1 Chronicles 3:1
THE SONS OF DAVID] Some of the names that follow are given differently in the corresponding sections in 2 Samuel 3:2; 2 Samuel 5:13 : cp. also 2 Samuel 14:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SONS OF DAVID] Some of the names that follow are given differently in the corresponding sections in 2 Samuel 3:2; 2 Samuel 5:13 : cp. also 2 Samuel 14:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
GENEALOGIES (CONTINUED) The genealogies here include the sons of David, his successors on the throne of Judah, and the descendants of Jeconiah (Jehoiachin).... [ Continue Reading ]
NATHAN] According to St. Luke's genealogy he was ancestor of our Lord, 2 Samuel 3:31. BATH-SHUA] i.e. Bathsheba.... [ Continue Reading ]
JOHANAN] This son of Josiah was never king and presumably died before his father. SHALLUM] probably the Jehoahaz of 2 Kings 23:30, since he was younger than his brother and successor, Jehoiakim: cp. also Jeremiah 22:11.... [ Continue Reading ]
JECONIAH] called also Jehoiachin (2 Kings 24:6) and Coniah (Jeremiah 22:24). ZEDEKIAH HIS SON] The Zedekiah of this verse is probably identical with the Zedekiah of 1 Chronicles 3:15, and consequently was brother (not son) of Jehoiakim (2 Kings 24:17), and uncle of Jehoiachin (Jeconiah) whom he succ... [ Continue Reading ]
JECONIAH; ASSIR] RV 'Jeconiah the captive.' SALATHIEL] the Shealtiel of Ezra 3:2. He is called son of Jeconiah because he was his heir, but he belonged to the line of Nathan, a younger son of David.... [ Continue Reading ]
SHENAZAR] possibly the Sheshbazzar of Ezra 1:8 : see note there.... [ Continue Reading ]
ZERUBBABEL] here represented as son of Pedaiah and nephew of Salathiel (Shealtiel); but in Ezra 3:2 styled 'son, of Shealtiel': see note there.... [ Continue Reading ]
PELATIAH, etc.] It seems most likely that this and the five names that follow all represent sons of Hananiah, constituting a single generation, in which case the generations reckoned after Zerubbabel amount to six. Zerubbabel lived about 520 b.c., and if 30 years be reckoned as a generation, the six... [ Continue Reading ]