1 Chronicles 3
McGee1 Chronicles 3:5
Did you ever hear of Shimea and Shobab? We know Solomon, but who is Nathan? Well, if you go over to the genealogy of the Lord Jesus, which is recorded in the Gospel of Luke, you will find that the line goes through Nathan rather than through Solomon. Mary, the mother of Jesus, traced her ancestry through Nathan, while Joseph’s genealogy is traced through Solomon. In Matthew we see that the Lord Jesus gets His legal title to the throne of David through Solomon, and in Luke we see that he gets His blood title to the throne of David through Nathan. This is very important, because in the ancestry of Solomon, Jeconiah (whom the Lord calls Coniah) appears, and the Lord declares that “…no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah” (Jer_22:30). This one man produced a short circuit in the line leading to the Messiah, which is further proof that Joseph could not be the father of the Lord Jesus and that Jesus must be virgin born. In chapter 4 the posterity of Judah through Caleb and Shelah is followed, also the tribe of Simeon. Chapter 5 traces the tribe of Reuben to the captivity.