1 Chronicles 3:18
in 1 Chronicles 3Shealtiel his son, Malchiram, Pedaiah, Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
and Malchiram, and Pedaiah, and Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah.
KJV
Malchiram also, and Pedaiah, and Shenazar, Jecamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah.
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 3
Commentary
6 notes on this verseMalchiram also,.... That is, was a son of Jeconiah as well as Salathiel, and so the rest that follow: and Pedaiah, and Shenazar, Jecamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah; Kimchi says these were the sons of Salathiel; but I rather think they were the sons of Jeconiah, and brethren of Salathiel, because of what follows.
This site's exposition
the sons of Jeconiah
on 1 Chronicles 3:17-19
Assir in verse 17 is read by several commentators not as a fourth son but as Jeconiah's own title, the prisoner, marking that Salathiel was born to a king already captive in Babylon, the same captivity Matthew 1:12 has in view when it names Salathiel as Jeconiah's son. Jeremiah had written this king childless as to the throne, and the family line in these verses answers that word without reversing it, continuing without a king of its own returning to sit on it. Verse 19 makes Zerubbabel the son of Pedaiah rather than of Salathiel as the New Testament names him, a difference the commentators resolve as an heir standing in a dead kinsman's place rather than a contradiction of the record.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
Pedaiah - The sentence seems to be short and imperfect, as is frequent in the Hebrew language, and something is here understood, as, the sons also of Salathiel were Malchiram and Pedaiah, &c. as they gather from hence that the same Zerubbabel is called the son of Pedaiah, ver. 19, and the son (that is, the grandson) of Salathiel, Matt. i, 12.
The last person named in this chapter is Anani, of whom bishop Patrick says that the Targum adds these words, He is the king Messiah, who is to be revealed, and some of the Jewish writers give this reason, because it is said ( Dan. vii.
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The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Malchiram also--As far as Jeconiah, everything is plain; but there is reason to suspect that the text in the subsequent verses has been dislocated and disarranged. The object of the sacred historian is to trace the royal line through Zerubbabel; yet, according to the present reading, the genealogical stem cannot be drawn from Jeconiah downwards.
Malchiram also - Calmet supposes we should read here, And the sons of Salathiel were Malchiram and Pedaiah, etc.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּמַלְכִּירָ֥ם | umalkiram | and Malkiram | H4443 → | |
| וּפְדָיָ֖ה | ufedayah | and Pedaiah | H6305 → | 8 times |
| וְשֶׁנְאַצַּ֑ר | veshenatzar | and Shenazzar | H8137 → | |
| יְקַמְיָ֥ה | yekamyah | Jekamiah | H3359 → | 3 times |
| הוֹשָׁמָ֖ע | hoshama' | Hoshama | H1953 → | |
| וּנְדַבְיָֽה׃ | unedavyah | and Nedabiah | H5072 → |
וּמַלְכִּירָ֥םand Malkiram
umalkiramH4443 →
וּפְדָיָ֖הand Pedaiah
ufedayahH6305 →8 times
וְשֶׁנְאַצַּ֑רand Shenazzar
veshenatzarH8137 →
יְקַמְיָ֥הJekamiah
yekamyahH3359 →3 times
הוֹשָׁמָ֖עHoshama
hoshama'H1953 →
וּנְדַבְיָֽה׃and Nedabiah
unedavyahH5072 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
About 1 Chronicles
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; 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); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.