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Matthew 1:10

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Hezekiah became the father of Manasseh. Manasseh became the father of Amon. Amon became the father of Josiah.

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Babylon was the imperial city of the Neo-Babylonian Empire in Mesopotamia, where Judah’s people were exiled after Jerusalem’s fall in 586 BC. In Matthew’s genealogy, “the deportation to Babylon” marks a decisive judgment and exile that frames the Davidic line’s continuation toward Christ.

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