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.

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