¹⁷And the sons of Jeconiah, the captive[¹]; Shealtiel his son, ¹⁸and Malchiram, and Pedaiah, and Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah.
[¹] Or, Assir.
17. the sons of Jeconiah] That Jeconiah had sons is not at variance with Jeremiah’s denunciation of him (Jeremiah xxii. 30). That passage gives the answer to Jeconiah’s expectation of a speedy return to his kingdom (Jeremiah xxii. verse 27); Jeremiah says that neither he nor any of his seed shall recover the lost throne: “Reckon him childless, for no son of his shall succeed him on his throne.”
the captive] Hebrew assir, which the Revised Version margin (= Authorized Version), following the ancient Versions, has wrongly taken to be a proper name. The Revised Version margin is here only a survival of Authorized Version. The rendering of the text (the captive) no doubt expresses the real judgment of the Revisers.
Shealtiel] the Greek form Salathiel (Authorized Version) occurs in Luke iii. 27 (Authorized Version).
¹⁹And the sons of Pedaiah; Zerubbabel, and Shimei: and the sons[¹] of Zerubbabel;
[¹] Hebrew son.
19. the sons of Zerubbabel] so the LXX. The Hebrew has son, as Revised Version margin.
19b–24.
The Davidic Line from Zerubbabel.
The text of these verses is very uncertain. In verse 20 the names of five sons are given, but their father’s name (perhaps Meshullam) is wanting. In verses 21, 22 the LXX. differs from the Hebrew in such a way as to affect the number of steps in the genealogy; the Hebrew seems to reckon but one generation between Hananiah and Shemaiah, the LXX. on the contrary reckons six; the result on the whole genealogy being that the LXX. counts eleven generations after Zerubbabel as against six in the Hebrew In verse 22 again the sons of Shemaiah are reckoned to be six, but only five names are given in both Hebrew and LXX. For the bearing of these verses upon the date of Chronicles, see the Introduction [§ 3].