In Matthew 1:12 we find that Zerubbabel is the son of Shealtiel. This is wrong! He is the son of Pedaiah, the nephew of Shealtiel, as documented in 1 Chronicles 3:17-19.
Response:
In Erza 3:2, 5:2, Nehemaiah 12:1 and Haggai 1:1, we find that Zerubbabel was the son of Shealtiel. Josephus the historian also documents that Zerubbabel was the son of Shealtie! If 1Chronicles 3:19 states that Zerubvabel was the son of Pedaiah, this is owing to the fact that the Jews relate a grandson to his grandfather, calling him his son. Genesis 29:5 calls Laban the son of Nabor, when in fact he was the son of Bethuel, son of Nahor (Genesis 24:47). However, if we are to understand that Shealtiel and Pedaiah were brothers, then it follows that Zerubbabel was the natural son of one of them and the legal son of the other, by the constraints of Levitical law. In any case, if Zerubbabel was the son of Shealtiel, as documented by Matthew, it is correct from every angle. This agrees with the rest of the sacred books as well as history.
