1 Chronicles 2:34

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

1 Chronicles 2:34 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 2:34

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.

1 Chronicles 2:34 In-Context

32 The sons of Yada the brother of Shamai: Yeter and Yonatan. Yeter died without having any children.
33 The sons of Yonatan: Pelet and Zaza. These were the descendants of Yerachme'el.
34 Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Yarcha;
35 Sheshan gave his daughter in marriage to Yarcha his servant, and she bore him 'Atai.
36 'Atai fathered Natan, Natan fathered Zavad,
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