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In Ruth 4:17 Ruth's child is
called "a son born to Naomi"; who
was Ruth's mother-in-law and not even an ancestor of
the child in the strict sense. Zerubbabel is called
familiarly the son of Shealtiel (Ezr. 3:2;
Hag. 1:1), and is so stated to be in the
genealogies of both Matt. 1:12 and
Luke 3:27, though in reality he
was his nephew (1 Chron. 3:17-19).
That descent as reckoned in genealogies is not always that of
actual parentage appears from the comparison of the ancestry
of our Lord as given by Matthew and by Luke.