1 Chronicles 3:10
in 1 Chronicles 3Solomon’s son was Rehoboam:
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ASV
And Solomon’s son was Rehoboam, Abijah his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son,
KJV
And Solomon’s son was Rehoboam, Abia his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son,
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 3
Commentary
4 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Abia - Rather, “Abijah,” as in 2 Chr. 11–14, where the Hebrew word is exactly the same.
This site's exposition
Solomon’s son was Rehoboam
on 1 Chronicles 3:10-14
Verses 10 to 14 run the royal line in one column from Solomon to Josiah, sixteen kings in direct father to son succession, a transmission the old commentators call rare among the world's crowns and read as the reward promised David for his own piety. Chronicles gives only the names here; the failures and reforms of these same kings already stand fully told in the parallel Kings exposition. The column ends at Josiah, the last king of this line to die on the throne before it breaks into brothers and captives in the verses that follow.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And Solomon's son was Rehoboam,.... From hence to the end of the fourteenth verse, David's successors are reckoned, according to the order of their reign, unto Josiah and his sons: Solomon, Rehoboam, Abia, Asa, Jehoshaphat, Joram, Ahaziah, Joash, Amaziah, Azariah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, Manasseh, Amon, Josiah, in all sixteen.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
Solomon's son was Rehoboam, &c.--David's line is here drawn down to the captivity, through a succession of good and bad, but still influential and celebrated, monarchs. It has rarely happened that a crown has been transmitted from father to son, in lineal descent, for seventeen reigns. But this was the promised reward of David's piety.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
Ahaziah his son, Joash From Solomon to Joash were eight generations, and since David foresaw that his seed would perish in the days of Joash through Athaliah, as is written in this Book (II Chron.:10): “..
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 3 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּבֶן־ | uven- | and [the] son of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה | shelomoh | Solomon | H8010 → | 291 times |
| רְחַבְעָ֑ם | rechavam | Rehoboam | H7346 → | |
| אֲבִיָּ֥ה | ʾaviyah | Abijah | H29 → | 25 times |
| בְנ֛וֹ | veno | son his | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| אָסָ֥א | ʾasa' | Asa | H609 → | |
| בְנ֖וֹ | veno | son his | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| יְהוֹשָׁפָ֥ט | yehoshafat | Jehoshaphat | H3092 → | |
| בְּנֽוֹ׃ | beno | son his | H1121 → | 4930 times |
וּבֶן־and [the] son of
uven-H1121 →4930 times
שְׁלֹמֹ֖הSolomon
shelomohH8010 →291 times
רְחַבְעָ֑םRehoboam
rechavamH7346 →
אֲבִיָּ֥הAbijah
ʾaviyahH29 →25 times
בְנ֛וֹson his
venoH1121 →4930 times
אָסָ֥אAsa
ʾasa'H609 →
בְנ֖וֹson his
venoH1121 →4930 times
יְהוֹשָׁפָ֥טJehoshaphat
yehoshafatH3092 →
בְּנֽוֹ׃son his
benoH1121 →4930 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 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
1 Kings 15:24And Asa rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the city of his father David, and his son Jehoshaphat reigned in his place.
it leads to
- Matthew 1:8
Asa was the father of Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, and Joram the father of Uzziah.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Matthew 1:8
Through
1 Kings 11:43And Solomon rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of his father David. And his son Rehoboam reigned in his place.
it leads to
- Matthew 1:7
Solomon the father of Rehoboam, Rehoboam the father of Abijah, and Abijah the father of Asa.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- 1 Kings 2:10
Then David rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David.
- 2 Kings 21:18
And Manasseh rested with his fathers and was buried in his palace garden, the garden of Uzza. And his son Amon reigned in his place.
- Matthew 1:7
Through
2 Chronicles 17:1Asa’s son Jehoshaphat reigned in his place, and he strengthened himself against Israel.
it leads to
- 1 Kings 15:24
And Asa rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the city of his father David, and his son Jehoshaphat reigned in his place.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- 2 Chronicles 32:5
Then Hezekiah worked resolutely to rebuild all the broken sections of the wall and to raise up towers on it. He also built an outer wall and reinforced the supporting terraces of the City…
- 1 Kings 15:24
Through
1 Kings 14:31And Rehoboam rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the City of David; his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite. And his son Abijam reigned in his place.
it leads to
- 2 Chronicles 12:16
And Rehoboam rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David. And his son Abijah reigned in his place.
- 2 Chronicles 12:16
Through
1 Kings 15:8And Abijam rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David, and his son Asa reigned in his place.
it leads to
- 2 Chronicles 14:1
Then Abijah rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David. And his son Asa reigned in his place, and in his days the land was at peace for ten years.
- 2 Chronicles 14:1
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.