1 Chronicles 3:16-19
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
16 The sons of Jehoiakim were: Jeconiah, his son; Zedekiah, his son.(A)
17 The sons of Jeconiah[a] the captive were: Shealtiel,(B) 18 Malchiram, Pedaiah, Shenazzar,[b] Jekamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah. 19 The sons of Pedaiah were Zerubbabel[c] and Shimei. The sons of Zerubbabel were Meshullam and Hananiah; Shelomith was their sister.
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- 3:17–24 The descendants of King Jeconiah down to the time of the Chronicler. If twenty-five years are allowed for each generation, the ten generations between Jeconiah and Anani (the last name on the list) would put the birth of the latter at about 405 B.C.—an important item in establishing the approximate date of the Chronicler’s work in its final form.
- 3:18 Shenazzar: presumably he is the same as Sheshbazzar (Ezr 1:8, 11; 5:14–16), the prince of Judah who was the first Jewish governor of Judah after the exile. Both forms of the name probably go back to the Babylonian name Sin-ab-ussar, meaning “O [god] Sin, protect [our] father!”
- 3:19 Zerubbabel: here called the son of Pedaiah, though elsewhere (Hg 1:12, 14; 2:2, 23; Ezr 3:2, 8; 5:2; Neh 12:1) his father’s name is given as Shealtiel. The latter indication may merely point to the fact that Zerubbabel succeeded Shealtiel as head of the house of David.
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