insufficiency apart from Christ.
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- Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
- Reference Type
- Allusion
- Connection Method(s)
- Redemptive-Historical Progression
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