the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan,
The presence of Shealtiel and Zerubbabel in the lists of both Solomon and Nathan’s descendants is another problem (Matthew 1:12; Luke 3:27). King Jeconiah, a descendant of Solomon, may have adopted Shealtiel, a descendant of Nathan and Zerubbabel’s father, into his line (cf. 1 Chronicles 3:17; Jeremiah 22:30). Then Zerubbabel’s descendants continued the two lines of Solomon and Nathan, one branch of the family perpetuating the legal line of Solomon and the other the bloodline of Nathan. [Note: See Plummer, p. 104.] Another possibility is that there were two sets of fathers and sons named Shealtiel and Zerubbabel, one set in Joseph’s legal line and the other in his bloodline.