... With respect to the more complex problem in verse 21b, there are four options for the text: 1) With the Masoretic Text, reading bĕnê four times in verse 21b, verse 21 reads: ‘And the son(s) of Hananiah: Pelatiah and Jeshaiah; the sons of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shecaniah.’ The result in verse 21b is a list of four families named after a father—but families with no explicit connection to Hananiah or his sons, that is, with those who precede them in the genealogy. 2) With the Septuagint, reading bĕnô for the Masoretic Text’s bĕnê four times and adding bĕnô after Shecaniah in verse 21b, verse 21 reads: ‘And the son(s) of Hananiah: Pelatiah, and Jeshaiah his son, Rephaiah his son, Arnan his son, Obadiah his son, Shecaniah his son.’ Here one finds the typical form of a linear genealogy tracing six generations after Hananiah, as for example in 3:10-14. ...