16. Among the sons
of Josiah (iii. 15 seq.), Johanan, i.e. Jehoahaz, is
distinguished from Shallum (Jeremiah xxii. 11), and because he
immediately succeeded his father, is represented as the
first-born, though in truth Jehoiakim was older (2Kings xxiii.
3I, 36); Zedekiah, Jehoiakim's brother, is given out to be the
son of Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim, because he was the
successor of Jeconiah, who succeeded Jehoiakim. Similar things
occur also in the Book of Daniel, but are usually overlooked, with
a mistaken piety. Whoever has eyes to see cannot assign any high
value except to the two great Jewish genealogies in chaps. ii.
and iv. Yet even here the most heterogeneous elements are tossed
together, and chaff is found mingled with wheat. /1/
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1. For further details the reader is referred to the author's
dissertation De gentibus et familiis Judaeis, Gottingen, 1870.
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Apart from the introduction, vers.1-8, chap. ii. is a genealogy
of the children of Hezron, a tribe which in David's time had not
yet been wholly amalgamated with Judah, but which even then
constituted the real strength of that tribe and afterwards became
completely one with it.
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