The sons of David - The writer returns to the point at which he had left the posterity of Ram 1 Chronicles 2:9, 1 Chronicles 2:15, and traces out the family of David - the royal house of the tribe of Judah.
Daniel - See the marginal note and reference.
There are three lists of the sons of David, born in Jerusalem.
| 1. Shammuah | Shimeah* | Shammuah |
| 2. Shobab | Shobab | Shobab |
| 3. Nathan | Nathan | Nathan |
| 4. Solomon | Solomon | Solomon |
| 5. Ibhar | Ibhar | Ibhar |
| 6. Elishua | Elishama* | Elishua |
| 7. a | Eliphelet* | Elpalet* |
| 8. a | Nogah | Nogah |
| 9. Nepheg | Nepheg | Nepheg |
| 10. Japhia | Japhia | Japhia |
| 11. Elishama | Elishama | Elishama |
| 12. Eliada | Eliada | Beeliada* |
| 13. Eliphelet | Eliphelet | Eliphelet |
| (Differences are marked with an asterick). | ||
A comparison of the three lists serves to show:
(1) that “Shimeah” and the first “Elishama” in the list of this chapter are corruptions;
(2) that David had really 13 sons born in Jerusalem, of whom two - the first Eliphelet and Nogah - probably died in their childhood; and
(3) that Eliada, the twelfth son, was also called Beeliada, the term Baal, “lord,” not having (previous to the introduction of the Baal worship) a bad sense, but being regarded as an equivalent with El, “God.”