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Who was Zerubbabel's father?
Chronicles gives Zerubbabel a different father from the one named in Ezra, Nehemiah, Haggai, and the Gospel genealogies.
- Textual conflict
- Direct contradiction
- The quoted passages make incompatible claims about the same subject under the same conditions. Little additional inference is needed.
- Importance
- Minor
- A local detail in a story, chronology, or inventory.
Direct corresponding genealogical identifications repeatedly assign Zerubbabel to Shealtiel but once assign him to Pedaiah without a different parental role.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
Zerubbabel is listed as Pedaiah's son
And the sons of Pedaiah were, Zerubbabel, and Shimei: and the sons of Zerubbabel; Meshullam, and Hananiah, and Shelomith their sister:
1 Chronicles 3:19
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:1 Chronicles 3
Zerubbabel is repeatedly identified as Shealtiel's son
Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and builded the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings thereon, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.
Ezra 3:2
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:Ezra 3