John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Chronicles 3:17
And the sons of Jeconiah ,.... For though he was pronounced childless, Jeremiah 22:30 , that respects not his having no children in any sense, but none to succeed him in the kingdom: Assir ; which signifies bound, or a prisoner, because, as Kimchi thinks, he was born in a prison, his father then being a captive in Babylon; but rather it refers to Jeconiah himself, and is an appellation of him, and to be rendered: the sons of Jeconiah the captive : which agrees best with the Hebrew... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Chronicles 3:10-24
David having nineteen sons, we may suppose them to have raised many noble families in Israel whom we never hear of in the history. But the scripture gives us an account only of the descendants of Solomon here, and of Nathan, Luke 3:31 The rest had the honour to be the sons of David; but these only had the honour to be related to the Messiah. The sons of Nathan were his fathers as man, the sons of Solomon his predecessors as king. We have here, 1. The great and celebrated names by which the... read more