Objection: In Matthew 1:13 we read that Abihud is the son Zerubbalel. This is wrong because Zerubbabel had five sons, according to 1 Chronicles 3:19-20, and none of them is named Abihud.
Response: It was a Jewish custom for a person to be called by a variety of names. This custom is also practiced among the Arabs. This custom spread among the Jews in a special way during the time of the Captivity. A proof of this is what is mentioned in Daniel 1:6-7.
In any case, we can say Matthew copied the genealogy from Zerubbabel to Christ from the records kept by the Jews. These records were kept in Jerusalem and were guarded with utmost care. After every battle, the priests would revise their genealogies to determine which of the priests' wives had been taken captive and which were not fit to be priests' wives any longer.
Josephus wrote that genealogies of the Jews existed for a period of 2,000 years and that they were preserved until the destruction of Jerusalem. Some of the princes in the captivity mentioned that their ancestry went back to David. Others demonstrated that their line went back to the prophet Samuel.
The Jews' zeal in preserving their ancestry was important to them, for they could thereby boast of their origins and preserve their rights in land claims and positions of service.
Josephus claimed that he himself had found his ancestry in public records kept by the Jews. This being the case, how much more then would the Jews have preserved the public records of their kings' genealogies. Had Matthew deviated from the Jewish records of their records of their kings, they would have opposed him. But none objected to his record, because he had recorded facts accepted by all.
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