Man living at the time of Divided Monarchy
Arnan was a descendant of David's son Solomon (1Ch.3.21).
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Arnan was a descendant of King David of Israel through his son Solomon, appearing in a genealogy in 1 Chronicles. He was the son of Rephaiah, the son of Jeshaiah, the son of Hananiah, the son of Zerubbabel, who led the first group of exiles back from Babylon.
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In the received Hebrew text “the sons of Arnan” are mentioned in the genealogy of Zerubbabel. (1 Chronicles 3:21)
Easton (1897), Smith (1863), Hitchcock (1869), Hastings (1898) and Schaff are in the public domain. Parsed text: neuu-org/bible-dictionary-dataset (CC BY 4.0). Headwords and whitespace normalised for this site.
1 verse in 1 book · English text: BSB (change it from the menu at the top) · Strong’s H0770
The descendants of Hananiah: Pelatiah, Jeshaiah, and the sons of Rephaiah, of Arnan, of Obadiah, and of Shecaniah.
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