In Matthew 1:12, a man named “Jechonias’” appears in Jesus’ genealogy. This was Jehoiachin, also called Jeconiah or Coniah, one of the last Kings of Judah. Because of his sins, God pronounced a curse on Jeconiah, as we read in Jer. 22:24, 30, “As I live, declares the Lord, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, […]