Passage

1 Chronicles 3.17

Book: 1 Chronicles · ASV / WEB / KJV / YLT

Immediate context (±2 verses)

ASV

15. And the sons of Josiah: the first-born Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum. 16. And the sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son.

17. And the sons of Jeconiah, the captive: Shealtiel his son,

and Malchiram, and Pedaiah, and Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah. 19. And the sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel, and Shimei. And the sons of Zerubbabel: Meshullam, and Hananiah; and Shelomith was their sister; (1 Chronicles 3:15-19, ASV)

WEB

15. The sons of Josiah: the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, and the fourth Shallum. 16. The sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, and Zedekiah his son.

17. The sons of Jeconiah, the captive: Shealtiel his son,

Malchiram, Pedaiah, Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah. 19. The sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel and Shimei. The sons of Zerubbabel: Meshullam and Hananiah; and Shelomith was their sister; (1 Chronicles 3:15-19, WEB)

KJV

15. And the sons of Josiah were, the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum. ^{Johanan: or, Jehochaz 2.kin.23.30.} ^{Jehoiakim: or, Eliakim 2.kin.23.34.} ^{Zedekiah: or, Mathaniah.2.kin.24.17.} 16. And the sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son. ^{Jeconiah: also called, Jehoiachin 2kin.24.6, Zedekiah: or Coniah ier.22.24}

17. And the sons of Jeconiah; Assir, Salathiel his son, ^{Salathiel: Heb. Shealtiel}

Malchiram also, and Pedaiah, and Shenazar, Jecamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah. 19. And the sons of Pedaiah were, Zerubbabel, and Shimei: and the sons of Zerubbabel; Meshullam, and Hananiah, and Shelomith their sister: (1 Chronicles 3:15-19, KJV)

YLT

15. And sons of Josiah: the first-born Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum. 16. And sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son.

17. And sons of Jeconiah: Assir; Salathiel his son;

also Malchiram and Pedaiah, and Shenazzar, Jecamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah. 19. And sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel, and Shimei. And sons of Zerubbabel: Meshullam, and Hananiah, and Shelomith their sister, (1 Chronicles 3:15-19, YLT)

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Setting

Speaker: narrator (the Chronicler), in the royal genealogy
Audience: the restored community in the Persian province of Yehud, rebuilding around temple and priesthood with no king of their own
Location: the Davidic line in Babylonian captivity
Time period: genealogical material reaching from Adam to the returnees, compiled after the return from Babylon, commonly placed c. 400 BC

Theological reading

Jeconiah is Jehoiachin, the king deported in 597 BC, and the epithet "the captive" is attached to his name in the list itself. The verse matters because of Jeremiah 22:30, which declares that no man of his seed shall prosper sitting on the throne of David, a text sometimes pressed as a curse that would bar any descendant from the messianic line.

Two constraints on that reading come from the text itself. Jeremiah's wording is about prospering on David's throne in that era, and the same book promises a righteous Branch for David at 23:5. And 2 Kings 25:27-30 records Jehoiachin released and honored at the Babylonian table, while Haggai 2:23 reverses the signet-ring image of Jeremiah 22:24 onto his grandson Zerubbabel. The line continues in this very list through Shealtiel and Zerubbabel, which is the Chronicler's own answer to the question._

Key words

Theologically-loaded Greek or Hebrew words in this verse may have entries in the lexicon. Curated to roughly 100 contested terms across the corpus, not every word.

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Why these four translations

ris3n chose ASV, WEB, KJV, and YLT for two reasons together. They are the most literal English translations available (formal-equivalence: word-for-word renderings that preserve the Hebrew and Greek grammar rather than smoothing it into modern dynamic-equivalence idiom). And they are in the public domain in the United States, which means fair-use quotation at any length requires no publisher license. Modern licensed translations (NASB95, ESV, NIV) restrict volume of quotation under their copyright terms, so they are not used at stub-level coverage here. NASB95 appears only on hand-curated rich passage hubs under Lockman Foundation's fair-use allowance.

The four:

ASV (American Standard Version, 1901). The basis of the modern critical-text English tradition.
WEB (World English Bible, contemporary). Public-domain revision in the ASV line, in current English.
KJV (King James Version, 1611). Reformation-era, Textus Receptus base.
YLT (Young's Literal Translation, Robert Young, 1862). Hyper-literal preservation of Hebrew and Greek grammar; useful for word-study work even where English reads stiff.

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