Was Jesus cursed according to Jeremiah 22:30?

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TonyChanYT

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The descendants of Jehoiachin were cursed in Jeremiah 22:
28 Is this man Jehoiachin a despised, broken pot, an object no one wants? ...
30 This is what the LORD says: “Record this man as if childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime, for none of his offspring will prosper, none will sit on the throne of David or rule anymore in Judah.”
Yet, Matthew 1:
11 and Josiah the father of Jeconiah [i.e., Jehoiachin] and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon. 12 After the exile to Babylon: Jeconiah was the father of Shealtiel, ...
15 Elihud the father of Eleazar, Eleazar the father of Matthan, Matthan the father of Jacob, 16 and Jacob the father of Joseph,
Joseph could not have sat on the throne of David because he was a biological descendant of Jehoiachin.
the husband of Mary, and Mary was the mother of Jesus who is called the Messiah.
Here, Matthew did not say that Jesus was a son of Joseph. In fact, Jesus was a legal son of Joseph and not a biological descendant of Jehoiachin. Jesus was immune from the curse in Jeremiah 22:30.
 
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The descendants of Jehoiachin were cursed in Jeremiah 22:
Joseph could not have sat on the throne of David because he was a biological descendant of Jehoiachin
The throne of David was taken from Jehoiachin by Nebuchadnezzar and given to Zedekiah.
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2Ki 24:8-17 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his mother's name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem. (9) And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father had done. (10) At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged. (11) And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it. (12) And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign. (13) And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said. (14) And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land. (15) And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon. (16) And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all that were strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon. (17) And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
 
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Jesus was not the son of Joseph but rather the only begotten Son of God.
Matthew 3:17. “And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

He did however take upon himself the curse of every man; the curse of sin and the separation from God.
Galatians 3:
13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us:

Colossians 2:
14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
 
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The descendants of Jehoiachin were cursed in Jeremiah 22:

Yet, Matthew 1:

Joseph could not have sat on the throne of David because he was a biological descendant of Jehoiachin.

Here, Matthew did not say that Jesus was a son of Joseph. In fact, Jesus was a legal son of Joseph and not a biological descendant of Jehoiachin. Jesus was immune from the curse in Jeremiah 22:30.

I am not sure what your point is. Regardless, I agree that none of Jeconiah’s (Coniah, Jehoiachin) sons sat on the throne of Judah. Also, I agree that Jesus was not a genealogical descendant of Joseph. However, by Shealtiel,-a son of Jeconiah-is of the genealogical linage of Mary; and, Luke identified Nathan (David’s son) in Mary’s linage-1 Chronicles 3:5; Luke 3:31.

Note: Shealtiel is called the son both of Jeconiah and of Neri. (Matthew 1:12; Luke 3:27) By Jewish tradition, Neri, as a father-in-law, is considered a father also because Shealtiel married an unnamed daughter of his.