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Jehoiakim<br />
Jeconiah (Jehoachin, coniah) |<br />
Machiram ==== Shenazar<br />
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Shealthiel === Pediah Jekamiah<br />
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Zerubabel<br />
Five Sons of Zerubabel Table 21 |<br />
missing names are not much of a problem because in those days people had several names and these names must have been aliases of the children of Zerubabel. Abiud and Rhesa must have been for all practical reasons the two sons from among the five. These names The<br />
do not appear as such anywhere else and we have therefore no way of confirming the assumption.<br />
3.4.3 The Zelophehad custom: Joseph, Heli and Mary however<br />
when we reach pinnacle of the tree, Luke claims that Joseph is the son of Heli while Matthew puts Joseph as the son of Jacob. Here we have to call for another adoption custom which is widely practiced all over the world. In this custom if a family had no male offspring to Again<br />
THE HISTORIC JESUS<br />
M.M.NINAN<br />
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a lineage, one of the husbands of the girls may be adopted heir family. They will then be legal heir to the family titles. Mary being the only daughter of Heli, had adopted Joseph according to the law of Zelophahad. This mode of marriage is confirmed by God provide<br />
the division of Palestine by Moses. Num 27:1 The daughters of Zelophehad son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Makir, the son of Manasseh, belonged to the clans during
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