1 Chronicles 3:17
SUCCESSORS OF JECONIAH. (I Chronicles 3:17-24)
the sons of Jeconiah; Assir—rather, "Jeconiah the prisoner," or "captive." This record of his condition was added to show that Salathiel was born during the captivity in Babylon (compare Matthew 1:12). Jeconiah was written childless (Jeremiah 22:30), a prediction which (as the words that follow explain) meant that this unfortunate monarch should have no son succeeding him on the throne.
