1 Chronicles 3:16
in 1 Chronicles 3The successors of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, and Zedekiah.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And the sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son.
KJV
And the sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son.
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 3
Commentary
4 notes on this verseAnd the sons of Jehoiakim; Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son. This is not the Zedekiah mentioned in the preceding verse; for he was not the son but the uncle of Jeconiah, unless he should be called his son because he succeeded him in the kingdom; but he seems to be another of that name, nowhere else mentioned, and not the son of Jeconiah in any sense; he is not reckoned among them in the following verses, but of Jehoiakim.
This site's exposition
the sons of Josiah were
on 1 Chronicles 3:15-16
Josiah's four sons are ordered by more than birth: Johanan is named nowhere else in Scripture and likely died young, and Shallum, the throne name Jehoahaz carried in Kings, stands fourth though he was the older of the two brothers who briefly reigned. Verse 16 then places a second Zedekiah as Jehoiakim's son, a name distinct from Josiah's son in the verse before, and the commentators read it either as a king otherwise unrecorded or as Chronicles calling a successor a son whether or not the blood ran that way. Kings supplies the fuller story of this generation's rapid turnover, four rulers inside twenty three years, that Chronicles compresses here to a name list.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
How seldom has a crown gone in a direct line, from father to son, as it did here, for seventeen generations! This was the recompense of David's piety. About the captivity the lineal descent was interrupted, and the crown went from a nephew to an uncle, a presage of the glory's departing from that house.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
Zedekiah his son - If this be the same who was the last king of Judah, before the captivity, the word son must be taken here to signify successor; for it is certain that Zedekiah was the successor of Jeconiah, and that Zedekiah was the son of Josiah, and not of Jehoiakim.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
The descendants of Jehoiakim: his son Jeconiah, his son Zedekiah. Jeconiah named his son Zedekiah after his uncle Zedekiah.
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
And the sons of Jeconiah: Assir, Shealtiel his son. These were both his sons.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּבְנֵ֖י | uvenei | and [the] sons of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| יְהוֹיָקִ֑ים | yehoyakim | Jehoiakim | H3079 → | |
| יְכָנְיָ֥ה | yekhaneyah | Jeconiah | H3204 → | |
| בְנ֖וֹ | veno | son his | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| צִדְקִיָּ֥ה | tzidkiyah | Zedekiah | H6667 → | |
| בְנֽוֹ׃ | veno | son his | H1121 → | 4930 times |
וּבְנֵ֖יand [the] sons of
uveneiH1121 →4930 times
יְהוֹיָקִ֑יםJehoiakim
yehoyakimH3079 →
יְכָנְיָ֥הJeconiah
yekhaneyahH3204 →
בְנ֖וֹson his
venoH1121 →4930 times
צִדְקִיָּ֥הZedekiah
tzidkiyahH6667 →
בְנֽוֹ׃son his
venoH1121 →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 Kings 24:17Then the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s uncle, king in his place and changed his name to Zedekiah.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 37:1
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made Zedekiah son of Josiah the king of Judah, and he reigned in place of Coniah son of Jehoiakim.
Reached by 3 separate paths from here.
- Jeremiah 37:1
Through
Matthew 1:11and Josiah the father of Jeconiah and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 27:20
which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take when he carried Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon, along with all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem.
- Jeremiah 27:20
Through
2 Kings 24:8Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother’s name was Nehushta daughter of Elnathan; she was from Jerusalem.
it leads to
- 2 Chronicles 36:9
Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months and ten days. And he did evil in the sight of the LORD.
- Jeremiah 24:1
After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, as well as the officials of Judah and the craftsmen and metalsmiths from Jerusalem, and had brought them to…
- Jeremiah 22:28
Is this man Coniah a despised and shattered pot, a jar that no one wants? Why are he and his descendants hurled out and cast into a land they do not know?
- 2 Chronicles 36:9
Through
2 Kings 24:6And Jehoiakim rested with his fathers, and his son Jehoiachin reigned in his place.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 22:18–19
Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah: “They will not mourn for him: ‘Alas, my brother! Alas, my sister!’ They will not mourn for him: ‘Alas,…
- Jeremiah 36:30
Therefore this is what the LORD says about Jehoiakim king of Judah: He will have no one to sit on David’s throne, and his body will be thrown out and exposed to heat by…
- Jeremiah 22:18–19
Through
Jeremiah 22:24“As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “even if you, Coniah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, were a signet ring on My right hand, I would pull you off.
it leads to
- Song of Solomon 8:6
Set me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as unrelenting as Sheol. Its sparks are fiery flames, the fiercest…
- Song of Solomon 8:6
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament.