And the sons of Onam ,.... The son of Jerahmeel by his other wife: were Shammai and Jada. And the sons of Shammai; Nadab, and Abishur ; whose posterity are mentioned in the two following verses. read more
And the name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail ,.... Of the same name was a wife of Rehoboam, a daughter of his grandfather David's eldest brother, Eliab, 2 Chronicles 11:18 . and she bare him Ahban, and Molid ; which are no more mentioned, they perhaps leaving no posterity. read more
And the sons of Nadab ,.... The eldest son of Shammai, 1 Chronicles 2:28 , Seled and Appaim; but Seled died without children ; and therefore we hear no more of him. read more
And the sons of Appaim; Ishi. And the sons of Ishi: Sheshan ,.... Though they had each of them but one son, yet the plural number is used, their posterity being included, as in 1 Chronicles 2:8 and so in the next clause: and the children of Sheshan; Ahlai ; who, from 1 Chronicles 2:34 appears to be a daughter. read more
And the sons of Jada the brother of Shammai ,.... 1 Chronicles 2:28 , Jether and Jonathan: and Jether died without children ; the posterity of Jonathan are given the next verse. read more
And the sons of Jonathan; Peleth and Zaza ,.... Of whom no mention is made elsewhere: these were the sons of Jerahmeel ; not only his immediate sons, but their posterity, called from him Jerahmeelites, 1 Samuel 27:10 . read more
Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters ,.... And but one of that sort, whose name was Ahlai, 1 Chronicles 2:31 the plural being put here for the singular; or, if that is the name of a son, as some think, he died in his father's lifetime, and left no issue; so that there only remained daughters, and it seems but one by the next verse: and Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha ; one born in his house, and brought up by him, and a proselyte, such an one as Eliezer in... read more
Whose name was Jarha - "And he gave him his liberty, and gave him Sheshan his daughter to wife." - T. read more
The Authorized Version is not justified in substituting children for the Hebrew "sons;" the object evidently being to make this statement reconcilable with 1 Chronicles 2:34 , which says that Sheshan had only daughters. The difficulty can be removed, possibly, by supposing that Ahlai died (yet see 1 Chronicles 11:41 ), or that, at the time to which 1 Chronicles 2:34 refers, only daughters were in question. Wall's conjecture, that Ahlai of 1 Chronicles 2:31 is the same with Attai ... read more
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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Chronicles 2:18-55
The persons mentioned in the former paragraph are most of them such as we read of, and most of them such as we read much of, in other scriptures; but very few of those to whom this paragraph relates are mentioned any where else. It should seem, the tribe of Judah were more full and exact in their genealogies than any other of the tribes, in which we must acknowledge a special providence, for the clearing of the genealogy of Christ. 1. Here we find Bezaleel, who was head-workman in building the... read more