1 Chronicles 3:22

_AND THE SONS OF SHECHANIAH; SHEMAIAH; AND THE SONS OF SHEMAIAH; HATTUSH, AND IGEAL, AND BARIAH, AND NEARIAH, AND SHAPHAT, SIX._ The sons of Shemaiah - or Shimei (1 Chronicles 3:19: cf. Zechariah 12:13)....

Verse 1 Chronicles 3:22. _THE SONS OF SHEMAIAH - SIX._] FIVE only are found in the text, and the _versions_ give us no assistance; neither do the MSS. correct the place. If the _father_ be not here included with his _sons_, some _name_ must be lost out of the text....

SIX - There are only five names in the Hebrew text. The Syriac anti Arabic versions supply “Azariah” between Neariah and Shaphat. The question of the proper arrangement of the genealogy of the descendants of Zerubbabel 1 Chronicles 3:19 is important in its bearing on the interesting point of the time at which the canon of the Old Testament was closed. Assuming the average of a generation to be 20 years in the East, the genealogy of the present chapter, drawn out according to the Hebrew text, does not descend below about 410 B.C., and thus falls within the probable lifetime of Nehemiah. If, further, we regard it as most probable that Ezra died before 431 B.C., and that this passage in question was not wholly written by him, this does not disprove the theory (see the introduction

EXPOSITION 1 CHRONICLES 3:1 The whole of this chapter is occupied with the descendants of DAVID: the first nine verses of it with his own sons, classified according to the place of their birth, Hebron or Jerusalem; the remaining verses with the line of kings of his house to Jeconiah and Zedekiah (1 Chronicles 3:16), the grandsons of Zerubbabel (1 Chronicles 3:21), and descendants of Shechaniah (1 Chronicles 3:24). To the seven years and six months (2 Samuel 2:11)

1 Chronicles 3:19....

CHAPTER 3 FROM DAVID TO ZEDEKIAH _ 1. The sons of David (1 Chronicles 3:1)_ 2. David's line to Zedekiah (1 Chronicles 3:10) 3. The sons of Jeconiah (1 Chronicles 3:16) Six sons were born to David during his reign in Hebron. Four are mentioned as the offspring from Bath-shua, another name for Bath-sheba (2 Samuel 11:3). Then follow the names of other nine sons. As the name Elishama appears twice, it has been suggested that one is Elishua (2 Samuel 5:15). Eglah is called David's wife. Some cl

PART I (1 Chronicles 1-9). GENEALOGICAL LISTS, TOGETHER WITH GEOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL NOTES. These Chapter s form a general introduction to the whole work. They contain the following genealogies, often in an incomplete form: Adam to Israel (1 Chronicles 1:1 to 1 Chronicles 2:2) with the exception of Cain's descendants (Genesis 4:16) the whole material is taken from Genesis 1-36; Judah (1 Chronicles 2:3); David (1 Chronicles 3:1); Judah again, and made up of fragments ...

SIX. Hebrew. _Shishshah,_ which may be. proper name and not the numeral....

The Davidic Line from Zerubbabel The text of these verses is very uncertain. In 1 Chronicles 3:20 the names of five sons are given, but their father's name (perhaps _Meshullam_) is wanting. In 1 Chronicles 3:21-22 the LXX. differs from the Heb. in such a way as to affect the number of steps in the genealogy; the Heb. seems to reckon but _one_generation between Hananiah and Shemaiah, the LXX. on the contrary reckons _six_; the result on the whole genealogy being that the LXX. counts _eleven_generations after Zerubbabel as against _six_in the Heb. In 1 Chronicles 3:22 again the sons of Shemaiah are reckoned to be six, but only _five_names are given both in Heb

SIX— _Five._ Houbigant. See Calmet. REFLECTIONS.—For seventeen descents, the crown of Judah went from father to son in a direct line. Just before the captivity, the lineal descent was interrupted. _Jeconiah, Assir the captive, 1 Chronicles 5:17_. (not a descendant of his, but Jeconiah himself), though he was written childless respecting the succession to the throne, yet seems to have had several children in Babylon, 1 Chronicles 3:17. Zerubbabel, here said to be the son of Pedaiah, is elsewhere called the son of Salathiel: either his grandson, if Pedaiah was Salathiel's son, or if his brother, as it seems more probable, Pedaiah, as next of kin, might, on his dying childless, marry his widow, and raise up seed to his brother, which seems the best solution of the d