and Malchiram, and Pedaiah, and Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah.
The text here is dislocated and scrambled; we cannot trace the royal line through Zerubbabel as the historian plainly intends unless we rearrange these verses. The genealogical stem breaks if we follow the present reading, so the names must be reordered to restore the proper descent from Jeconiah through Salathiel to Zerubbabel and his sons.
AI summary
The crown passed in direct line from father to son for seventeen descents, a rare thing, and the fruit of David's piety. But when the succession grew tangled near the captivity, brother to brother and nephew to uncle, the glory of that house began to eclipse, and the descendants after the return were mostly obscure names. Only Zerubbabel shone among them.
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Commenting on 1 Chronicles 3:10-24
Whether Assir is a son's name or an appellative meaning 'prisoner' turns on grammar: the lack of the article decides it. If apposition to Jeconiah, it must have the article; it does not. Shealtiel stands as a proper name in the line, confirmed by his place in the genealogies of Jesus and Zerubbabel across Matthew, Luke, Haggai, and Ezra.
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Commenting on 1 Chronicles 3:17-24