Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 2:34
Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. And Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name [was] Jarha.
1Ch 2:34
Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters.
Compensations
Men should always put down after a statement of their deficiencies a statement of their possessions; thus: had no money, but heal mental power; had no external fame, but had great home repute; had no genius, but had great common sense; had no high connections of a social kind, but enjoyed easy access to heaven in prayer; had no earthly property, but was rich in ideas and impulses; was not at the head of a great circle of admirers, but was truly respected and trusted wherever known; had no health, but had great cheerfulness. Thus we must keep the two sides, so to say, parallel; if we have not one thing we have another. (J. Parker, D. D.)
The compensations of life
The disproportion in mans inheritances is far less than we are prone to think. If one hand of the Universal Giver be closed, the other is expanded; no one is left without his need of compensation; only in our weakness and unthankfulness we look more at the darker side of our lot, and at what appears to us the brighter side of our neighbours. Epictetus explains the mystery in part: It is not fortune that is blind, but ourselves. Whatever be our lot, if man will but just concede that that must be best for him which the Best of Beings has ordained, life thenceforward has a solace which no fortune can wrest away. (Leo H. Grindon.)
Fuente: Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell
Verse 34. Whose name was Jarha.] “And he gave him his liberty, and gave him Sheshan his daughter to wife.” – T.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Sheshan had no sons, to wit, living when he died, his son Ahlai, 1Ch 2:31, dying before him; unless Ahlai was the name of a daughter.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
34. Sheshan had no sons, butdaughterseither he had no sons alive at his death, or hisfamily consisted wholly of daughters, of whom Ahlai (1Ch2:31) was one, she being specially mentioned on account of thedomestic relations about to be noted.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters,…. And but one of that sort, whose name was Ahlai, 1Ch 2:31 the plural being put here for the singular; or, if that is the name of a son, as some think, he died in his father’s lifetime, and left no issue; so that there only remained daughters, and it seems but one by the next verse:
and Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha; one born in his house, and brought up by him, and a proselyte, such an one as Eliezer in Abraham’s family.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(34) Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters.Comp. 1Ch. 2:31 above, And the children of Sheshan; Ahlai. Those who insist upon a literal understanding of these lists reconcile the two statements by making Ahlai a daughter; others suppose that the chronicler has preserved for us in the present section fragments of at least two independent accounts.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
“Handfuls of Purpose,”
For All Gleaners
“Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters.” 1Ch 2:34 .
Everything therefore would depend upon Sheshan’s point of view as to the estimate he placed upon his social position. If he fixed his attention upon the fact that he had no sons, he might be depressed, he might wonder as to the future, he might be perplexed as to the continuance of his memorial and his name in the tribe to which he belonged. On the other hand, if he were a man of more cheerful and grateful disposition, he would proceed not to the lamentation of his deficiencies, but to the recognition of his blessings: he would magnify the excellence of his daughters, he would dwell with thankful delight upon their meekness, modesty, gentleness, helpfulness, domesticity. The principle is larger than the local instance. Men should always put down after a statement of their deficiencies a statement of their possessions; thus: had no money, but had mental power; had no external fame, but had great home repute; had no genius, but had great common-sense; had no high connections of a social kind, but enjoyed easy access to heaven in prayer; had no earthly property, but was rich in ideas and impulses: was not at the head of a great circle of admirers, but was truly respected and trusted wherever known; had no health, but had great cheerfulness; thus we must keep the two sides, so to say, parallel; if we have not one thing, we have another; if we have not feet, we have wings; if we have not wings, we have feet; if we cannot run quickly, we can think rapidly; in a moment our thoughts can be at the ends of the earth, the eagle can outfly us in space, or the lion outrun us, but in mind we are round the earth before they have begun their motion. Men will act constitutionally in this whole matter. Some men have a great gift for seeing shadows and outlines of foes and beginnings of oppositions; some men bankrupt themselves every month in the year, and live a life of inward toil and anxiety: others are perhaps too hopeful, allowing their imagination and their ambition to make fools of them under some circumstances. On all these matters we must think seriously, and pray humbly for divine direction.
Fuente: The People’s Bible by Joseph Parker
no sons: Num 27:3, Num 27:4, Num 27:8
but daughters: Num 36:2, Num 36:10, Num 36:11
Jarha: i.e. increasing moon, [Strong’s H3398], 1Ch 2:35
Reciprocal: 1Ch 2:31 – the children of Sheshan
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
1Ch 2:34. But daughters We read of no more than one daughter that he had: but the writer speaks in the plural number, as before, 1Ch 2:31. An Egyptian, whose name was Jarha To whom, as being a proselyte to the Jewish religion, and a faithful servant, his master Sheshan first gave his freedom, and then his daughter in marriage.