Study
4 - The Book of 1 Chronicles
The
Genealogy points them to the promised Messiah (1 Chronicles 3)
The
previous chapter traced the genealogy of the “godly line” up to David, one of
the eight sons of Jesse. This chapter continues the line from David all the way
to the Son of David, the promised Messiah.
Mat
1:1 ¶ The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of
Abraham.
Mat
21:9 And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying,
Hosanna to the Son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord;
Hosanna in the highest.”
Matthew
22
41 ¶
While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them,
42
Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The Son of
David.
43 ¶
He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying,
44
The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies
thy footstool?
45 If
David then call him Lord, how is he his son?
46
And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day
forth ask him any more questions.
1.
Outline of Chapter 3
a.
This chapter gives an account of the sons of David:
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3:1-9: those born to him both in Hebron and in Jerusalem,
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3:10-16: his successors in the kingdom, to the Babylonian captivity: David > Solomon > Rehoboam > Abia > Asa > Jehoshaphat > Joram
> (Ahaziah > Joash > Amaziah) > Azariah > Jotham > Hezekiah
> Manasseh > Amon > Josiah > Jeconiah exiled to Babylon
- 3:17-24 of his family, to the coming of the Messiah: Jeconiah > Salathiel > Zerubabel > Abuid > Eliakim > Azor > Zadok > Achim > Eliud > Eleazer > Matthan > Jacob > Joseph > Jesus the Christ.
b.
Mat 1:17¶ So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen
generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen
generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen
generations.
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Abraham to David: 14 generations
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Solomon to Jeconiah (carried to Babylon): 14 generations
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Salathiel to Christ : 14 generations
2.
The Sons of David (v1-9)
a. Six
were born to him in Hebron, who are reckoned in the same order as in 2 Sam
3:2.
- But
here the second son is called Daniel; in 2 Sam goes by the name of Chileab. The
reason is he had two names, see here 1 Sam 25:39.
- v4b
gives an account of his reign both in Hebron and Jerusalem, in harmony with 2
Sam 5:5.
c.
And these were born unto him in Jerusalem; four and nine – thirteen in
all.
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Bathshua is the same as Bethsheba.
d.
v9: these were all the sons of David by his wives
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besides the sons of the concubines, who are not reckoned, and how many they
were is not known; he had ten concubines at least, 2 Sam 15:16 and 2 Sam 20:3.
e. And Tamar, their sister, of his son Absalom by the mother's side, of whom see 2 Sam 13:1.
3.
The sons of Solomon (v10-16)
a.
From Solomon to Josiah: from here to the end of the fourteenth verse, David's
successors are named, according to the order of their reign, unto Josiah and
his sons.
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Solomon, Rehoboam, Abia, Asa, Jehoshaphat, Joram, Ahaziah, Joash, Amaziah,
Azariah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, Manasseh, Amon, Josiah, in all sixteen.
b.
From Josiah to Jeconiah (exiled to Babylon):
- And
the sons of Josiah were, the firstborn Johanan; we don’t read of this son
anywhere else; he probably died before his father Josiah. The other three were
Jehoiakim, Zedekiah, and Shallum.
- And
the sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah, his son, Zedekiah, his son.
c.
And the sons of Jeconiah: For though he was pronounced childless, Jeremiah
22:30, not because he had no children, but none to succeed him in the kingdom.
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Assir, which signifies bound, or a prisoner, because his father then was a
captive in Babylon.
4.
The sons of Jeconiah in Babylon to the promised Messiah (v17-24)
a.
“The sons of Jeconiah the captive:
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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.
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Malchiram also, and so the rest that follows:
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Pedaiah, and Shenazar, Jecamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah.
b.
And the sons of Pedaiah were Zerubbabel and Shimei.
- And
the sons of Zerubbabel; Meshullam and Hananiah, their sister Shelomith; and
five sons, possibly by another wife - Hashubah, Ohel, Berechiah, Hasadiah, and
Jushabhesed.
- And
the sons of Hananiah: Peletiah and Jesaiah > Rephaiah, Arnan, Obadiah,
Shecaniah; six in all.
- And
the sons of Shecaniah: Shemaiah, and grandsons, Hattush, Igeal, Bariah,
Neariah, and Shaphat
- And
the sons of Neariah: Elioenai, Hezekiah, Azrikam, three.
- And
the sons of Elioenai: Hodaiah, Eliashib, Pelaiah, Akkub, Johanan, Dalaiah, and
Anani, seven in all.
c. In
Matthew, thus, "Zerubbabel, Abiud, Eliakim, Azor, Sadoc, Achim, Eliud,
Eleazar, Matthan, Jacob, Joseph, Jesus."
- The difference in names may be accounted for by their having two names.
- It
is remarkable that the Targum makes Anani the King Messiah, who was to be
revealed. This 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.
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Anani is reckoned by other Jews a name of the Messiah, who is said to come in
the clouds of heaven, which Anani signifies. Dan 7:13.
