1 Chronicles 3:11
in 1 Chronicles 3Abijah was his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son, Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,
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Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,
KJV
Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 3
Commentary
3 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Ahaziah - Called “Jehoahaz” by a transposition of the elements composing the name, and “Azariah,” probably by a transcriber’s error (see marginal notes and references).
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 succession from father to son. Chronicles gives only the names here, and Kings tells the failures and reforms of these same kings. The line then passes to brothers and captives.
This site's exposition
Abijah was his son
Barnes notes that Ahaziah is also called Jehoahaz and Azariah. The list passes over Athaliah, the queen who held the throne for six years between Ahaziah and Joash in 2 Kings 11:1 to 3. Only David's male line is counted.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
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
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| יוֹרָ֥ם | yoram | Joram | H3141 → | |
| בְּנ֛וֹ | beno | son his | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| אֲחַזְיָ֥הוּ | ʾachazyahu | Ahaziah | H274 → | |
| בְנ֖וֹ | veno | son his | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| יוֹאָ֥שׁ | yoash | Joash | H3101 → | 47 times |
| בְּנֽוֹ׃ | beno | son his | H1121 → | 4930 times |
יוֹרָ֥םJoram
yoramH3141 →
בְּנ֛וֹson his
benoH1121 →4930 times
אֲחַזְיָ֥הוּAhaziah
ʾachazyahuH274 →
בְנ֖וֹson his
venoH1121 →4930 times
יוֹאָ֥שׁJoash
yoashH3101 →47 times
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
2 Chronicles 21:1And Jehoshaphat rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the City of David. And his son Jehoram reigned in his place.
it leads to
- 1 Kings 22:50
And Jehoshaphat rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the city of his father David. And his son Jehoram reigned in his place.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- 1 Kings 22:50
Through
2 Chronicles 21:17So they went to war against Judah, invaded it, and carried off all the possessions found in the king’s palace, along with his sons and wives; not a son was left to him except…
it leads to
- 2 Chronicles 22:1
Then the people of Jerusalem made Ahaziah, the youngest son of Jehoram, king in his place, since the raiders who had come into the camp with the Arabs had killed all the older sons.…
- 2 Chronicles 25:23
There at Beth-shemesh, Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz. Then Jehoash brought him to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- 2 Chronicles 22:1
Through
2 Kings 8:24And Jehoram rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the City of David. And his son Ahaziah reigned in his place.
it leads to
- 2 Chronicles 22:6
so he returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds they had inflicted on him at Ramah when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. Then Ahaziah son of Jehoram king of Judah went…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- 2 Chronicles 21:20
Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. He died, to no one’s regret, and was buried in the City of David, but not in the…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- 2 Chronicles 22:6
Through
2 Kings 8:16In the fifth year of the reign of Joram son of Ahab over Israel, Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat succeeded his father as king of Judah.
it leads to
- 2 Kings 1:17
So Ahaziah died according to the word of the LORD that Elijah had spoken. And since he had no son, Jehoram succeeded him in the second year of the reign of Jehoram son of…
- 2 Kings 3:1
In the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat’s reign over Judah, Jehoram son of Ahab became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria twelve years.
- 2 Kings 1:17
Through
2 Kings 11:21Joash was seven years old when he became king.
it leads to
- 2 Chronicles 24:1–14
Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother’s name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba.
- 2 Chronicles 24:1–14
Where this verse is studied
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About 1 Chronicles

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Berean Standard Bible, 2 Kings 11:1 to 3; Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.
