Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 3:19
And the sons of Pedaiah [were], Zerubbabel, and Shimei: and the sons of Zerubbabel; Meshullam, and Hananiah, and Shelomith their sister:
19. the sons of Zerubbabel ] R.V. = LXX.; A.V. = Heb.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
19. their sister ] R.V. was their sister.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
19b 24. The Davidic Line from Zerubbabel
The text of these verses is very uncertain. In 1Ch 3:20 the names of five sons are given, but their father’s name (perhaps Meshullam) is wanting. In 1Ch 3:21-22 the LXX. differs from the Heb. in such a way as to affect the number of steps in the genealogy; the Heb. 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 Heb. In 1Ch 3:22 again the sons of Shemaiah are reckoned to be six, but only five names are given both in Heb. and LXX.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Zerubbabel, elsewhere always called the son of Salathiel, was only Salathiels heir and legal son, being naturally his nephew, the son of his brother, Pedaiah.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 19. The sons of Pedaiah] Houbigant thinks these words should be omitted. Pedaiah is wanting in the Arabic and Syriac. If this be omitted, Zerubbabel will appear to be the son of Salathiel, according to Mt 1:12, and not the son of Pedaiah, as here stated.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
i.e. Sister to the two last named sons of Zerubbabel, to wit, by both parents; and therefore named before the other five, 1Ch 3:20, who were her brethren by the father, but not by the mother.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
Ver. 19-24. And the sons of Pedaiah were, Zerubbabel and Shimei,…. Here arises a difficulty, since elsewhere Zerubbabel is said to be the son of Shealtiel, Hag 1:1 some think this is not the same Zerubbabel here as there; so Grotius u; but I see no reason for that; but this difficulty may be removed by observing, that if Pedaiah was a son of Salathiel, as Kimchi thinks, then Zerubbabel, being his grandson, may be called his son, as grandsons are sometimes called sons in Scripture; or rather, Salathiel, having no children, adopted Zerubbabel, his brother’s son, and made him successor in the government; so that he was the son of Pedaiah by birth, and of Salathiel by adoption; or else Salathiel dying without children, his brother Pedaiah, according to the law, married his widow, and by her had Zerubbabel, who was the proper son of Pedaiah, and the legal son of Salathiel:
and the sons of Zerubbabel; Meshullam: who is called Abiud, Mt 1:13 another son of his, with their father, is mentioned in this verse, and five more in the next. From hence to the end of the chapter, the genealogy is carried on from the captivity of Babylon, out of which Zerubbabel came, to the coming of Christ; and if Ezra was the writer of this book, as is generally thought, who was contemporary with Zerubbabel, this account must be written by another hand: and it may be observed, that it is carried on in the same number of generations as in Matthew; and here it stands thus:
Zerubbabel, Hananiah, Jesaiah, Rephaiah, Arnan, Obadiah, Shecaniah, Shemaiah, Neariah, Elioenai, Anani; in Matthew thus, “Zerubbabel, Abiud, Eliakim, Azor, Sadoc, Achim, Eliud, Eleazar, Matthan, Jacob, Joseph”; the difference in names may be accounted for by their having two names; and it is remarkable that the Targum makes Anani to be the King Messiah, who was to be revealed; which, though it makes one generation less to his time, yet plainly shows that the Jews expected the Messiah to come at the end of this genealogy, and about the time Jesus the true Messiah did. Anani is reckoned by other Jews a name of the Messiah, who is said to come in the clouds of heaven, which “Anani” signifies, [See comments on Da 7:13].
u In Luc. 3.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(19) And the sons of Pedaiah were, Zerubbabel, and Shimei.Zerubbabel, the famous prince who, with Joshua the high priest, led the first colony of restored exiles from Babylon to Canaan, under the edict of Cyrus (B.C. cir. 536). Zerubbabel (LXX., ), means born at Babel. His father is appropriately named Pedaiah (Iah hath redeemed). Zerubbabel is called son of Shealtiel (Hag. 1:1, &c.; Ezr. 3:2; Ezr. 5:2part of the chronicle it should be remembered; Mat. 1:12). Hence some expositors, ancient and modern, have assumed that the six persons named in 1Ch. 3:18, including Pedaiah, the father of Zerubbabel, were sons, not brothers of Salathiel (Shealtiel). In this way they bring Zerubbabel into the direct line of descent from Shealtiel. But our Hebrew text, though peculiar, can hardly mean this. It makes Zerubbabel the son of Pedaiah, and nephew of Shealtiel. If Zerubbabel, for reasons unknown, became adopted son and heir of Shealtiel, his uncle, the seemingly discordant statements of the different passages before us are all reconciled; while that of our text is the more exact.
And the sons of Zerubbabel.The Hebrew received text has and the son. This is not to be altered, although some MSS. have the plural. (Comp. 1Ch. 3:21; 1Ch. 3:23.) This use of the singular is characteristic of the present genealogical fragment (see 1Ch. 3:17-18), And the sons of Jeconiah captiveSalathiel his son, and Malchiram, &c.
Meshullam, and Hananiah, and Shelomith their sister.This seems to mean that the three were the offspring of one wife.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Zerubbabel According to Mat 1:12 and Ezr 3:2; Ezr 5:2, the son of Shealtiel.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
the sons of Pedaiah: As St. Matthew states that Zerubbabel was the son of Salathiel, Houbigant thinks these words should be omitted; and Pedaiah is wanting in the Arabic and Syriac.
Zerubbabel: Ezr 2:2, Ezr 3:2, Hag 1:12-14, Hag 2:2, Hag 2:4, Zec 4:6-9, Mat 1:12, Zorobabel
Reciprocal: Hag 2:21 – Zerubbabel Zec 12:13 – Shimei
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
3:19 And the sons of Pedaiah [were], {f} Zerubbabel, and Shimei: and the sons of Zerubbabel; Meshullam, and Hananiah, and Shelomith their sister:
(f) Matthew says that Zerubbabel was the son of Shealtiel, meaning that he was his nephew according to the Hebrew speech: for he was Pedaiah’s son.