1 Chronicles 3:22
in 1 Chronicles 3The six descendants of Shecaniah were Shemaiah and his sons: Hattush, Igal, Bariah, Neariah, and Shaphat.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And the sons of Shecaniah: Shemaiah. And the sons of Shemaiah: Hattush, and Igal, and Bariah, and Neariah, and Shaphat, six.
KJV
And the sons of Shechaniah; Shemaiah: and the sons of Shemaiah; Hattush, and Igeal, and Bariah, and Neariah, and Shaphat, six.
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 3
Commentary
5 notes on this verseThe 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.
This site's exposition
Hashubah, Ohel, Berechiah
on 1 Chronicles 3:20-24
From Zerubbabel's children the list runs on to Anani in verse 24, so David's house still has sons and grandsons after the return from Babylon. Jewish tradition, recorded by Jarchi and repeated by Clarke, reads the name Anani as a title of the Messiah.
This site's exposition
The six descendants of Shecaniah
Five sons of Shemaiah are named, so the count of six includes Shemaiah himself, as Wesley suggests. Clarke adds that otherwise a name has dropped from the text. A Hattush of David's line returned with Ezra in Ezra 8:2.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Six - Including the father. But the Hebrew word, Shisha, which is rendered six, may be the proper name of one of the sons of Shemaiah.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
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.
The words behind it
11 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּבְנֵ֥י | uvenei | and [the] sons of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| שְׁכַנְיָ֖ה | shekhanyah | Shecaniah | H7935 → | 10 times |
| שְׁמַעְיָ֑ה | shema'yah | Shemaiah | H8098 → | 41 times |
| וּבְנֵ֣י | uvenei | and [the] sons of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| שְׁמַעְיָ֗ה | shema'yah | Shemaiah | H8098 → | 41 times |
| חַטּ֡וּשׁ | chatush | Hattush | H2407 → | |
| וְ֠יִגְאָל | veyigol | and Igal | H3008 → | |
| וּבָרִ֧יחַ | uvariach | and Bariah | H1282 → | |
| וּנְעַרְיָ֛ה | unearyah | and Neariah | H5294 → | 3 times |
| וְשָׁפָ֖ט | veshafat | and Shaphat | H8202 → | 8 times |
| שִׁשָּֽׁה׃ | shishah | six | H8337 → | 216 times |
וּבְנֵ֥יand [the] sons of
uveneiH1121 →4930 times
שְׁכַנְיָ֖הShecaniah
shekhanyahH7935 →10 times
שְׁמַעְיָ֑הShemaiah
shema'yahH8098 →41 times
וּבְנֵ֣יand [the] sons of
uveneiH1121 →4930 times
שְׁמַעְיָ֗הShemaiah
shema'yahH8098 →41 times
חַטּ֡וּשׁHattush
chatushH2407 →
וְ֠יִגְאָלand Igal
veyigolH3008 →
וּבָרִ֧יחַand Bariah
uvariachH1282 →
וּנְעַרְיָ֛הand Neariah
unearyahH5294 →3 times
וְשָׁפָ֖טand Shaphat
veshafatH8202 →8 times
שִׁשָּֽׁה׃six
shishahH8337 →216 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
3 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Ezra 8:2from the descendants of Phinehas, Gershom; from the descendants of Ithamar, Daniel;
it leads to
- 1 Chronicles 6:3–15
The children of Amram: Aaron, Moses, and Miriam. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
- 1 Chronicles 24:1–6
These were the divisions of the descendants of Aaron. The sons of Aaron were Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
- 1 Chronicles 3:1
These were the sons of David who were born to him in Hebron: The firstborn was Amnon by Ahinoam of Jezreel; the second was Daniel by Abigail of Carmel;
- 1 Chronicles 6:3–15
Where this verse is studied
On this page
Studies1
About 1 Chronicles
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Berean Standard Bible, Ezra 8:2; John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Keil, The Books of the Chronicles.