
Text -- 1 Chronicles 3:20-24 (NET)




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Wesley: 1Ch 3:21 - -- All these both parents and their sons blended together, are mentioned as the sons of Hananiah, and branches of the royal stock.
All these both parents and their sons blended together, are mentioned as the sons of Hananiah, and branches of the royal stock.

Wesley: 1Ch 3:22 - -- Including the father. But the Hebrew word, Shisha, which is rendered six, may be the proper name of one of the sons of Shemaiah.
Including the father. But the Hebrew word, Shisha, which is rendered six, may be the proper name of one of the sons of Shemaiah.
Clarke: 1Ch 3:22 - -- 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 ...
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.

Clarke: 1Ch 3:24 - -- And Anani - "This is the King Messiah who is to be revealed."- T. Jarchi says the same, and refers to Dan 7:13 : Behold, one like the Son of man cam...
And Anani - "This is the King Messiah who is to be revealed."- T. Jarchi says the same, and refers to Dan 7:13 : Behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds (

TSK: 1Ch 3:22 - -- Hattush : Ezr 8:2
six : Five only are enumerated in the text, which Houbigant would substitute as the true reading; but probably the father is reckone...
Hattush : Ezr 8:2
six : Five only are enumerated in the text, which Houbigant would substitute as the true reading; but probably the father is reckoned with his sons.

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Barnes -> 1Ch 3:22
Barnes: 1Ch 3:22 - -- Six - There are only five names in the Hebrew text. The Syriac anti Arabic versions supply "Azariah"between Neariah and Shaphat. The question o...
Six - There are only five names in the Hebrew text. The Syriac anti Arabic versions supply "Azariah"between Neariah and Shaphat.
The question of the proper arrangement of the genealogy of the descendants of Zerubbabel 1Ch 3:19-24 is important in its bearing on the interesting point of the time at which the canon of the Old Testament was closed. Assuming the average of a generation to be 20 years in the East, the genealogy of the present chapter, drawn out according to the Hebrew text, does not descend below about 410 B.C., and thus falls within the probable lifetime of Nehemiah.
If, further, we regard it as most probable that Ezra died before 431 B.C., and that this passage in question was not wholly written by him, this does not disprove the theory (see the introduction to Chronicles), that Ezra was the author of Chronicles. Deuteronomy is by Moses, though the last chapter cannot be from his hand. The "dukes of Edom"might he an insertion into the text of Genesis Gen 36:40-43 without the authorship of the remainder of the work being affected by it. So here; Nehemiah, or Malachi, may have carried on the descent of the "sons of David"as far as it had reached in their time, adding to the account given by Ezra one, or at the most two verses.
Poole: 1Ch 3:20 - -- Either of Zerubbabel; or of Meshullam, as is gathered from hence, that the sons of Hananiah (brother to Meshullam, 1Ch 3:19 ) are named 1Ch 3:21 , a...
Either of Zerubbabel; or of Meshullam, as is gathered from hence, that the sons of Hananiah (brother to Meshullam, 1Ch 3:19 ) are named 1Ch 3:21 , and therefore those 1Ch 3:20 are presumed to be the sons of Meshullam. But that is no necessary inference, for Meshullam possibly had no sons, and therefore he passeth from him to Hananiah, 1Ch 3:21 .

Poole: 1Ch 3:21 - -- All these men, both parents and their sons here blended together, are mentioned as the sons of Hananiah, and branches of the royal stock.
All these men, both parents and their sons here blended together, are mentioned as the sons of Hananiah, and branches of the royal stock.

Poole: 1Ch 3:22 - -- To wit, including the father. But the Hebrew word shisha , which is rendered six, may be the proper name of one of the sons of Shemaiah, who may be...
To wit, including the father. But the Hebrew word shisha , which is rendered six, may be the proper name of one of the sons of Shemaiah, who may be so called, because he was the sixth son.

Poole: 1Ch 3:23 - -- The sons of Neariah who alone is here mentioned, because his elder brethren probably died without issue.
The sons of Neariah who alone is here mentioned, because his elder brethren probably died without issue.
Haydock: 1Ch 3:21 - -- Son. Hebrew, "sons of Hananias, Phaltias, and Jesacias, the sons of Raphias, the sons of Arnan,...( 22 ) the sons of Sechenias, Semeia, &c." But t...
Son. Hebrew, "sons of Hananias, Phaltias, and Jesacias, the sons of Raphias, the sons of Arnan,...( 22 ) the sons of Sechenias, Semeia, &c." But the Septuagint and Syriac have read in a more intelligible manner, (Calmet) intimating that these people were lineally descended from each other, (Haydock) while the Hebrew leaves us ignorant of the names of the sons of Rephaias, &c. (Calmet)

Haydock: 1Ch 3:22 - -- Six. Counting the father in the number. (Challoner) ---
Hebrew shisha, or "six." Sixtus V with several manuscripts, Gothic edition, &c., take i...
Six. Counting the father in the number. (Challoner) ---
Hebrew shisha, or "six." Sixtus V with several manuscripts, Gothic edition, &c., take it improperly for the name of a man. (Calmet) ---
Semeia and his five sons are attributed to Sechenias. (Worthington) ---
Others think that a name has been lost. (Castalion)

Haydock: 1Ch 3:24 - -- Oduia, the 12th from Zorobabel, which shews that this has been inserted since the time of Esdras, and that the author was very careful to preserve th...
Oduia, the 12th from Zorobabel, which shews that this has been inserted since the time of Esdras, and that the author was very careful to preserve the genealogical tables, as it was not known from what family of the descendants of David the Messias should be born. (Calmet) ---
St. Matthew gives us a different genealogy. (Du Hamel) (Calmet)
Gill -> 1Ch 3:19-24
Gill: 1Ch 3:19-24 - -- And the sons of Pedaiah were, Zerubbabel and Shimei,.... Here arises a difficulty, since elsewhere Zerubbabel is said to be the son of Shealtiel, Hag ...
And the sons of Pedaiah were, Zerubbabel and Shimei,.... Here arises a difficulty, since elsewhere Zerubbabel is said to be the son of Shealtiel, Hag 1:1 some think this is not the same Zerubbabel here as there; so Grotius u; but I see no reason for that; but this difficulty may be removed by observing, that if Pedaiah was a son of Salathiel, as Kimchi thinks, then Zerubbabel, being his grandson, may be called his son, as grandsons are sometimes called sons in Scripture; or rather, Salathiel, having no children, adopted Zerubbabel, his brother's son, and made him successor in the government; so that he was the son of Pedaiah by birth, and of Salathiel by adoption; or else Salathiel dying without children, his brother Pedaiah, according to the law, married his widow, and by her had Zerubbabel, who was the proper son of Pedaiah, and the legal son of Salathiel:
and the sons of Zerubbabel; Meshullam: who is called Abiud, Mat 1:13 another son of his, with their father, is mentioned in this verse, and five more in the next. From hence to the end of the chapter, the genealogy is carried on from the captivity of Babylon, out of which Zerubbabel came, to the coming of Christ; and if Ezra was the writer of this book, as is generally thought, who was contemporary with Zerubbabel, this account must be written by another hand: and it may be observed, that it is carried on in the same number of generations as in Matthew; and here it stands thus:
Zerubbabel, Hananiah, Jesaiah, Rephaiah, Arnan, Obadiah, Shecaniah, Shemaiah, Neariah, Elioenai, Anani; in Matthew thus, "Zerubbabel, Abiud, Eliakim, Azor, Sadoc, Achim, Eliud, Eleazar, Matthan, Jacob, Joseph"; the difference in names may be accounted for by their having two names; and it is remarkable that the Targum makes Anani to be the King Messiah, who was to be revealed; which, though it makes one generation less to his time, yet plainly shows that the Jews expected the Messiah to come at the end of this genealogy, and about the time Jesus the true Messiah did. Anani is reckoned by other Jews a name of the Messiah, who is said to come in the clouds of heaven, which "Anani" signifies; see Gill on Dan 7:13.

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