Annotations upon the remaining historicall part of the Old Testament. The second part. to wit, the books of Joshua, Judges, the two books of Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles, and the books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther : wherein first, all such passages in the text are explained as were thought likely to be questioned by any reader of ordinary capacity : secondly, in many clauses those things are discovered which are needfull and usefull to be known ... and thirdly, many places that might at first seem to contradict one another are reconciled ... / by Arthur Jackson.

CHAP. III.

Vers. 1. NOw these are the sonnes of David, which were born unto him in He∣bron, &c.] What is to be noted in these first foure verses, see 2. Sa∣muel 3.2, 3, 5.

Vers. 5. Shimea, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, foure of Bath-shua the daughter of Ammuel.] Solomon is here named last, because his posterity is immediately to be expressed, vers, 10. but he was the eldest of these foure sonnes which David had by Bath-shua, or Bath-sheba, as is evident, 2. Sam. 12.24. and therefore Bath-shebaes onely darling, Prov. 4.3. For I was my fathers sonne, ten∣der, and onely beloved in the sight of my mother.

Vers. 6. Ibhar also, and Elishama, &c.] There are but seven of these mentioned, 2. Sam. 5.15. For Noga is not there mentioned, and but one Eliphalet; whereas it is manifest by this place, that he had two sonnes (perhaps by two severall wives) that were called Eliphelet, as he had two also that were called Elishama; for he that is called Elishua, 2. Sam. 5.15. is here called Elishama.

Vers. 15. And the sonnes of Josiah were, the first-born Johanan, &c.] Ei∣ther Johanan was indeed the first-born of Josiahs sonnes, but dyed before his fa∣ther, and so never came to the kingdome, and then it is Jehoahaz that was first king that is here called Shallum, and reckoned in the fourth place; or else Jehoahaz is here called Johanan, and is called the first-born, either because he was indeed the eldest of Josiahs sonnes, (of which see the notes on 2. Kings 23.36) or else be∣cause

he was the eldest by his wife Hamutal, (who was happely his first and prin∣cipall wife) or at least because he first succeeded in the throne as the first-born, 2. Kings 23.30.31.

Vers. 16. And the sonnes of Jehoiakim; Jeconiah his sonne, Zedekiah his sonne.] It is manifest that Zedekiah who was made king of Judah by the king of Ba∣bylon, when Jehoiachin or Jeconiah was carried captive to Babylon, and was the lost king of Judah, was the sonne of Josiah, 2. Kings 24.17. the brother of Jehoia∣kim, and uncle of Jehojachin or Jeconiah who was king immediately before him; either therefore Zedekiah the last king of Judah, is here called the sonne of Jeco∣niah or Jehojachin, onely because he succeeded him (as his heir) in the throne of Judah; or else this Zedekiah here mentioned, is not Zedekiah the sonne of Josiah king of Judah, but another of that name, the sonne of Jehoiakim, and brother of Jehojachin, or Jeconiah, who is no where else mentioned in the Scriptures.

Vers. 17. And the sonnes of Jeconiah; Assir, Salathiel his sonne, &c.] Though it was prophecyed concerning Jeconiah, that he should be as a man that was childlesse, in regard of having the royall dignity continued in his posterity; be∣cause none of his seed should sit in the throne of David, Jer. 22.30. Thus saith the Lord, Write ye this man childlesse, a man that shall not prosper in his dayes: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah: yet it is evident by this place, that he had severall sonnes after he was carried into Babylon; to wit, Assir, and Salathiel, and Malchiram, &c. eight in number; unlesse we should conceive, that Salathiel and those that follow were the grandchildren of Jeconiah, by his sonne Assir, as the words seeme to imply, Assir, Salathiel his sonne; or that Salathiel was called Assir Salathiel, which may seeme the more probable, because, Assir signifieth one in bonds; and so Salathiel might be called in reference to Jeconiahs being carried bound into Babylon, (as we see the like in Gershom, Exod. 2.22.) as also because Salathiel is named as the sonne of Jeconiah, Matth. 1.12. And after they were brought to Babylon, Jeco∣nias begat Salathiel. Indeed some conceive that Salathiel came of the stock of Na∣than, and is here onely mentioned as a sonne of Jeconiah, because he succeeded in some kind of government after Jeconiah, and that he was of the stock of Nathan: But me thinks it is farre more probable that this Salathiel here mentioned, and so a∣gain, Matth. 1.12. was indeed the true sonne of Jeconiah, and that both Salathiel and Zerubbabel mentioned by Luke, chapter 3.27. are diverse from these mentioned here, and in Matthew.

Vers. 19. And the sonnes of Pedaiah were, Zerubbabel and Shimei.] Pedaiah is mentioned in the former verse, as a sonne of Jeconiah, and made here the father of Zerubbabel; evident indeed it is, that Salathiel had also a sonne called Zerubbabel, Matth. 1.12. and Salathiel begat Zorobabel. Hag. 1.1. In the second yeare of Darius — came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet, unto Zerubbabel the sonne of Shealtiel. But this Zerubbabel was it seemes the sonne of Pedaiah, who was the brother or uncle of Salathiel.

And the sonnes of Zerubbabel; Meshullam, and Hananiah, and Shelomith their sister.] Probable it is that these two sonnes of Zerubbabel are here mentioned;

first by themselves, with their sister Shelomith, because these he had by one wife, and the other five mentioned in the following verse, by another.

Vers. 21. And the sonnes of Hananiah; Pelatiah, and Jesaiah: the sonnes of Rephaiah, the sonnes of Arnan, &c,] That is, all these families were of the stock of Hananiel.

Vers. 22. And the sonnes of Shechaniah; Shemaiah: and the sonnes of She∣maiah; Hattush, and Igeal, and Bariah, and Neariah, and Shaphat, six.] That is, the sonnes of Shechaniah were six, to wit, reckoning his sonne Shemaiah, and his five grand-children, the sonnes of Shemaiah.