1 Chronicles 3:17

The Royal Line After the Exile

17 The descendants of Jehoiachin the captive: Shealtiel his son,

1 Chronicles 3:17 in Other Translations

17 And the sons of Jeconiah; Assir, Salathiel his son,

17 and the sons of Jeconiah, the captive: Shealtiel his son,

17 The sons of Jehoiachin, who was taken prisoner by the Babylonians, were Shealtiel,

17 The sons of Jeconiah born while he was captive in Babylon: Shealtiel,

17 The sons of Jeconiah the captive: his sons Shealtiel,

1 Chronicles 3:17 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 3:17

And the sons of Jeconiah
For though he was pronounced childless, ( Jeremiah 22:30 ) , that respects not his having no children in any sense, but none to succeed him in the kingdom:

Assir;
which signifies bound, or a prisoner, because, as Kimchi thinks, he was born in a prison, his father then being a captive in Babylon; but rather it refers to Jeconiah himself, and is an appellation of him, and to be rendered,

the sons of Jeconiah the captive:
which agrees best with the Hebrew accents:

Salathiel his son;
the same that is called Shealtiel, ( Haggai 1:1 ) who was both the proper son of Jeconiah, and who succeeded him, as some think, in the honour and dignity the king of Babylon raised him to.

1 Chronicles 3:17 In-Context

15 The sons of Josiah: Johanan the firstborn, Jehoiakim the second son, Zedekiah the third, Shallum the fourth.

16 The successors of Jehoiakim: Jehoiachin his son, and Zedekiah.

17 The descendants of Jehoiachin the captive: Shealtiel his son,

18 Malkiram, Pedaiah, Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama and Nedabiah.

19 The sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel and Shimei. The sons of Zerubbabel: Meshullam and Hananiah. Shelomith was their sister.

Cross References

• 1. Ezra 3:2