Understanding the genealogy of Matthew and Luke

Genealogies are there in scripture for a reason and when we read on the surface we tend to skip the portions as they don't make sense, but when we look at them closely hidden in them are mysteries glorifying Elohim. All these years I have been trying to understand the genealogies listed in Matthew 1 and Luke 3 and it just seems so complicated when it comes to various names listed leading to Mashiyach, but when we do a thorough scriptural research we see a beautiful picture as to Yahuah keeping his promise to Daud that he would establish his throne forever. Listed below are the genealogies leading to Mashiyach as listed in Matthew and Luke. Many do not understand the reason for the difference in the genealogies and hence say scriptures have been tampered by the scribes or yet some say Brit Chadashah/Renewed Testament is altogether corrupt. This understanding is not easy unless Ruach of Yahuah opens the eyes to the scriptures, once the eyes are opened, it will be easy to understand. Not all will understand except for those who have the Ruach within them. Let's begin...

Matthew 1: 2-16	Luke 3:23-34
Abraham	Abraham
Yitshaq	Yitshaq
Yaaqob	Yaaqob
Yahudah	Yahudah
Pherets	Pherets
Hetsron	Hetsron
Ram	Ram
Aminadab	Aminadab
Nahshon	Nahshon
Salmon	Salmon
Boaz	Boaz
Obed	Obed
Yishai	Yishai
Daud	Daud
Shelemoh	Nathan
Rehaboam	Mattattah
Abiyah	Menna
Asa	Melea
Yahushapat	Elyaqim
Yoram	Yonam
Uzziyah	Yosĕph
	Yehuḏah
	Shimʽon
	Lĕwi
Yotham	Mattithyahu
Ahaz	Yorim
Ḥizqiyahu	Eliʽezer
Menashsheh	Yehoshua
Amon	Er
Yoshiyahu	Elmoḏam
	Qosam
Yeḵonyah	Addi
	Meleḵi
	Neri
She’alti’ĕl	She’alti’ĕl
Zerubbaḇel	Zerubbaḇel
Aḇihud	Rephayah
Elyaqim	Yoḥanan
Azor	Yehuḏah
Tsaḏoq	Yosĕph
Aqim	Shimʽi
Elihuḏ	Mattithyahu
Elʽazar	Maʽath
	Noḡah
	Ḥesli,
	Naḥum
	Amots
	Mattithyahu
	Yosĕph
	Yanah
	Meleḵi
	Lĕwi
Mattan	Mattithyahu
Yaʽaqoḇ	Ěli/Heli
Yosĕph	Yosĕph
Yahusha	Yahusha

****Please note that the genealogy in Luke 3 is until Adam son of Aluahym, I have placed it in reverse and have only accounted from Abraham until Mashiyach to match with the Matthew’s genealogy*****

A first glance at the genealogies side by side show a contradiction as the list of the genealogy from Daud/David is where the problem lies, here is the problem… 

The problem lies as Matthew’s lineage shows the lineage from Shelemoh who was the son of David he got from Bathsheba and Luke’s genealogy records the genealogy from Nathan who was also Daud’s/David’s son. There is no contradiction in Yahuah’s dabar, to understand the genealogies better we must read and understand what this means….

Luk 3:23 And when יהושע Himself began, He was about thirty years of age, being, as reckoned by law, son of Yosĕph, of Ěli/Heli,

Mat 1:16 And Yaʽaqoḇ brought forth Yosĕph the husband of Miryam, of whom was born יהושע who is called Messiah. 

How could Yoseph have two different fathers Yaaqob and Eli/Heli with two different genealogies?

In Luke 3:23 an emphasis is added to let us know that Yoseph was not the immediate son of Eli/Heli, the emphasis can be drawn out from the writing 'as reckoned by law' Matthew 1:16 shows his immediate father Yaaqob from the lineage of Shelemoh.

To understand the promise made to Daud better we need to understand whether the promise made to sit upon his throne and the building of the house was attributed to Shelemoh?

Reading without the emphasis would read Yahusha himself at the beginning of his ministry was about thirty years old, son of Eli." 

The emphasis 'as reckoned by law'  lies in understanding the Torah where a dead brother's wife is given seed by his living brother to keep his name alive in Yasharal. Here is the Torah portion

Deu 25:5 If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the woman of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her man's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to be his woman, and perform the duty of a man's brother unto her.

Deu 25:6 And it shall be, that the firstborn which she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Yashar’el.

While many argue that Matthew genealogy is of Yoseph and Luke is of Miryiam, it is clear from scriptures that no genealogy is ever listed from a woman. It is always the male,however, scripture does mention some women due to their tribal inheritance which we will look at a bit later.

It is evident that Yoseph's immediate father was Yaaqob (Matt 1:16) because the emphasis added there is different as he was the occupying son of Heli to keep his name alive in Yasharal.

Heli would have died childless and Yaaqob would have given seed to his wife to keep his name alive in Yasharal and hence, the parenthesis in Luke 3:23 'as reckoned by the law'

If you notice that both genealogies were from David who was a Yahudite as well as an Ephrathite.

1Sa 17:12 Now David was the son of that Ephrathiy of Beyt Lechem Yahudah, whose name was Yishai; and he had eight sons: and the man went among men for an old man in the days of Sha’ul.

Yahuah in His wisdom brought Boaz the Ephrathite &  Yahudite to redeem Ruth who formerly was a Reubenite and married to Machlon who was an Ephrathtie. Machlon died childless and Boaz in redeeming Ruth bore a son whose name was Obed. Here is the genealogy listed unto David.

Rth 4:18 And this is the genealogy of Perets: Perets brought forth Ḥetsron. 
Rth 4:19 And Ḥetsron brought forth Ram, and Ram brought forth Amminaḏaḇ. 
Rth 4:20 And Amminaḏaḇ brought forth Naḥshon, and Naḥshon brought forth Salmon. 
Rth 4:21 And Salmon brought forth Boʽaz, and Boʽaz brought forth Oḇĕḏ. 
Rth 4:22 And Oḇĕḏ brought forth Yishai, and Yishai brought forth Dawiḏ. 

In 1 Samuel 17:12 hence, David is listed as an Ephrathite of Beyt Lechem Yahudah as he was both an Ephrathite as well as a Yahudite. The genealogies are both listed from Yahudah and not Lewi to tie Heli to be Miryiam’s father. Though Talmud says Heli was the father of Miryiam, there is no scriptural backing to this as Miryiam was from the Lewite lineage.

Luk 1:5  There was in the days of Herodes, the sovereign of Yehuḏah, a certain priest named Zeḵaryah, of the division of Aḇiyah. And his wife was of the daughters of Aharon, and her name was Elisheḇa.

Luk 1:36 “And see, Elisheḇa your/Miryiam closest relative, she has also conceived a son in her old age. And this is now the sixth month to her who was called barren,

The discrepancy is, how Mashiyach is attributed to be the heir seated on David's throne, was it through Shelemoh or through Nathan?

2Sa 7:8  “And now, say to My servant Dawiḏ, ‘Thus said יהוה of hosts, “I took you from the pasture, from following the flock, to be ruler over My people, over Yisra’ĕl.
2Sa 7:9“And I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies from before you, and have made you a great name, like the name of the great ones who are on the earth.
2Sa 7:10  “And I shall appoint a place for My people Yisra’ĕl, and shall plant them, and they shall dwell in a place of their own and no longer be afraid, neither shall the children of wickedness oppress them again, as at the first,
2Sa 7:11  even from the day I appointed rulers over My people Yisra’ĕl, and have caused you to rest from all your enemies. And יהוה has declared to you that He would make you a house.
2Sa 7:12 “When your days are filled and you rest with your fathers, I shall raise up your seed after you, who comes from your inward parts, and shall establish his reign.
2Sa 7:13 “He does build a house for My Name, and I shall establish the throne of his reign forever.
2Sa 7:14 “I am to be his Father, and he is My son. If he does perversely, I shall reprove him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men.
2Sa 7:15 “But My kindness does not turn aside from him, as I turned it aside from Sha’ul, whom I removed from before you.
2Sa 7:16 “And your house and your reign are to be steadfast forever before you – your throne is established forever.” ’ ” 

While most of the biblical scholars attribute that Mashiyach came through the lineage of Shelemoh based on the following promise stated in 1 Ch 22:9-13 as an immediate inference:

1Ch 22:9  ‘See, a son is to be born to you, who is a man of rest. And I shall give him rest from all his enemies all around, for Shelomoh is his name, and peace and rest I give to Yisra’ĕl in his days.
1Ch 22:10 ‘He does build a house for My Name, and he is to be My son, and I am to be his Father. And I shall establish the throne of his reign over Yisra’ĕl forever.’ 
1Ch 22:11 “Now, my son, יהוה be with you, then you shall prosper and build the House of יהוה your Elohim, as He has said to you.
1Ch 22:12 “Only, let יהוה give you wisdom and understanding, and command you concerning Yisra’ĕl, so that you guard the Torah of יהוה your Elohim,
1Ch 22:13  then you shall prosper, if you guard to do the laws and right-rulings with which יהוה commanded Mosheh concerning Yisra’ĕl. Be strong and brave, do not fear nor be discouraged.

The first blush meaning seems to clearly show that Shelemoh's throne over Yasharal will be forever because of the immediate inference, but there is much depth to what is stated.

Also, Shelemoh was called as Beloved of Yahuah as Yahuah loved him.

2Sa 12:24  And Dawiḏ comforted Bathsheḇa his wife, and went in to her and lay with her. So she bore a son, and he called his name Shelomoh. And יהוה loved him,

Now we come to the emphasis ‘and Dawiḏ the sovereign brought forth Shelomoh by Uriyah’s wife’

Mat 1:6  And Yishai brought forth Dawiḏ the sovereign, and Dawiḏ the sovereign brought forth Shelomoh by Uriyah’s wife. 

It is evident here that Shelemoh was given as per Torah to keep Uriyah’s name alive in Yasharal, David's son through Bathsheba died as a child and was a child through illicit relationship while Bathsheba was still the wife of Uriyah. Hence, in order for the promise to be fulfilled that Yahuah made to Dawid he did something hidden in scriptures and it is the esteem of Yahuah to conceal a thing and it’s the esteem of kings to search out a matter (Prov 25:2)

The other problem to tackle is that Uriyah was a Hittite. Many people say he was a Canaanite and hence a pagan. While the tribe he was from is not mentioned in scripture we can’t simply say he is pagan.

2Sa 11:3 And Dawiḏ sent and asked about the woman, and one said, “Is this not Bathsheḇa, the daughter of Eliyam, the wife of Uriyah the Ḥittite?”

Firstly, his name is Uriyah which means ‘Flame of Yah’, secondly, he was a Hittite not by origin but by geographical location. If he was a pagan, then Eliyam the father of Bathsheba wouldn’t have given his daughter to him.

Eliyam was one of the mighty men of king David and so was Uriyah. We get a clue that Eliyam was the son of Ahithophel who was a chief counsellor of David and was a Gilonite. Giloh was a place in Yahudah and its evident that they were all Yahudites just as David was. Hence, Ahithophel was the grandfather of Bathsheba.

2Sa 23:34 Eliphelet son of Aḥasbai, son of the Maʽaḵathite, Eliyam son of Aḥithophel the Gilonite,

2Sa 23:35 Ḥetsrai the Karmelite, Paʽarai the Arbite,

2Sa 23:36  Yiḡ’al son of Nathan of Tsoḇah, Bani the Gaḏite,

2Sa 23:37  Tseleq the Ammonite, Naḥarai the Be’ĕrothite, armour-bearer of Yo’aḇ son of Tseruyah,

2Sa 23:38  Ira the Yithrite, Garĕḇ the Yithrite,

2Sa 23:39 and Uriyah the Ḥittite – thirty-seven in all.

Jos 15:20 This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Yehuḏah for their clans: ……

Jos 15:51 and Goshen, and Ḥolon, and Giloh – eleven cities with their villages.

2Sa 15:12 Aḇshalom also sent for Aḥithophel the Gilonite, counsellor of Dawiḏ, from his city, from Giloh, while he was bringing offerings. And it came to be that the conspiracy became strong, for the people with Aḇshalom kept increasing.

This was the same Ahithophel who joined with Abshalom, David’s son who rebelled against David. Ahithophel’s rebellion in joining with Abshalom against David could be because of his son in law Uriyah’s murder done by David and his marriage life being disrupted through David’s adulterous act. Hence, it’s evident that Uriyah was a Yahudite by origin and Hittite by geographic location. Hence, the son born to David and Bathsheba on the death of their son through illicit relationship would be called after Uriyah to keep his name alive in Yasharal and that son was Shelemoh for Matt 1:6 states and Dawiḏ the sovereign brought forth Shelomoh by Uriyah’s wife, indicating that it was by law. Eliyam the father of Bathsheba whose name means ‘Alahym of the people’ is named as Ammiel in 1 Chr 3:5 which means ‘People of Alahym’

The name 'Shelemah' comes from the word 'shalum H7965' which means peace and Shelemah means 'Peaceful'

What is interesting to see is that David had 4 sons from Bathsheba the wife of Uriah

1Ch 3:1 And these were the sons of Dawiḏ who were born to him in Ḥeḇron: The first-born was Amnon, by Aḥinoʽam the Yizreʽĕlitess; the second, Dani’ĕl, by Aḇiḡayil the Karmelitess; 
1Ch 3:2 the third, Aḇshalom son of Maʽaḵah, the daughter of Talmai, sovereign of Geshur; the fourth, Aḏoniyah son of Ḥaggith; 
1Ch 3:3 the fifth, Shephatyah, by Aḇital; the sixth, Yithreʽam, by his wife Eḡlah. 
1Ch 3:4 Six were born to him in Ḥeḇron. And he reigned there seven years and six months, and in Yerushalayim he reigned thirty-three years. 
1Ch 3:5  And these were born to him in Yerushalayim: Shamah, and Shoḇaḇ, and Nathan, and Shelomoh – four by Bathshua the daughter of Ammi’ĕl.

1 Chronicles 14:4 lists all the 4 sons but without mentioning Bathsheba. Also the name of his son Shamah is listed here as Shammua

1Ch 14:4 And these are the names of his children whom he had in Yerushalayim: Shammua and Shoḇaḇ, Nathan and Shelomoh, 

The 4 sons mentioned born to David was after he married Bathsheba, the one who died without a name is not accounted. The child died before it was named.

2Sa 12:18 And on the seventh day it came to be that the child died. And the servants of Dawiḏ were afraid to inform him that the child was dead, for they said, “Look, while the child was still alive, we spoke to him, and he would not listen to our voice. And how do we say to him that the child is dead? Then he shall do evil!”

According to Torah the male child was circumcised on the eighth day and named, but the child through David’s and Bathsheba’s illicit relationship died nameless and uncircumcised.

What is interesting is that Solomon among the sons of David and Bathsheba is listed as the fourth against the pattern we saw in our study ‘Why the death of the firstborn in Mitsrayim?’ where the youngest/younger son is placed first in the genealogy

Gen 11:26 And Teraḥ lived seventy years, and brought forth Aḇram, Naḥor, and Haran. 

Gen 5:32 And Noaḥ was five hundred years old, and Noaḥ brought forth Shĕm, Ḥam, and Yepheth. 

In the study ‘Why the death of the firstborn in Mitsrayim?’ we saw Abraham and Shem were not the firstborn of their fathers but in the genealogy, they are listed as first in a chronological referent as per the descendancy down to Mashiyach in the Ruach. Numerous other Messianic ancestors, such as Seth, Yitshaq, Yaaqob, Yahudah, Yahusaph, Ephrayim Perets, Masha, David, etc were not firstborn sons but received the firstborn barakat.

1Ch 3:5  And these were born to him in Yerushalayim: Shamah, and Shoḇaḇ, and Nathan, and Shelomoh – four by Bathshua the daughter of Ammi’ĕl. 

While we know for sure that Shelemoh was born to David and Bathsheba after the death of the nameless child through their illicit relationship, in the chronological descent to Mashiyach he was placed above his brothers but scripture places him the last and we will see the reason for this. Our focus is on Shelemoh’s descendant Yakonyah who is named as Konayahu in Yermeyahu/Jeremiah 22:28

Mat 1:10 And Ḥizqiyahu brought forth Menashsheh, and Menashsheh brought forth Amon, and Amon brought forth Yoshiyahu.

Mat 1:11 And Yoshiyahu brought forth Yaḵonayah H3204 and his brothers at the time of the exile to Baḇel.

Mat 1:12 And after the exile to Baḇel, Yeḵonayah H3204 brought forth She’alti’ĕl, and She’alti’ĕl brought forth Zerubbaḇel.

Jer 22:28 “Is this man Konayahu H3659 a despised broken pot, or an undesirable vessel? Why are they hurled out, he and his descendants, and cast into a land which they do not know?

Jer 22:29 “O land, land, land! Hear the word of יהוה!

Jer 22:30 “Thus said יהוה, ‘Write this man down as destitute, a strong man who is not to prosper in his days, for none of his descendants shall prosper, sitting on the throne of Dawiḏ, or rule any more in Yahuḏah.’ ”

Yakonyah means ‘Yah will establish’ and Konayahu means ‘Place/Foot/Base of Yahu’

The one who was to be established by Yah would now be placed at the base/place/foot of Yah. In the Matthew’s genealogy in Matt 1:11-12 it says and Yoshiyahu brought forth Yaḵonayah and his brothers at the time of the exile to Baḇel.

Mat 1:12 And after the exile to Baḇel, Yaḵonyah brought forth She’alti’ĕl, and She’alti’ĕl brought forth Zerubbaḇel. 

But in Yermeyahu we read Yahuah saying in 22:30 “Thus said יהוה, ‘Write this man down as childless, a strong man who is not to prosper in his days, for none of his descendants shall prosper, sitting on the throne of Dawiḏ, or rule any more in Yahuḏah

So, if this man didn’t have any descendants how can he after the exile bring forth She’alti’ĕl, and She’alti’ĕl brought forth Zerubbaḇel? 

1Ch 3:16 And the sons of Yehoyaqim: Yeḵoanyah H3204 his son and Tsiḏqiyah his son.

1Ch 3:17 And the sons of Yaḵonayah H3204 the captive: She’alti’ĕl his son,

1Ch 3:18 and Malkiram, and Peḏayah, and Shenatstsar, Yeqamyah, Hoshama, and Neḏaḇyah.

1Ch 3:19 And the sons of Peḏayah: Zerubbaḇel and Shimʽi. The sons of Zerubbaḇel: Meshullam, and Ḥananyah, and Shelomith their sister,

According to Yahuah’s curse on Yakonayah he would be destitute and none of his descendants sitting on the throne of David would prosper or rule anymore in Yahudah. Hence, this lineage couldn’t bring forth the Mashiyach. In the 2 genealogies listed some of the sons listed there are not immediate sons of their fathers but descendants. I’m listing just the portions of it to make a point

Matthew                    Luke
Yeḵonyah	Addi
	Meleḵi
	Neri
She’alti’ĕl	She’alti’ĕl
Zerubbaḇel	Zerubbaḇel

According to 1Chr 3:17 Shealtiel is the son of Yekonyah, also, Zerubbabel is listed in both Matthew and Luke genealogy as the son of Shealtiel but is listed as the son of Pedayah, the son of Yakonayah. There is no contradiction in scriptures, the scroll of Chronicles only lists the descendants who carried on their father’s name and lineage as per Torah of the dead man’s name to be kept alive or as per the chief ruler to identify the lineage, and many of them listed in Chronicles are not immediate sons. Moreover, Yakonayah had no sons and this we can know from 2Kings 24:14-15

2Ki 24:14 And he exiled all Yerushalayim, and all the officers and all the mighty brave men – ten thousand exiles – and all the craftsmen and smiths. None remained except the poorest people of the land.

2Ki 24:15 And he exiled Yahoyaḵin H3078 to Baḇel. And the sovereign’s mother, and the sovereign’s wives, and his eunuchs, and the leading men of the land he exiled from Yerushalayim to Baḇel. 

Here he is named as Yahoyakin H3078 which means the same as ‘Yahuah will establish firm’ When the king of Babylon carried him away captive, there is no mention of his sons which means that 1Chr 3:17 were not his sons but borrowed sons as per Torah. Shealtiel’s father listed in Luke’s genealogy is mentioned as Neri

Luk 3:27 of Yoḥanan, of Rephayah, of Zerubbaḇel, of She’alti’ĕl, of Neri,

And this lineage is from Nathan, David’s son

1Ki 5:5 “And see, I intend to build a house for the Name of יהוה my Elohim, as יהוה spoke to my father Dawiḏ, saying, ‘Your son, whom I set/nathan H5414 on your throne in your place, he does build the house for My Name.’ 

The conditional covenant with Shelemoh:

1Ch 28:5 “And of all my sons – for יהוה has given me many sons – He has chosen my son Shelomoh to sit on the throne of the reign of יהוה over Yisra’ĕl,

1Ch 28:6  and said to me, ‘Shelomoh your son is the one to build My house and My courtyards, for I have chosen him to be My son, and I Myself am a Father to him.

1Ch 28:7 ‘And I shall establish his reign forever, if he is strong to do My commands and My right-rulings, as it is this day.’

1Ch 28:8 “And now, before the eyes of all Yisra’ĕl, the assembly of יהוה, and in the hearing of our Elohim, guard and seek all the commands of יהוה your Elohim, so that you possess this good land, and leave it as an inheritance for your children after you forever.

1Ch 28:9  “As for you, my son Shelomoh, know the Elohim of your father, and serve Him with a perfect heart and with a pleasing life, for יהוה searches all hearts and understands all the intent of the thoughts. If you do seek Him, He is found by you; but if you forsake Him, He rejects you forever.

2Sa 7:5  “Go and say to My servant Dawiḏ, ‘Thus said יהוה, “Would you build a house for Me to dwell in?

2Sa 7:6  “For I have not dwelt in a house since the time that I brought the children of Yisra’ĕl up from Mitsrayim, even to this day, but have moved about in a Tent and in a Dwelling Place.

2Sa 7:7  “Wherever I have walked with all the children of Yisra’ĕl, have I ever spoken a word to anyone from the tribes of Yisra’ĕl, whom I commanded to shepherd My people Yisra’ĕl, saying, ‘Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?’ ” ’

2Sa 7:8  “And now, say to My servant Dawiḏ, ‘Thus said יהוה of hosts, “I took you from the pasture, from following the flock, to be ruler over My people, over Yisra’ĕl.

2Sa 7:9  “And I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies from before you, and have made you a great name, like the name of the great ones who are on the earth.

2Sa 7:10  “And I shall appoint a place for My people Yisra’ĕl, and shall plant them, and they shall dwell in a place of their own and no longer be afraid, neither shall the children of wickedness oppress them again, as at the first,

2Sa 7:11  even from the day I appointed rulers over My people Yisra’ĕl, and have caused you to rest from all your enemies. And יהוה has declared to you that He would make you a house.

2Sa 7:12  “When your days are filled and you rest with your fathers, I shall raise up your seed after you, who comes from your inward parts, and shall establish his reign.

2Sa 7:13  “He does build a house for My Name, and I shall establish the throne of his reign forever.

2Sa 7:14 “I am to be his Father, and he is My son. If he does perversely, I shall reprove him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men.

2Sa 7:15 “But My kindness does not turn aside from him, as I turned it aside from Sha’ul, whom I removed from before you.

2Sa 7:16 “And your house and your reign are to be steadfast forever before you – your throne is established forever.” ’ ”

2Sa 7:17  According to all these words and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to Dawiḏ.

Shelemoh built the physical house while Nathan built the spiritual house. Here is further proof

Zec 12:10 “And I shall pour on the house of Dawiḏ and on the inhabitants of Yerushalayim a spirit of favour and prayers. And they shall look on Me whom they pierced, and they shall mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son. And they shall be in bitterness over Him as a bitterness over the first-born.

Zec 12:11 “In that day the mourning in Yerushalayim is going to be great, like the mourning at Haḏaḏ Rimmon in the valley of Meḡiddo.

Zec 12:12 “And the land shall mourn, every clan by itself: the clan of the house of Dawiḏ by itself, and their women by themselves; the clan of the house of Nathan by itself, and their women by themselves;

Zec 12:13 the clan of the house of Lĕwi by itself, and their women by themselves; the clan of Shimʽi/Shimeon (LXX) by itself, and their women by themselves;

Zec 12:14  all the rest of the clans, every clan by itself, and their women by themselves.

While we know that Nathan from the house of Yahudah was part of the genealogy to Mashiyach, Shimeon is not visible in genealogy, so it is understood as per Yaaqob's prophecy about Shimeon and Lewi's cruel anger which brought him trouble in the land of Kanaan, they both would be divided and scattered in Yasharal.

Gen 49:5 “Shimʽon and Lĕwi are brothers, their weapons are implements of violence.
Gen 49:6 “Let my being not enter their council, let my esteem not be united to their assembly; because they slew a man in their displeasure, and they lamed an ox in pleasure.
Gen 49:7 “Cursed be their displeasure for it is fierce, and their wrath for it is cruel! I divide them in Yaʽaqoḇ and scatter them in Yisra’ĕl.

We know that Levi's sons were not given an inheritance as their portion was in refuge cities and their portions came to them from the offerings. But wasn't Lewi listed in the genealogy?

Luk 1:5 There was in the days of Herodes, the sovereign of Yehuḏah, a certain priest named Zeḵaryah, of the division of Aḇiyah. And his wife was of the daughters of Aharon, and her name was Elisheḇa.

Luk 1:35 And the messenger answering, said to her, “The Set-apart Spirit shall come upon you, and the power of the Most High shall overshadow you. And for that reason the Set-apart One born of you shall be called: Son of Elohim.

Luk 1:36 “And see, Elisheḇa your relative, she has also conceived a son in her old age. And this is now the sixth month to her who was called barren

'women by themselves' is an emphasis in the Zecharyah 12 prophecy of those weeping seeing the one who was pierced, while the genealogy itself was not listed from a woman but the prominent women did influence their seed. We won't get into the details but a few examples shall set the course.

Mat 2:17 Then was filled what was spoken by Yirmeyahu the prophet, saying, Mat 2:18 “A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing and weeping, and great mourning – Racḥĕl weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted, because they were no more.”

Rachel was dead and gone thousands of years ago but yet when Herodes killed all male children two years and below, she is mentioned as weeping for her children

Let's see the blessing given to Ruth when she was kinsman redeemed by Boaz

Rth 4:11  And all the people who were at the gate, and the elders, said, “Witnesses! יהוה make the woman who is coming to your house as Raḥĕl and as Lĕ’ah, the two who built the house of Yisra’ĕl. And prove your worth in Ephrathah and proclaim the Name in Bĕyth Leḥem. 

Rth 4:12  “And let your house be like the house of Perets, whom Tamar bore to Yehuḏah, of the seed which יהוה does give you from this young woman.” 

While ZecharYah says Zec 12:14  all the rest of the clans/mishpachah H4940, every clan/mishpchah H4940 by itself, and their women by themselves.

The word mishpachah comes from the word H8198 shipchah which means maidservants

Gen 29:24  And Laḇan gave his female servant Zilpah to his daughter Lĕ’ah as a female servant/shipchah H8198

Gen 29:29  And Laḇan gave his female servant Bilhah to his daughter Raḥĕl as a female servant/shipchah H8198

The rest of the mishpachah came from the shipchah/maid or female servants whom ZecharYah says will also mourn and their women by themselves.

If you notice the house of Dawid includes Nathan as Nathan was his son but ZecharYah mentioned the David's clan twice because Nathan was not the successor of Daivd. He by the Ruach keeps the difference between the royal seed which eventually died out as YechonaYah was the last of the kings of Yahudah and post exile there was no king in Yahudah but Governor's rule and Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel was a governor. While the physical seed took David's throne, Yahuah was silently building the house of Dawid through Nathan and made the switch at Neri who was the father of Shealtiel

Mat 1:12  And after the exile to Baḇel, Yeḵonayah brought forth She’alti’ĕl, and She’alti’ĕl brought forth Zerubbaḇel. 

Luk 3:27  of Yoḥanan, of Rephayah, of Zerubbaḇel, of She’alti’ĕl, of Neri, 

We already saw that Yekonayah died childless in Babylonian captivity so the switch at Neri and its logical conclusion we will see a bit later. Currently we are focusing on ZecharYah's prophecy.

Zec 12:12  “And the land shall mourn, every clan by itself: the clan of the house of Dawiḏ by itself, and their women by themselves; the clan of the house of Nathan by itself, and their women by themselves; 

Zec 12:13  the clan of the house of Lĕwi by itself, and their women by themselves; the clan of Shimeon (LXX) by itself, and their women by themselves; 

While the house of Dawid is one, Yahuah deliberately shows us the difference to show us the switch from Shelemoh's kingly theocratic lineage to Nathan's lineage of the governing ruler

Mic 5:2  “But you, Bĕyth Leḥem Ephrathah, you who are little among the clans of Yehuḏah, out of you shall come forth to Me the One to become Ruler/Mashal H4910 in Yisra’ĕl. And His comings forth1 are of old, from everlasting.”

H4910 mashal means governor

Matthew is precise in quoting Micha's prophecy showing us that Yahusha was also a Governor

Mat 2:6 And you Beyt Lechem, in the land of Yahudah, are not the least among the princes of Yahudah: for out of you shall come a Governor/Mashal, that shall rule my people Yashar’el.

Hag 1:1  In the second year of Dareyawesh the sovereign, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of יהוה came by Ḥaggai the prophet to Zerubbaḇel son of She’alti’ĕl, governor/pechah H6346 of Yehuḏah, and to Yehoshua son of Yehotsaḏaq, the high priest, saying, 

While the word for governor used here is different both the words mean the same

Gen 45:26  And they told him, saying, “Yosĕph is still alive, and he is governor/mashal H4910 over all the land of Mitsrayim.” And Yaʽaqoḇ’s heart ceased, for he did not believe them. 

Continuing with the ZecharYah prophecy its amazing to see the ones to mourn were Yahudah (son number 4 of Leah), Lewi (son number 3 of Leah), Shimeon (son number 2 of Leah). Reuben had already lost his birthright and hence, his name is missing.

When did Shimeon pierce Yahusha?


Gen 37:18 When they saw him from a distance and before he came close to them, they plotted against him, to kill him
Gen 37:19 They said to one another, Here comes this dreamer!
Gen 37:20 Now then, come and let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits; and we shall say, An evil beast devoured him. Then let us see what shall become of his dreams!
Gen 37:21 But Reuben heard and rescued him out of their hands and said, Let us not take his life.
Gen 37:22 Reuben said to them, Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but do not lay hands on him - that he might rescue him out of their hands, to restore him to his father
Gen 37:25 Then they sat down to eat a meal. And as they raised their eyes and looked, behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing aromatic gum and balm and myrrh, going to take them down to Mitsrayim.
Gen 37:26 Yahudah said to his brothers, What gain, that we kill our brother and cover up his blood?

Reuben the eldest said Let us not kill him but throw him into the pit
Yahudah said What is the profit in killing him? Let's sell him after all he is family.
Here we have no comments made by Leah's son number 2 Shimeon and son number 3 Levi. Hence one of them, most probably Shimeon was the one who said ''Now then, come let us kill him and and throw him into one of the pits.

We have scripture recording Yahusaph (Joseph) binding Shimeon before the eyes of their brothers as a guarantor until they brought Banyaman to him. Why did he choose only Shimeon? Isn't it evident that Shimeon was cruel to him as prophesied about him

Gen 42:21 Then they said to one another, Truly we are guilty concerning our brother, because we saw the distress of his soul when he pleaded with us, yet we would not listen; therefore this distress has come upon us.
Gen 42:22 Reuben answered them, saying, Did I not tell you, saying, Do not sin against the boy; and you would not listen? Therefore, behold, also his blood is required.
Gen 42:23 They did not know that Yoseph understood, for there was an interpreter between them.
Gen 42:24 He turned away from them and wept. But when he returned to them and spoke to them, he took Shimeon from them and bound him before their eyes

Like Shimeon weren't the chief priests, priests from house of Lewi responsible for the trial and death of Mashiyach and they stood in a fleshly priesthood and tried to murder the MalchiTsedeq priest Mashiyach.

Heb 7:12 For the priesthood being changed, of necessity there takes place a change of law

Yahusha brought forth the Malchitsedeq priesthood to light by abolishing the carnal priesthood and making us kings and priests who believe in Him, hence the Levitical priesthood was temporary.

Speaking about the ZacharYah 12 prophesy He was closely related to the Levitical priesthood as His mother was a close relative of Elisheba of the daughters of Aharon the Lewite

Speaking about Shimeon who was son number 2 of Leah and Yaaqob, when he saw Reuben his brother lost the firstborn birthright and that birthright going to Rachel's firstborn Yoseph instead of him as chronologically he was the heir after Reuben, he tried to kill Yoseph. But unknowingly he was piercing Messiah in Yoseph

How did the Lewites, Shimeonites settle in Yahudah?

2Ch 11:13  And from all their borders the priests and the Lĕwites who were in all Yisra’ĕl took their stand with him (Rehoboam). 

2Ch 11:14  For the Lĕwites left their open lands and their possessions and came to Yehuḏah and Yerushalayim, for Yaroḇʽam and his sons had rejected them from serving as priests unto יהוה, 

1Ki 15:8  So Aḇiyam slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the City of Dawiḏ. And Asa his son reigned in his place. 

1Ki 15:9  And in the twentieth year of Yaroḇʽam sovereign of Yisra’ĕl, Asa became sovereign over Yehuḏah. 

The Lewites  crossed over to Yahudah in the days of Yeroboam, Shimeonites had already received their inheritance within the inheritance of children of Yahudah 

Jos 19:1 And the second lot came out for Shimʽon, for the tribe of the children of Shimʽon for their clans. And their inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of Yehuḏah.

Jos 19:9 Out of the portion of the children of Yahudah was the inheritance of the children of Shim`on: for the part of the children of Yahudah was too much for them: therefore the children of Shim`on had their inheritance within the inheritance of them.

Yachin was one of the sons of Shimeon and there is nothing mentioned in scripture about him but Shelemoh mentioned his inheritance as one of the heads and inscribed his name on one of the bronze pillars at the entrance of the Set apart place.

2Ch 3:15 And at the front of the House he made two columns thirty-five cubits high, and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits/ammah H520.
2Ch 3:16 And he made wreaths of chainwork, as in the Speaking Place, and put them on top of the columns. And he made one hundred pomegranates, and put them on the wreaths of chainwork.
2Ch 3:17 And he set up the columns before the Hĕḵal, one on the right and the other on the left, and called the name of the one on the right Yaḵin, and the name of the one on the left Boʽaz.

2Ch 15:8  And when Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Oḏĕḏ the prophet, he took courage, and removed the abominations from all the land of Yehuḏah and Binyamin and from the cities which he had taken in the mountains of Ephrayim, and restored the altar of יהוה that was before the porch of יהוה, 

2Ch 15:9  and gathered all Yehuḏah and Binyamin, and those who sojourned with them from Ephrayim, and Menashsheh, and Shimʽon, for they came over to him in great numbers from Yisra’ĕl when they saw that יהוה his Elohim was with him. 

There were those of Ephrayim, Menashsheh and Shimon who sojourned with Yahudah and its understood that Ephrayim, Menashsheh & Shimon didn't cross over from Yeroboam's reign to Asa like the Lewites but from the cities of Yahudah to Yerushalayim in repentance, closer to Yahuah being still within their inheritance 

Thus, with the crossing over of the Lewites and Shimeon getting an inheritance within Yahudah they were both scattered in Yasharal as prophesied by Yaaqob their father. Yahudah absorbed them.

How was Ephrayim in Yahudah?

Rth 1:1  And it came to be, in the days when the rulers ruled, that there was a scarcity of food in the land. And a man from Bĕyth Leḥem, Yehuḏah, went to sojourn in the fields of Mo’aḇ, he and his wife and his two sons. 

Rth 1:2  And the name of the man was Elimeleḵ, and the name of his wife was Naʽomi, and the names of his two sons were Maḥlon and Kilyon – Ephrathites of Bĕyth Leḥem, Yehuḏah. And they went to the fields of Mo’aḇ and came to be there. 

Rth 2:1  And Naʽomi had a relative on her husband’s side, a man of great wealth, of the clan of Elimeleḵ, and his name was Boʽaz. 

Elimelek was an Ephrathite and if Boaz was a relative to Elimelek, its evident that he was both an Ephrathite as well as a Yahudite.

Mat 1:5  And Salmon (Yahudite) brought forth Boʽaz by Racḥaḇ, and Boʽaz brought forth Oḇĕḏ by Ruth, and Oḇĕḏ brought forth Yishai. 

Whenever a woman is mentioned in a genealogy its evident of either a child born through Torah of a dead brother or the woman being an Ephrathite or of Menashsheh for their women too received an inheritance

In the same genealogy listed by Matthew we see him by the ruach showing the difference between an immediate son and a son through a woman. 

Mat 1:3  And Yehuḏah brought forth Perets and Zeraḥ by Tamar, and Perets brought forth Ḥetsron, and Ḥetsron brought forth Ram. 

Tamar was the daughter in law of Yahudah and since Yahuah killed Er and Onan his sons for their wickedness , he had promised her his son Shelah in marriage and forgot about it. She acted as a harlot before Yahudah and took seed from her father in law Yahudah and that's why her name is mentioned by Matthew in 1:3

We already saw Shelemoh's example, he was a son according to Torah of Uriyah and immediate son of David. 

Mat 1:6  And Yishai brought forth Dawiḏ the sovereign, and Dawiḏ the sovereign brought forth Shelomoh by Uriyah’s wife. 

Matt 1:3 Mat 1:5  And Salmon brought forth Boʽaz by Racḥaḇ, and Boʽaz brought forth Oḇĕḏ by Ruth, and Oḇĕḏ brought forth Yishai. 

Who was Rachab?

The Hebrew text identifies Rahab as a zônāh, a prostitute. whereas actually an innkeeper, since the "consonants that make up the word ‘prostitute' in Hebrew (znh (זנה) are identical to the consonants of the Hebrew word for a female person who gives food and provisions (zunh)." Moreover, the Yahudite historian Josephus wrote that Rahab kept an inn (katagōgion in Greek).

 

H2109 & H2110 -the root word means to feed. It turns out that Rahab was a Hotel Owner. The one who fed people with food at her inn.

Jos 2:1  And Yehoshua son of Nun secretly sent out two men from Shittim to spy, saying, “Go, see the land, and Yeriḥo.” And they went, and came to the house of a woman, a whore/zunah H2181 (zayin uau nun hey), and her name was Raḥaḇ, and they lodged/shakab H7901 there. 

Jos 2:2  But it was reported to the sovereign of Yeriḥo, saying, “See, men from the children of Yisra’ĕl have come here tonight to search out the land.” 

The word here is zunah (female inn keeper) and not zanah (a harlot), the hey at the end makes the word feminine. The translators got it wrong. Moreover, its clear with the word shakab which means to lodge/take rest/lie down

She hid the spies on her roof top with the stalks of flax , what were stalks of flax doing on her roof top if not to feed those in her hotel/inn? 

Jos 2:6  But she had brought them up to the roof and hidden them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid out on the roof. 

When she was saved on the day of Yericho's fall, she was saved along with her father, mother and her brothers and all that she had, which harlot does harlotry with her father, mother and brothers being in the house.

Jos 6:23  And the young men, the spies, went in and brought out Raḥaḇ, and her father, and her mother, and her brothers, and all that she had. So they brought out all her relatives and set them outside the camp of Yisra’ĕl. 

Jos 6:24  And they burned the city and all that was in it with fire. Only the silver and gold, and the vessels of bronze and of iron, they put into the treasury of the House of יהוה. 

Jos 6:25  However, Yehoshua kept alive Racḥaḇ the INN KEEPER, and her father’s household, and all that she had. And she dwelt in the midst of Yisra’ĕl to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Yehoshua sent to spy out Yeriḥo. 

Jas 2:25  In the same way, was not Racḥaḇ the inn keeper also declared right by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way? 

Heb 11:31  By belief, Racḥaḇ the inn keeper did not perish with those who did not believe, having received the spies with peace. 

07342.  bxr  rachab,  raw-khawb' 

 

from 7337; roomy, in any (or every) direction, literally or figuratively:--broad, large, at liberty, proud, wide. 

The census:

Num 1:2  “Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Yisra’ĕl, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, every male, head by head, 

Num 1:3  from twenty years old and above, everyone going out to the army in Yisra’ĕl. Number them by their divisions, you and Aharon. 

Num 1:4  “And a man from every tribe should be with you, each one the head of his father’s house. 

Num 1:5  “And these are the names of the men who stand with you. From Re’uḇĕn: Elitsur, son of Sheḏĕy’ur. 

Num 1:6  “From Shimʽon: Shelumi’ĕl, son of Tsurishaddai. 

Num 1:7  “From Yehuḏah: Naḥshon, son of Amminaḏaḇ. 

Mat 1:4  And Ram brought forth Amminaḏaḇ, and Amminaḏaḇ brought forth Naḥshon, and Naḥshon brought forth Salmon. 

Mat 1:5  And Salmon brought forth Boʽaz by Racḥaḇ, and Boʽaz brought forth Oḇĕḏ by Ruth, and Oḇĕḏ brought forth Yishai. 

Nahshon the son of Amminadab 20 years old stood in the census taken during Moses's time whose son Salmon married Rachab this inn keeper to bring forth Boaz. While scripture is silent on Rachab's tribe, she would have been an Ephrathite as Boaz is mentioned as a relative of  Emimelech.

Rth 2:1  And Naʽomi had a relative on her husband’s side, a man of great wealth, of the clan of Elimeleḵ, and his name was Boʽaz. 

On the Bronze pillar Boaz's name was printed along with Yachin the son of Shimeon and Boaz represented Ephrathite as well as house of Yahudah and definitely was not not son of a harlot but one who is broad/wide/accomodating.

Rachab: Rach means travel abd beyt is the body/womb where the ruach brought forth the Messiah from

Boaz: Beyt which means house or womb where the oz/strength is

What about Lewi?

While Yahusha's mother was a Levite who obviously lived in Yahudah because the Lewites had crossed over to Yahudah and hence, the name of Levi mentioned in ZacharYah 12 among those mourning, and so is Nathan who naturally was both an Ephrathtie as well as a Yahudite, and Shimeon .

But when we see Shimeon's inheritance we understand Yahudah consumed within its tribe the tribes Yasharal as the Ruler was to come from him

Heb 7:14  For it is perfectly clear that our Master arose from Yehuḏah, a tribe about which Mosheh never spoke of concerning priesthood, 

In ZakarYah Shelemoh is not mentioned but Nathan and his clan among those who see the one who was pierced and mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son. Shelemoh’s seed fell in the conditional covenant not able to guard the Torah of Yahuah and the physical temple becoming desolate and the sukka of David seemed to be fallen but by giving His Ruach the Tabernacle is lifted in the ruach/spiritual

1Ch 5:1  As for the sons of Re’uḇĕn the first-born of Yisra’ĕl – he was the first-born, but because he profaned his father’s bed, his birthright was given to the sons of Yosĕph, son of Yisra’ĕl, so that the genealogy is not listed according to the birthright, 

1Ch 5:2  for Yehuḏah prevailed over his brothers, and from him came a ruler, although the birthright was Yosĕph’s –

Acts15:8 And the Elohim, who knows the heart, testified to them giving to them the Ruach ha Qodesh, just as He also gave/nathan to us,

Acts15:15 The words of the Prophets agree with this, as it is written

Acts15:16 “After this I shall return and I shall rebuild the tabernacle of Dawid which has fallen, and I shall rebuild its ruins, and I shall restore it,”

Acts15:17 “so that the remnant of mankind may seek Yahuah, even all the gentiles on whom My name has been called on them, said Yahuah, who is doing all this,”

1Chr 28:9….but if you forsake Him, He rejects you forever.

1Ki 11:4  And it came to be, when Shelomoh was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other mighty ones. And his heart was not perfect with יהוה his Elohim, as was the heart of his father Dawiḏ.

1Ki 11:5  And Shelomoh went after Ashtoreth the mighty one of the Tsiḏonians, and after Milkom the abomination of the Ammonites.

1Ki 11:6  Thus Shelomoh did evil in the eyes of יהוה, and did not follow יהוה completely, like his father Dawiḏ.

1Ki 11:7  Then Shelomoh built a high place for Kemosh the abomination of Mo’aḇ, on the hill that is east of Yerushalayim, and for Moleḵ the abomination of the children of Ammon.

1Ki 11:8  And so he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and slaughtered to their mighty ones.

1Ki 11:9  Therefore יהוה was enraged with Shelomoh, because his heart had turned away from יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, who had appeared to him twice,

1Ki 11:10  and had commanded him concerning this word, not to go after other mighty ones. But he did not guard what יהוה had commanded.

1Ki 11:11  And יהוה said to Shelomoh, “Because you have done this, and have not guarded My covenant and My laws, which I have commanded you, I shall certainly tear the reign away from you and give it to your servant.

Scripture records that Yahuah appeared to Shelemoh twice to turn him away from his wicked way but he did not heed the warnings from Yahuah and worshipped other gads.

Matthew                    Luke
Yeḵonyah	Addi
	Meleḵi
	Neri
She’alti’ĕl	She’alti’ĕl
Zerubbaḇel	Zerubbaḇel
Aḇihud	Rephayah
Elyaqim	Yoḥanan
Azor	Yehuḏah
Tsaḏoq	Yosĕph
Aqim	Shimʽi
Elihuḏ	Mattithyahu
Elʽazar	Maʽath
	Noḡah
	Ḥesli,
	Naḥum
	Amots
	Mattithyahu
	Yosĕph
	Yanah
	Meleḵi
	Lĕwi
Mattan	Mattithyahu
Yaʽaqoḇ	Ěli/Heli
Yosĕph	Yosĕph
Yahusha	Yahusha

Mat 1:11 And Yoshiyahu brought forth Yeḵonyah and his brothers at the time of the exile to Baḇel.

Mat 1:12 And after the exile to Baḇel, Yeḵonyah brought forth She’alti’ĕl, and She’alti’ĕl brought forth Zerubbaḇel.

Mat 1:13 And Zerubbaḇel brought forth Aḇihuḏ, and Aḇihuḏ brought forth Elyaqim, and Elyaqim brought forth Azor.

Mat 1:14 And Azor brought forth Tsaḏoq, and Tsaḏoq brought forth Aqim, and Aqim brought forth Elihuḏ.

Mat 1:15 And Elihuḏ brought forth Elʽazar, and Elʽazar brought forth Mattan, and Mattan brought forth Yaʽaqoḇ.

Mat 1:16 And Yaʽaqoḇ brought forth Yosĕph the husband of Miryam, of whom was born יהושע who is called Messiah

Luk 3:23  And when יהושע Himself began, He was about thirty years of age, being, as reckoned by law, son of Yosĕph, of Ěli,

Luk 3:24 of Mattithyahu, of Lĕwi, of Meleḵi, of Yanah, of Yosĕph,

Luk 3:25 of Mattithyahu, of Amots, of Naḥum, of Ḥesli, of Noḡah,

Luk 3:26 of Maʽath, of Mattithyahu, of Shimʽi, of Yosĕph, of Yehuḏah,

Luk 3:27 of Yoḥanan, of Rephayah, of Zerubbaḇel, of She’alti’ĕl, of Neri,

Luk 3:28 of Meleḵi, of Addi, of Qosam, of Elmoḏam, of Ěr,

Luk 3:29 of Yehoshua, of Eliʽezer, of Yorim, of Mattithyahu, of Lĕwi,

Luk 3:30 of Shimʽon, of Yehuḏah, of Yosĕph, of Yonam, of Elyaqim,

Luk 3:31 of Melea, of Menna, of Mattattah, of Nathan, of Dawiḏ,

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We see clearly that Yakonyah the descendant of Shelemoh was cursed and hence his seed could never prosper on David’s throne, while many people take 1Chr 3:17-19 to show these a Yakonyah’s literal sons, yet there are others who say this Shealtiel and Zerubabel were a pair of different entity in both lineages. But no one clearly can show how Yakonyah’s seed could continue until Mashiyach if his seed was cursed. The only answer to this is understanding Neri giving a legal heir to Yakonyah to keep his name alive in Yahudah and that son was Shealtiel. Shealtiel was now the borrowed son to be the successor to the throne of David and the breaker of the curse for he was as per Torah the son of Yakonyah and by descent the son of Neri from Nathan’s lineage. Since, just as his great grandfather David was both an Ephrathite as well as a Yahudite, Shealtiel still remained a Yahudite by descent from Nathan and by Torah through Yakonyah.

Shealtiel H7597 means ‘borrowed/shaal H7592 from AL/H410’. Names mean a lot in Hebrew and his name shows he was the borrowed one from AL (short form for Alahym) to show kindness to the house of David. Shealtiel brought forth Pedayah and Pedayah Zerubbabel (1 Chr 3:17-19) 

Zerubabel laid the foundation of the temple post the Babylonian captivity and was the governor over Yahudah

Hag 1:1 In the second year of Dareyawesh the sovereign, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of יהוה came by Ḥaggai the prophet to Zerubbaḇel son of She’alti’ĕl, governor of Yehuḏah, and to Yehoshua son of Yehotsaḏaq, the high priest, saying,

Zerubbabel foreshadowed the Saviour who would come to save His people from their sins as it was, he who laid the foundation of the heykal/temple. It is prophesied of him linking him to descending down to Mashiyach where the sword of brother would bring down the reigns and the reigns of the nations and in that day Yahuah says He will take Zerubabel and make him a signet.

Hag 2:21 “Speak to Zerubbaḇel, the governor of Yahuḏah, saying, ‘I am shaking the heavens and earth.

Hag 2:22 ‘And I shall overturn the throne of reigns. And I shall destroy the might of the gentile reigns and overturn the chariots and their riders. And the horses and their riders shall come down, each by the sword of his brother.

Hag 2:23 ‘In that day,’ declares יהוה of hosts, ‘I shall take you, Zerubbaḇel My servant, son of She’alti’ĕl,’ declares יהוה, ‘and shall make you as a signet, for I have chosen you,’ declares יהוה of hosts.”

That’s exactly what happened, Shelemoh’s descendants were brought down by the sword of his brother Nathan’s descendant’s and rebuilding the tabernacle of their father David through the invisible sword of Yahuah’s dabar working through them, all to fulfill Yahuah’s purpose.

It doesn’t end here, Zerubabel had 2 sons (who are not immediate sons but descendants, see: 1Chr 3:19-21 where Rephayah and Obadyah (Abihud) are mentioned but not his immediate sons) and since he was now representing as a GOVERNER over Yahudah to the entire house of Yahudah as a ruler, his one son's lineage from Abihud/Obadyah continued in the lineage identified as Shelemoh’s son by Torah a borrowed seed (through Shealtiel).

1Ch 3:17 And the sons of Yeḵonyah the captive: She’alti’ĕl his son,

1Ch 3:18 and Malkiram, and Peḏayah, and Shenatstsar, Yeqamyah, Hoshama, and Neḏaḇyah.

1Ch 3:19 And the sons of Peḏayah: Zerubbaḇel and Shimʽi. The sons of Zerubbaḇel: Meshullam, and Ḥananyah, and Shelomith their sister,

1Ch 3:20  and Ḥashuḇah, and Ohel, and Bereḵyah, and Ḥasaḏyah, Yushaḇ-Ḥeseḏ, five.

1Ch 3:21 And the sons of Ḥananyah: Pelatyah and Yeshayah, the sons of Rephayah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Oḇaḏyah, the sons of Sheḵanyah.

There is a ‘colon’ after Yekonyah the captive showing Shealtiel to be his son, we already saw Shealtiel was his borrowed son. v 18 are sons of Shealtiel and we see Pedayah there, v 19 shows Zerubbabel as son of Pedayah, again there is a colon after Pedayah. Hananyah is mentioned as the son of Zerubbabel and Rephayah was the son of Hananyah. Many of them listed are not immediate sons but sons tied up to their grand father who were rulers/occupying a prominent position.

Abihud H31 comes from two Hebrew words ‘Ab’ and ‘hud’ and means ‘Father of majesty/esteem’ and he is named as Obadyah in 1 Chr 3:21 and his name here means ‘Serving Yah’

His other descendants name was ‘Rephayah’ which means ‘Healed/Repaired by Yah’. His son Rephayah is attributed in a continuity to Nathan’s lineage which wasn’t royal but governing as a support to building the spiritual house of Yahuah.

Going by Matthew’s genealogy from Shealtiel the borrowed son into Shelemoh’s lineage through the Torah of the dead brother we come down to Yaaqob who was the immediate father of Yoseph

Mat 1:16 And Yaʽaqoḇ brought forth Yosĕph the husband of Miryam, of whom was born יהושע who is called Messiah

And in Luke we see Yoseph recokened by Torah the son of Heli

Luk 3:23 And when יהושע Himself began, He was about thirty years of age, being, as reckoned by law, son of Yosĕph, of Heli, 

Gal 4:4 But when the fullness of the days came, the Elohim sent forth His Son to born of a woman, and was set/nathan under the hand/yad of the Torah,

The loan son given to Shelemoh was given back to Nathan according to Torah under whose hand Aluahym set His Son born of a woman. 

That is why in the renewed covenant we are called ‘royal priesthood’ as Yahusha ha Mashiyach was Nathan/set under the hand of the Torah to redeem those who were under the hand of the Torah so that we receive the right-ruling of the sons

Gal 4:5 to redeem those who were under the hand of the Torah, so that we may receive the right-ruling of the sons

Thus we see Yahuah in His wisdom kept his promise to David that his throne will be established forever, Yahuah in His wisdom turned to Nathan to set(nathan) to set up the Tabernacle of David which was fallen down. Nathan H5416 also means 'to give'