1 Chronicles 3:15 (BSB)
The sons of Josiah: Johanan was the firstborn, Jehoiakim the second, Zedekiah the third, and Shallum the fourth.
From 1 Chronicles 3. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on 1 Chronicles 3:15
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on 1 Chronicles 3:10-24: David having nineteen sons, we may suppose them to have raised many noble families in Israel whom we never hear of in the history. But the scripture gives us an account only of the descendants of Solomon here, and of Nathan, Lu. 3. The rest had the honour to be the sons of David; but these only had the honour to be related to the Messiah.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on 1 Chronicles 3:15: And the sons of Jehoiakim; Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son. This is not the Zedekiah mentioned in the preceding verse; for he was not the son but the uncle of Jeconiah, unless he should be called his son because he succeeded him in the kingdom; but he seems to be another of that name, nowhere else mentioned, and not the son of Jeconiah in...
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on 1 Chronicles 3:15: Zedekiah--called the son of Josiah (compare Jer 1:3; Jer 37:1), but in Ch2 36:19 he is described as the brother of Jehoiachin, who was the son of Jehoiakim, and consequently the grandson of Josiah. Words expressive of affinity or relationship are used with great latitude in the Hebrew. Shallum--No king of this name is mentioned in the history of Josiah's sons (2Ki. 14:1-29; 2Ki.
- Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on 1 Chronicles 3:15: And the sons of Josiah [were], the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum. (e) So called because he was preferred for the royal dignity before his brother Jehoiakim who was the elder.