1-Chronicles - 2:34



34 Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha.

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Explanation and meaning of 1-Chronicles 2:34.

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And Sesan had no sons, but daughters and a servant an Egyptian, named Jeraa.
And Sheshan had no sons, but daughters; and Sheshan had an Egyptian servant, whose name was Jarha;
Now Sheshan did not have sons, but only daughters, and an Egyptian servant named Jarha.

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Whose name was Jarha - "And he gave him his liberty, and gave him Sheshan his daughter to wife." - T.

Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters,.... And but one of that sort, whose name was Ahlai, 1-Chronicles 2:31 the plural being put here for the singular; or, if that is the name of a son, as some think, he died in his father's lifetime, and left no issue; so that there only remained daughters, and it seems but one by the next verse:
and Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha; one born in his house, and brought up by him, and a proselyte, such an one as Eliezer in Abraham's family.

Sheshan had no sons, but daughters--either he had no sons alive at his death, or his family consisted wholly of daughters, of whom Ahlai (1-Chronicles 2:31) was one, she being specially mentioned on account of the domestic relations about to be noted.

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