1 Chronicles 12

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Four - All David’s children by her, as the text positively affirms: and therefore Solomon is called her, only son, Proverbs 4:3, because she loved him as if he had been so. Ammiel - Called also Eliam, 2 Samuel 11:3.

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Eliphelet - And he had two other sons called by the same names, ver.8, probably they were by different wives: and probably they were then distinguished by some additional clause or title, which is here omitted, because the two first were dead before the two second were born, and therefore the names of the deceased were given to these to preserve their memory.

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Nine - There are but seven mentioned, 2 Samuel 5:14. Two of them are omitted there, because they died very early, and here we have all the sons of David, which clause is not added 2 Samuel 5:13 - 16.

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Shallum - Which most conceive to be the same who is called Jehoahaz, 2 Kings 23:30.

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Zedekiak - This was another Zedekiah. How seldom has a crown gone in a direct line, from father to son, as it did here, for seventeen generations! This was the recompense of David’s piety. About the captivity the lineal descent was interrupted, and the crown went from a nephew to an uncle, a presage of the glory’s departing from that house.

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Assir - Or, of Jechoniah the captive, which is added to shew that he begat his son when he was captive in Babylon.

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Pedaiah - The sentence seems to be short and imperfect, as is frequent in the Hebrew language, and something is here understood, as, the sons also of Salathiel were Malchiram and Pedaiah, &c. as they gather from hence that the same Zerubbabel is called the son of Pedaiah, ver.19, and the son (that is, the grandson) of Salathiel, Matthew 1:12.

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Their sister - Sister to the two last named sons of Zerubbabel, namely, by both parents; and therefore named before the other five, ver.20, who were her brethren by the father, but not by the mother.

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Shechaniah - All these both parents and their sons blended together, are mentioned as the sons of Hananiah, and branches of the royal stock.

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Six - Including the father. But the Hebrew word, Shisha, which is rendered six, may be the proper name of one of the sons of Shemaiah.

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The sons - The posterity: for only Pharez was his immediate son. But they are all mentioned here only to shew Shobal’s descent from Judah.

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Honourably - For courage, and for fervent piety. She records this, that it might be a memorandum to herself, to be thankful to God as long as she lived, for bringing her through that sorrow: and a memorandum to him, that she bore him into a vale of tears, in which he might expect few days and full of trouble. And the sorrow in his name might serve to put a seriousness upon his spirit.

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Called - When he was undertaking some great and dangerous service. Enlarge - Drive out these Canaanites, whom thou hast commanded us to root out. Grieve - That it may not oppress and overcome me: more is understood than is expressed. He useth this expression in allusion to his name, which signifies grief. And God granted, &c. - Prospered him remarkably in his undertakings, in his studies, in his worldly business, and in his conflicts with the Canaanites.

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Rechab - From these are sprung the present inhabitants of Rechab, a town not elsewhere mentioned.

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Father - Of the inhabitants of the valley.