1-chronicles 3:17

Translations

King James Version (KJV)

And the sons of Jeconiah; Assir, Salathiel his son,

American King James Version (AKJV)

And the sons of Jeconiah; Assir, Salathiel his son,

American Standard Version (ASV)

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

Basic English Translation (BBE)

And the sons of Jeconiah, who was taken prisoner: Shealtiel his son,

Webster's Revision

And the sons of Jeconiah; Assir, Salathiel his son.

World English Bible

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

English Revised Version (ERV)

And the sons of Jeconiah, the captive; Shealtiel his son,

Clarke's 1-chronicles 3:17 Bible Commentary

The sons of Jeconiah - Jeremiah has said (Jeremiah 22:30) that Jeconiah, or, as he calls him, Coniah, should be childless; but this must refer to his posterity being deprived of the throne, and indeed thus the prophet interprets it himself: For no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.

Assir - Salathiel was not the son of Assir, but of Jeconiah, Matthew 1:12. Who then was Assir? Possibly nobody; for as the Hebrew אסר assir signifies a prisoner, it may be considered as an epithet of Jeconiah, who we know was a very long time prisoner in Babylon. See 2 Kings 24:15 and Calmet.

Barnes's 1-chronicles 3:17 Bible Commentary

Assir - Perhaps born in the captivity, and therefore so named, who either (died young, or was made a eunuch (Isaiah 39:7; compare Jeremiah 22:30). After Assir's decease, or mutilation, the line of Solomon became extinct, and according to the principles of the Jewish law Numbers 27:8-11 the inheritance passed to the next of kin, who were Salathiel and his brethren, descendants from David by the line of Nathan. Luke in calling Salathiel "the son of Neri" Luke 3:27, gives his real, or natural, descent; since no genealogy would assign to the true son and heir of a king any inferior and private parentage. Hence, "Malchiram," etc., i. e. not Salathiel only, but his brothers also were reckoned "sons" of Jeconiah.

Wesley's 1-chronicles 3:17 Bible Commentary

3:17 Assir - Or, of Jechoniah the captive, which is added to shew that he begat his son when he was captive in Babylon.