Charles Spurgeon Commentary Matthew 1:10

"and Hezekiah begat Manasseh; and Manasseh begat Amon; and Amon begat Josiah;" — Matthew 1:10 (ASV)

A line of kings of a mixed character—not one of them perfect, and some of them as bad as bad could be. Three are left out altogether; even sinners who were fit only to be forgotten were in the line of this succession, and this shows how little can be made of being born of the will of man or of the will of the flesh. In this special line of descent, salvation was not of blood, nor of birth.

Especially let us think of someone like Manasseh being among the ancestors of our Lord, as if to hint that, in the line that comes after Him, there would be some of the chief of sinners who would be miracles of mercy. Again we say, how near does Jesus come to our fallen race by His genealogy!