1 Chronicles 3

1 sons of David. This line is now carried on from ii. 17. The descendants of David are more particularly recorded than any others, as being not only the royal family of Judah, but also the family “of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came” (Rom. i. 3; ix. 5).

Daniel. Called Chileab in 2 Sam. iii. 3.

5 these were born, etc. We have two other lists of David’s sons, agreeing in the main with this: see 2 Sam. v. 14, 16; 1 Chron. xiv. 4-7. From comparing these lists, it seems likely that the first Eliphelet and Nogah died in childhood.

Bath-shua. A form of Bath-sheba.

15 sons of Josiah. Of Josiah’s sons only the three younger appear in the subsequent history; probably the firstborn, Johanan, died early. Some, indeed, suppose that the son of Josiah mentioned in 2 Kings xxiii. 30 is Johanan; but, from Jer. xxii. 11, we learn that it was Shallum who succeeded Josiah, under the name Jehoahaz. He was third in age, although here put fourth.

16. Zedekiah his son. Zedekiah was successor to his nephew Jehoiachin or Jeconiah. The word “son” may be here used, as elsewhere, meaning successor, to keep up the form of the genealogy begun in ver. 10, and only interrupted in ver. 15 to introduce the four sons of Josiah.

17. Assir. As the word “Assir” means captive, the sentence may be read thus: “The sons of Jeconiah the captive (see R.V.) were Salathiel,” etc. Respecting this king, Jeremiah prophesied, “Write this man childless” (Jer. xxii. 30); which is supposed to mean that no son of his would succeed him on the throne.

Salathiel. “Shealtiel,” R.V. In Luke iii. 27 we learn that Salathiel was the son of Neri, of the family of Nathan. But as the royal branch failed in Jehoiachin, he became heir, and is called son. He, too, had no son; and therefore Zerubbabel, the son of his brother Pedaiah (19), became heir, and is called his son: see Ezra v. 2.