Surah 2:136 says,
Say, [O believers], "We have believed in Allah and what has been revealed to us and what has been revealed to Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac and Jacob and the Descendants and what was given to Moses and Jesus and what was given to the prophets from their Lord. We make no distinction between any of them, and we are Muslims [in submission] to Him."
I do not believe in the Koran but you do. Surah 10:64 says,For them are good tidings in the worldly life and in the Hereafter. No change is there in the words of Allah . That is what is the great attainment.
Know also this Surah. Surah 5:47 says,And let the People of the Gospel judge by what Allah has revealed therein. And whoever does not judge by what Allah has revealed - then it is those who are the defiantly disobedient.
2 Timothy 3:16-17All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
Objection: We read in Matthew 1:11 that Josiah begat Jeconiah and his brothers during the Babylonian Captivity. There are three problems with the verse: Josiah was not Jeconiah's father, but rather his grander (1 Chronicles 3:15-16), for it is written that Josiah's sons were Johanan, Jehokiakim, Zedekiah and Shallum; Josiah died twenty years before the Babylonian Captivity, so we cannot say that he and his brothers were born during this time.
Response: The problems presented here vanish when we examine what is written in one of the handwritten copies. In the Greek we read: "Josiah was the father of Jehoiakim (or Joakim) and Jehoakim were the father of Jeconiah" (see the Kreisbach readings). Thus, Josiah was Jehoiakim's father (also known as Eliakim and Jochim), and his brothers were Johanan, Zedekiah, and Shallum (1 Chronicles 3:15). Joakim was Jekiniah's father during the Babylon Captivity, but we must remember that the children of Israel were taken to Babylon three times. The first exile was in 598 B.C., the fourth year of Joakim, son of Josiah. In that year, Nebuchadnezzar captured Jerusalem and removed a large number of captives to Babylon. The second exile occured during the reign of Jeconiah, son of Joakim, who reigned three months and then taken into captivity in 597, along with many notables and aristocrats of Isreal. The third exile happened in 586 B.C., during the reign of Zedekiah.
Kalmet said that it is necessary to read Matthew 1:11 in this way, "Josiah was the father of Joakim and his brothers. Joakim was the father of Jeconiah during the first Babylonian exile." What confirms the correctness of reading verse 11 in this way is what Matthew writes: "So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations and from the captivity in Babylon until the Christ are fourteen generations"; thus, 42 in all:
The line of Abraham: Issac, Jacob, Judah, Perez, Hezron, Ram, Amminadab, Nahshon, Salmon, Boaz, Obed, Jesse and David.
The line of Solomon: Rehoboam, Abidjah, Asa, Jehoshaphat, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, Manasseh, Amon, Josiah and Jeconiah.
The line of Jeconiah: Shealtiel, Zerubbababel, Abiud, Eliakim, Azor, Zadok, Akim, Eliud, Eleazar, Matthan, Jacob, Joesph and Jesus.
Thus, the problem the objector raised can be explained in terms of taqdeem and taakheer which, in Arabic, respectively mean to place subsequent things first or to place initial later along (such as placing Solomon before David).
Although one could do without an interpretation of Matthew's expression, saying that Joakim was omitted because he was a ploy in the hands of the king of Egypt (2 Chronicles 36:4) and that he, like Joash, was not buried in the Tombs of the Kings, but cast out on the walls of Jerusalem (Jeremiah 22:19, 36:30), the statement would nonetheless be correct. We can say that Josiah begot Jeconiah, because he was his grandfather.
Matthew 1:11,and Josiah the father of Jeconiah and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon.
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