1 Chronicles 3

1 Chronicles 3:1-9

The sonnes of David] See the Observations on 1 Sam. XVI. 11.

1 Chronicles 3:17

Salatheil] Hebrew, Shealtiel, said to be the sonne of Iechoniah. Matth. I. 12. And so here, sonne of Iechoniah Assir, that is, strictly bound, prisoner in Babylon. For we read not of any sonne called Assir that Iechoniah had: yet this Salathiel is named the sonne of Neri, Luke III. 27. who came by many descents, of another line, that is, of Nathan the younger brother of Solomon; from which line came our Saviour; and not of Solomons line: And though Iechoniah may seeme to have seed and sonnes more, out of Ier. XXII. 28, 30. and 1 Chron.

III. 17 18. Yet he is doomed childlesse, Ier. XXII. 29, 30. because neither Salathiel, if he were his sonne, nor any of Iechoniah’s race, (Zedekiah the last King being Uncle to Iechoniah) did succeed him in the Regality, to sit on the throne of David, though in a kinde of soveraignty; as Zerubbabel the sonne, or grandchilde rather of Salathiel by Pedaiah, did succeed: in regard of which successions, both Salathiel, and after also Zerubbabel, may be called sonnes. See Ezra III. 2, 8. and V. 2. Neh. XII. 1 Hag.

I. 1, 12, 14. and II. 3. 24. Of Iehojakim the father of Iechoniah, it is likewise said, He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David that is, for any time worth speaking of; for his sonne Iechoniah reigned but three moneths and tenne dayes; Ier. XXXVI. 30. 2 Chron. XXXVI. 9.

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Sonnes of Zerubbabel] Among his sonnes, Abihud, and Rhesa are not mentioned (unlesse under other names) nor else where found in the Old Testament: And yet from them two, the Genealogies, Matth. I. 13. and Luke III. 27. are drawn and derived; which makes some suppose, that Zerubbabel, and this here, to be different persons.