Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 3:22
And the sons of Shechaniah; Shemaiah: and the sons of Shemaiah; Hattush, and Igeal, and Bariah, and Neariah, and Shaphat, six.
Six – There are only five names in the Hebrew text. The Syriac anti Arabic versions supply Azariah between Neariah and Shaphat.
The question of the proper arrangement of the genealogy of the descendants of Zerubbabel 1Ch 3:19-24 is important in its bearing on the interesting point of the time at which the canon of the Old Testament was closed. Assuming the average of a generation to be 20 years in the East, the genealogy of the present chapter, drawn out according to the Hebrew text, does not descend below about 410 B.C., and thus falls within the probable lifetime of Nehemiah.
If, further, we regard it as most probable that Ezra died before 431 B.C., and that this passage in question was not wholly written by him, this does not disprove the theory (see the introduction to Chronicles), that Ezra was the author of Chronicles. Deuteronomy is by Moses, though the last chapter cannot be from his hand. The dukes of Edom might he an insertion into the text of Genesis Gen 36:40-43 without the authorship of the remainder of the work being affected by it. So here; Nehemiah, or Malachi, may have carried on the descent of the sons of David as far as it had reached in their time, adding to the account given by Ezra one, or at the most two verses.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 22. The sons of Shemaiah – six.] FIVE only are found in the text, and the versions give us no assistance; neither do the MSS. correct the place. If the father be not here included with his sons, some name must be lost out of the text.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
To wit, including the father. But the Hebrew word shisha, which is rendered six, may be the proper name of one of the sons of Shemaiah, who may be so called, because he was the sixth son.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
[See comments on 1Ch 3:19].
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(22) The sons of Shechaniah; Shemaiah.See Note on 1Ch. 1:41.
Hattush.Probably the Hattush of the sons of David, of the sons of Shechaniah, mentioned by Ezra as one of those who went up with him from Babylon in the second return, 457 B.C. (Ezr. 8:2-3). If we have rightly understood 1Ch. 3:21, Hattush is of the fourth generation after Zerubbabel (Hananiah, Shechaniah, Shemaiah, Hattush), and so might well have been a youthful companion of Ezra.
Six.As the text gives only five names, one must have been omitted by an oversight.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
1Ch 3:22. Six Five. Houbigant. See Calmet.
REFLECTIONS.For seventeen descents, the crown of Judah went from father to son in a direct line. Just before the captivity, the lineal descent was interrupted. Jeconiah, Assir the captive, 1Ch 5:17. (not a descendant of his, but Jeconiah himself), though he was written childless respecting the succession to the throne, yet seems to have had several children in Babylon, 1Ch 3:17-18. Zerubbabel, here said to be the son of Pedaiah, is elsewhere called the son of Salathiel: either his grandson, if Pedaiah was Salathiel’s son, or if his brother, as it seems more probable, Pedaiah, as next of kin, might, on his dying childless, marry his widow, and raise up seed to his brother, which seems the best solution of the difficulty. There is an observable difference between the descendants of Zerubbabel here, and in St. Matthew, which may be accounted for by the same person frequently having more names than one.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
1Ch 3:22 And the sons of Shechaniah; Shemaiah: and the sons of Shemaiah; Hattush, and Igeal, and Bariah, and Neariah, and Shaphat, six.
Ver. 22. Neariah, and Shaphat, six, ] sc., Reckoned together with their father Shemalah.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
six. Hebrew. Shishshah, which may be a proper name and not the numeral.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Hattush: Ezr 8:2
six: Five only are enumerated in the text, which Houbigant would substitute as the true reading; but probably the father is reckoned with his sons.
Reciprocal: 1Ch 5:12 – Jaanai
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
3:22 And the sons of Shechaniah; Shemaiah: and the sons of Shemaiah; Hattush, and Igeal, and Bariah, and Neariah, and Shaphat, {g} six.
(g) So that Shemaiah was Shechaniah’s natural son, and the other five his nephews and in all there were six.