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. read more
And Anani - "This is the King Messiah who is to be revealed." - T. Jarchi says the same, and refers to Daniel 7:13 ; : Behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds ( ענני ananey ) of heaven. For this application of the word he gives a fanciful reason, not worthy to be repeated. The Syriac and Arabic omit several names in this table, and make only twenty-three verses in the chapter: but such differences are frequent in the books of Chronicles. read more
EXPOSITION 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 ) of David's reign at... read more
In this verse we have the form Bathshua for the familiar name Bathsheba, i.e. בַת־שׁוַּע for בַת־שֶׁבַע , in which latter word שֶׁבַע is a shorter form of שְׁבוּעָה . In the same verse we have עַמִּיאֵל here for אֱלִיעָם in 2 Samuel 11:3 . The former name occurs often, e.g. Numbers 13:12 ; 2 Samuel 9:4 , 2 Samuel 9:5 ; 2 Samuel 17:27 ; 1 Chronicles 26:5 . The component parts of both words are the same, but their order is different—the meaning of the one... read more
This verse plainly adds concubines , perhaps the ten spoken of in 2 Samuel 15:16 , to the number of the mothers of the foregoing sons. The mention of only one daughter of David, viz. Tamar , follows the manifest ordinary rule, that daughters are not recorded at all, except for one of two reasons—either that through a daughter the line was saved, or that the daughter had from some special reason made a place for herself in history. read more
Though the Authorized Version has Abia the Hebrew word is אֲבִיָּה both here and in 2 Chronicles 13:1 , 23 (or Authorized Version, 2 Chronicles 14:1 ), in both of which passages, as also elsewhere, our Authorized Version has Abijah. Another form is Abijam ( אֲבִיָּם ), as in 1 Kings 14:31 and elsewhere. A corrupt form ( אֲבִיָּחוּ ) is found in 2 Chronicles 13:20 . We have the name in the New Testament genealogy ( Matthew 1:7 , Matthew 1:8 ). read more
The line of royal descent from David, is now rapidly carried down in these verses—first , as far as good King Josiah, sixteen generations in all (omitting, quite consistently, Athalia, who reigned by her own usurpation for six years on the death of her son Azariah); and then, by four successions (viz. two brothers, sons of Josiah, and a grandson and great-grandson of Josiah), to the Captivity. read more
Ahaziah . This name is found as Azariah in 2 Chronicles 22:6 ; and, by a shifting of the derivative part of the word, as Jehoahaz in 2 Chronicles 21:17 ; thus, אֲחַזְיָהוּ or יְהוֹאָחָז read more
Azariah. This name is found in 2 Chronicles 26:1 ; 2 Chronicles 27:2 , as Uzziah; but in the Second Book of Kings it is found sometimes as Uzziah and sometimes as Azariah in the very same chapter (cf. 2 Kings 15:13 and 2 Kings 15:17 , 2 Kings 15:23 and 2 Kings 15:32 , and see Gesenius, 'Lexicon,' sub voce ) . We have the name as Azariah in Matthew 1:8 , Matthew 1:9 . read more
Get Bible verse every day in your inbox
Read on Mobile
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Chronicles 3:19
The sons of Pedaiah - Houbigant thinks these words should be omitted. Pedaiah is wanting in the Arabic and Syriac. If this be omitted, Zerubbabel will appear to be the son of Salathiel, according to Matthew 1:12 , and not the son of Pedaiah, as here stated. read more