The Pulpit Commentary — 1 Chronicles — Section 44

of Davicl'e reign at Hebron six sons belong, Numb. xiii. 12; 2 Sam. ix. 4, 5; xvi i. 27; each of a different mother. To the thirty eh. xxvi. 5. The component parts of both uml three years (2 Se.m. v. 5; 1 Kings ii. words are the same, but their order is differ- 11) of his reign a~ Jeruso.lem belong other ent-the meaning of the one perhaps " the thirteen sons, viz. four of one mother, people of God; " of the other, " the Goel of Bethehua, e.nd nine of other mothers, whose the people.'' no.mes e.re not given. The list of the six \'er. 9.-This verse plainly arlds conou- Hebron sons, with their mothers, is nearly bines, perhaps the ten spoken of in 2 Sam. iclentical with that of 2 Sam. iii. 2-5, xv. 16, to the number of the mothers of the although the differences, slight os they are, foregoing sons. The mention or only one woulcl of the two indicate our list here daughter of Da.vicl, viz. Ta.mar, follows the mther as 11ot copied than copied thence. mauifest ordinary rule, that daughters are The only noticeable difference, however, is not recorded at all, except for one of two in the name of the second son, o.nnounced reasons-either that through a daughter the here RB Daniel, instead of Chileab, while the line was saved, or that the daughter had Septungint has Aall.oufa. This, together from some special reason made 11, place for with the circumstance that one word would, herself in history. as rea-arde the Hebrew characters, com• Vera. 10-16.-The line of royal descent pnra.u'~ely easily convert into the other, from David, is now rapidly carried dol'l'n in renders it probable lhat it is merely a these verses-.firBl,o.s far as good King Josiah, corrupt text or text obscure at this point sixteen ienerations in all ( omitting, quite which has occasioned the difference. The consistently, Athalia, who reignecl by her meanino- of the name Daniel, put side by own usurpation for six years on the death side witl1 who.t we read in 1 Sam. xxiv. 15, of her son Azariah); and then, by four suc- xxv. 39, suggests strongly that it is the cessions (viz. two brothers, sons of Josiah, rio-ht name of the two. It was a name and 11, grandson and great-gra.nd•on of likely to be given by David to his first Josiah), to the Captivity. child by Abigail. Additional suspicion is Ver. 10.-Though the Authorized Ver- thrown on the name Chilcab through the sion has Ahia. the Hebrew word is ;,;::i_N both three last letters of it, " l~ab," constitut- here and in 2 Chron. xiii. I, 23 (or Authorized ing also the three fir,t of the very next Version, xiv. 1), in both of which passages, word," of Abigail" 6-•t::i!i~) which looks very ns also elsewhere, our Authorized Version much like the over-haste of the pen un- has Ahijah. Anotiler form is Abijam (c;;i~), corrocted. It is remarkable that the Syriao as in l Kings xiv. 31 o.nd elsewhere. A and Aro.bio versions tro.nslo.te " Caleb," corrupt form (1n;;i~) is found in 2 Chron. xiii. both here and in the parallel passage. For 20. We ho.ve the name in the New Testa- the sons born in Jerusalem we have nil ment genealogy (l\Iatt. i. 7, lS}. three parallel lists at command, and the Ver. 11.-Ahazio.h. This name is found variations are ro.ther greater. The other ae Azo.riah in 2 Chron. xxii. G; aml, by a two lists are in 2 Sam. v. 14-16; eh. shifting of the deriva.tivo pC1rt of the worcl, xiv. 4-7. The first of these omits as J choahaz in 2 Chron. x.xi. 17 : thus, Eliphelet and Noga.h (possibly they died ~il'tnN or tn~iil•. young or without issue), and the lo.tter calls Eliphelet Elpalet (07~7~). Again, •v;:. 12,:_:A~ario.h. This name is found in 2 Chrou. xxvi. 1; xxvii. 2, as Uzzio.h; Shimeo.h o.nd Elisho.mo. in our po.ssage must but in the Secoucl Book of Kings it is fouml yield, overruled by the consent of the other sometimes as UzziC1h o.ud sometimes o.s Aza- two, to Sho.mmuah aud Elishua. Again, it ie riah in the very same chC1pter ( cf. 2 Kings to be noticed tho.t the name Eliada (God {SN) xv. 13 nnd 17, 23 o.ud 32, and see Ge- knoweth}, on occasion of its lateiit occur- feuius, 'Lexicon,' sub voce). We have the rence (eh. xiv. 7), o.ppe1u• as Bee!iailo. uume o.s Azarii\h in MC1tt. i. 8, 9. (the Lord ('Jl~) knoweth), preserving therein Ver. 15.-The first thing to be observed in this verse ie tho.t, though it lays stress on probo.bly its earlier forrn, viz. that used the mention of the 11C1.me of Josiah's first- before a settlell bad sense had come to be born of four sons ns Johe.nan, this is lho only attached to the word Bo.a.I (see • Speaker's mention of him. Some, however, have taken Cummentary,' in Zoe.). 1he Jehoo.ht1z of 2 Kings xxiii. 30 for him. Ver. 5.-In this verse we have the form Noxt, tho.t Jehoio.kim wns not the origi- Bathehua for the familiar name Bathsheba, nal no.mo of the next brother, hut a n,imo i.e. Jl!Ci-n~ for 11~:t-n~, in which lo.ttcr word slightly altered by Phnrnoh.Necho from p::i\',1 is e. shorter form of ;,p1::i\)'. In the same Eli11ld111 (2 Kings xxiii. B4). It' tho ,lnt,·~ of 2 Kings xxiii. 31, 34, 3G, bo corn·ct, thoro v~~se we have ',i-,:,op here f~r ~v,,i-: in 2 Sam. is no doubt tho.t, though Johoiakim, i.e. ;i.i. 3. The for~e/ name occ~~;' often, e.g. Eliakitu, reigned after J eLo:1lrnz, yet he J. CllRO~ICLES. D  THE FIHST llOOK OF TIIE CHRONICLES. [err. m. 1-2·1,