From David to Zedekiah, twenty-one kings reigned in Judah, yet in Matthew's list, only fifteen appear. Three of the six omitted, Shallum/Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, and Zedekiah, were brothers of the same generation following Josiah, but Shallum and Zedekiah are not direct ancestors of Jesus Christ, providing a logical reason for their exclusion. Matthew further skips over Jehoiakim, naming his son Jehoiachin or Jeconiah as Josiah's son, though he is literally his grandson. A renegade queen, Athaliah, granddaughter of Omri, king of Israel, is also excluded from both lists due to her evil actions, including usurping the throne by killing her son Ahaziah's heirs, though some of Judah's most wicked kings remain in Christ's ancestry. Additionally, three other kings listed in I Chronicles 3 are absent from Matthew's genealogy, with uncertainty surrounding their identities due to a confusion of names. The possible excluded kings are either Ahaziah, Joash, and Amaziah, potentially due to their connection to Athaliah, or Joash, Amaziah, and Azariah, better known as Uzziah, perhaps omitted to highlight a shared disastrous flaw. After Solomon, Israel divided into the northern kingdom of Israel with ten tribes and the southern kingdom of Judah with two tribes. The books of Kings primarily record the history of the northern kings, focusing on factual accounts from a human perspective, while Chronicles emphasizes the southern kings of Judah, offering a divine viewpoint with spiritual insights into declines, repentances, deliverances, and reformations. Among the wicked kings included in Matthew's list are Jehoram, whose evil stemmed from a foolish marriage and led to tragic results for Judah, dying unlamented and unburied among other kings; Ahaziah, influenced by his mother Athaliah and her wicked family; and Manasseh, who led Judah into grave sins including astrology, witchcraft, and human sacrifice, yet repented in captivity, though not buried with Judah's kings. Despite their wickedness, these kings remain in Christ's lineage, while three others are excluded, seemingly not for their evil but to draw attention to a vital spiritual lesson. The confusion of names, such as Jehoahaz also called Ahaziah and Azariah, and Uzziah also known as Azariah, complicates identifying the omitted kings, but the assumption holds that Joash, Amaziah, and Uzziah are the excluded ones from Jesus Christ's family tree.