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Person Old Testament

Arnan

Arnan was a descendant of David's son Solomon (1Ch.3.21). Mentioned once in Scripture, at 1 Chronicles 3:21.

Why it matters. Descendant of David's son Solomon

Primary passages
Last reviewed
2026-08-30 by the FaithGraph team

About Arnan

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.

Description from STEPBible TIPNR (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0, lightly reformatted. This is background reference material, not Scripture and not a FaithGraph editorial claim.

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Family

Family links from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0). Where the dataset marks an identification as uncertain, the mark is kept. Matthew and Luke give different genealogies for Jesus; see the Lineage page, which never merges them.

Parents
Hananiah

Appears in Scripture

Named in 1 verse across 1 book. Occurrence data from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0); references only, no translation text.

  • 1 Chronicles (1 verse)

    3:21

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