Of all the families of Israel none was so illustrious as the family of David. That is the family which was mentioned in the foregoing chapter, 1 Chron. 2:15. Here we have a full account of it. I. David’s sons, 1 Chron. 3:1–9. II.

We had an account of David’s sons, 2 Sam. 3:2–5 2 Sam. 5:14–16, &c. 1. He had many sons; and no doubt wrote as he thought, Ps. 127:5. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of these arrows. 2.

David having nineteen sons, we may suppose them to have raised many noble families in Israel whom we never hear of in the history. But the scripture gives us an account only of the descendants of Solomon here, and of Nathan, Luke 3:31 The rest had the honour to be the sons of David; but these only…