ContradictionsReading order 250Bible context 2 min read
Who was Zechariah's father?
Matthew combines a paternal name resembling the prophet's with a temple killing resembling the account of Jehoiada's son. The passages do not explicitly identify all these figures as one man.
- Textual conflict
- Interpretive tension
- The passages pull in different directions, but the conflict depends on how their wording, scope, or narrative context is read.
- Importance
- Supporting
- A supporting event, teaching, or biographical claim.
Matthew combines a paternal name matching the prophet with a killing location matching Jehoiada's son, but the personal identification remains inferred.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
The prophet Zechariah is Berechiah's son and Iddo's grandson
In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the Lord unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
Zechariah 1:1
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:Zechariah 1
The Zechariah killed in the temple court is Jehoiada's son
And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the Lord, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the Lord, he hath also forsaken you. And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the Lord.