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Keil & Delitzsch on 1 Chronicles 3:1
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C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch · 19th-century historical commentary
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The sons and descendants of David. - After the enumeration of the chief families of the two sons of Hezron, Caleb and Jerahmeel, in 1 Chron 2:18-55, the genealogy of Ram the second son of Hezron, which in Ch1 2:10-17 was only traced down to Jesse, the father of the royal race of David, is in 1 Chron 3 again taken up and further followed out. In Ch1 3:1-9 all the sons of David are enumerated; in Ch1 3:10-16, the line of kings of the house of David from Solomon to Jeconiah and Zedekiah; in Ch1 3:17-21, the descendants of Jeconiah to the grandsons of Zerubbabel; and finally, in Ch1 3:22-24, other descendants of Shechaniah to the fourth generation. Ch1 3:1-4 The sons of David: (a) Those born in Hebron; (b) those born in Jerusalem. - Ch1 3:1-4. The six sons born in Hebron are enumerated also in Sa2 3:2-5, with mention of their mother as here: but there the second is called כּלאב; here, on the contrary, דּניּאל, - a difference which cannot well have arisen through an error of a copyist, but is probably to be explained on the supposition that this son had two different names. In reference to the others, see on 2 Sam 3. The sing. לו נולד אשׁר after a preceding plural subject is to be explained as in Ch1 2:9. שׁני, without the article, for משׁנהוּ, Sa2 3:3, or המּשׁנה, Ch1 5:12, is surprising, as all the other numbers have the article; but the enumeration, the first-born, a second, the third, etc., may be justified without any alteration of the text being necessary. But the difference between our text and that of 2 Sam. in regard to the second son, shows that the chronicler did not take the register from 2 Sam 3. The preposition ל before אבשׁלום seems to have come into the text only through a mistake occasioned by the preceding לאביגיל, for no reason is apparent for any strong emphasis which might be implied in the ל being placed on the name of Absalom. The addition of אשׁתּו to עגלה ( Ch1 3:3) seems introduced only to conclude the enumeration in a fitting way, as the descent of Eglah had not been communicated; just as, for a similar reason, the additional clause "the wife of David" is inserted in Sa2 3:5, without Eglah being thereby distinguished above the other wives as the most honoured. The concluding formula, "six were born to him in Hebron" ( Ch1 3:4), is followed by a notice of how long David reigned in Hebron and in Jerusalem (cf. Sa2 2:11 and Sa2 5:5), which is intended to form a fitting transition to the following list of the sons who were born to him in Jerusalem. Ch1 3:5-9 In Jerusalem thirteen other sons were born to him, of whom four were the children of Bathsheba. The thirteen names are again enumerated in the history of David, in Ch1 14:7-11, which in the parallel passage, Sa2 5:14-16, only eleven are mentioned, the two last being omitted (see on the passage). Some of the names are somewhat differently given in these passages, owing the differences of pronunciation and form: שׁמעה is in both places שׁמוּע; אלישׁמע, between Ibhar and Eliphalet, is in 1 Chron 14 more correctly written אלישׁוּע. Elishama is clearly a transcriber's error, occasioned by one of the following sons bearing this name. אליפלט, shortened in Ch1 14:6 into אלפּלט, and נוגה, are wanting in Sa2 5:15, probably because they died early. אלידע, Ch1 3:8, Sa2 5:16, appears in Ch1 14:7 as בּעלידע; the mother also of the four first named, בּתשׁוּע, the daughter of Ammiel, is elsewhere always בּת־שׁבע, e.g., Sa2 11:3, and Kg1 1:11, Kg1 1:15, etc.; and her father, Eli…
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