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1 Chronicles 3 Bible study: Son after son
1 Chronicles 3 doesn't stop at the captive king. After "Jeconiah, the captive" (3:17) it keeps naming David's line, through Zerubbabel (3:19) to the sons of Elioenai (3:24). Matthew's list of Jesus' ancestors names Jechoniah, Shealtiel and Zerubbabel too (Matthew 1:12), and runs on from "Zerubbabel became the father of Abiud" (Matthew 1:13) to Jesus (Matthew 1:16).
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“The sons of Jeconiah, the captive: Shealtiel his son,”
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“1 Chronicles 3:5 names Nathan and Solomon as sons of the same mother.”
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What's really going on
Born in Hebron, born in Jerusalem
The chapter opens, "Now these were the sons of David, who were born to him in Hebron" (3:1), and names six, each with his mother: Amnon, Daniel, Absalom, Adonijah, Shephatiah and Ithream (3:1-3). Then it gives David's years: "six were born to him in Hebron; and he reigned there seven years and six months. He reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem" (3:4). 2 Samuel gives the same Hebron years: "In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months" (2 Samuel 5:5). The sons born in Jerusalem follow: "Shimea, Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon, four, by Bathshua the daughter of Ammiel" (3:5), and nine more, to "Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine" (3:8). The list closes, "All these were the sons of David, in addition to the sons of the concubines; and Tamar was their sister" (3:9). The concubines' sons aren't named, and Tamar is the only sister the list names.
Where it leads to Jesus
Zerubbabel, in Jesus' line
1 Chronicles 3:19leads toMatthew 1:13
After "The sons of Jeconiah, the captive: Shealtiel his son" (3:17), the chapter names "The sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel and Shimei" (3:19). Matthew's genealogy of Jesus runs through the same names: "After the exile to Babylon, Jechoniah became the father of Shealtiel. Shealtiel became the father of Zerubbabel" (Matthew 1:12). Then "Zerubbabel became the father of Abiud" (Matthew 1:13), and the line runs on to "Jesus, who is called Christ" (Matthew 1:16). The two lists differ, and neither explains it: here Zerubbabel is a son of Pedaiah (3:18-19), in Matthew of Shealtiel; and Abiud isn't named anywhere in 3:19-24. Matthew doesn't quote 1 Chronicles.
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- Son after son
- The line doesn't stop at the captive
- Beside Matthew's list
- Names that come back
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- 11 more Hebrew words
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The Hebrew word behind it
בֵּןbensay BEIN
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "son". Strong's: "a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense". From Solomon on, the chapter is built on it: "Solomon’s son was Rehoboam, Abijah his son, Asa his son" (3:10). The WEB's chapter says his son 17 times, from 3:10 to 3:17, and each time it is one Hebrew word, beno, "his son". It runs from Solomon to "Josiah his son" (3:14); then the chapter lists brothers, "The sons of Josiah" (3:15), and goes on through Jehoiakim and Jeconiah (3:16-17).
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1 Chronicles 3 Bible study questions
- 1Kings tells these men's stories, good and bad; this chapter keeps only their names, "his son" after "his son" (3:10-14). What do you most want to hand on to the people who come after you?
- 2David's line ran through "Jeconiah, the captive" (3:17) and kept going (3:17-24). When have you seen God keep something going through a time that looked like the end?
- 3This chapter and other books give some names differently (3:1, 3:5, 3:19), and the Bible leaves them side by side without explaining. How do you handle it when Scripture leaves a question open?
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