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In the New Testament, the genealogy of Jesus according to the Gospel of Luke traces Jesus's lineage back to King David through the line of Nathan,[3] while the Gospel of Matthew traces it through Solomon, the line of Joseph, his legal father.[4] Specifically, in Luke 3:31 the genealogy of Jesus according to Luke, Jesus's lineage connects to Nathan through the biblical figure Heli, the son of Matthat.[3] Meanwhile, the Gospel of Matthew makes no mention of Nathan. Rather, in Matthew 1:16 Jesus's lineage is connected to Jacob which eventually relates Jesus to Solomon rather than Nathan.[5]

One conventional explanation for these differences, from as early as John of Damascus, is that Nathan is the ancestor of the Virgin Mary, while Solomon is the ancestor of Mary's husband Joseph. The blood curse on the line of Jeconiah who was a descendant in the line of Solomon, so the genealogy in Matthew is tainted with a blood curse from Jeconiah all the way to Joseph. No descendant of Jeconiah would qualify as King of Israel.[6]

Another explanation for these differences is yibbum, as offered by John of Damascus: "One ought also to observe this, that the law was that when a man died without seed, this man's brother should take to wife the wife of the dead man and raise up seed to his brother."[7] From this he proposes it is possible that "when Mathan died, Melchi, who was of the lineage of Nathan and the son of Levi and brother of Panther, married the wife of Mathan. It was she who was the mother of Jacob, and from her Melchi begot Heli. Thus, Jacob and Heli were born of the same mother, but Jacob was of the lineage of Solomon, while Heli was of the lineage of Nathan. Heli, however, who was of the lineage of Nathan, died childless, and his brother Jacob, who was of the lineage of Solomon, took his wife and raised up seed for his brother and begot Joseph. So, while Joseph was by nature a son of Jacob of the descent of Solomon, he was by law son of Heli, who was of the line of Nathan."[8]