The Expositor's Bible: The Books of Chronicles

206

Kings v. 13; ix. 22, which seems to contradict this, is an editorial note.

207

2 Chron. ii. 2, 17, 18; viii. 7-10.

208

1 Kings ix. 11, 12.

209

2 Chron. viii. 1, 2, R.V.

210

1 Chron. xxii. 9.

211

1 Chron. xxix. 23, 24.

212

2 Chron. i. 7-13.

213

2 Chron. i. 14-17.

214

v. 11, 12, peculiar to Chronicles.

215

vi. 41, 42, peculiar to Chronicles, apparently based on Psalm cxxxii. 8-10.

216

1 Chron. xxi. 26; 2 Chron. vii. 1-3, both peculiar to Chronicles.

217

vii. 8-10, mostly peculiar to Chronicles. The text in 1 Kings viii. 65 has been interpolated from Chronicles.

218

vii. 13-15, peculiar to Chronicles.

219

viii. 3, 4, peculiar to Chronicles. Hamath is apparently referred to as a possession of Judah in 2 Kings xiv. 28.

220

viii. 12-16, peculiar in this form to Chronicles, but based upon 1 Kings ix. 25.

221

ix., as in 1 Kings x. 1-13.

222

ix. 31.

223

ix. 28.

224

It is not suggested that the chronicler intended to convey this impression, or that it would be felt by most of his readers.

225

xiv. 3, 5, contradicting 1 Kings xv. 14 and apparently 2 Chron. xv. 17.

226

xv. 8-14, peculiar to Chronicles.

227

xv. 18, 19.

228

xvii. 6 contradicts 1 Kings xxii. 43 and 2 Chron. xx. 33.

229

xvii. 7-9, peculiar to Chronicles.

230

xxiv. 1-14.

231

xxi. 11, peculiar to Chronicles.

232

xxv. 4.

233

2 Chron. xxviii. 24-xxxi., mostly peculiar to Chronicles; but compare Kings xviii. 4-7, which mentions the taking away of the high places.

234

xxxiii. 16.

235

xxxiv.; xxxv.

236

xxx. 2.

237

xxii. 1; xxiii. 1-15; xxvi. 1; xxxiii. 25; xxxvi. 1.

238

xxv. 12.

239

xvi. 12.

240

xx. 37.

241

xxiv. 20-27.

242

xxv. 14-27.

243

xxvi. 16-23.

244

xxxii. 25-33.

245

xxxv. 20-27.

246

Milton, Hymn to the Nativity.

247

Tennyson, In Memoriam.

248

2 Chron. ix. 1.

249

Prov. xxxi. 1-9.

250

Articles XXI. and XXXVII.

251

Eph. ii. 12.

252

2 Chron. xii. 12, peculiar to Chronicles.

253

1 Kings xv. 3.

254

2 Chron. xxxiii. 11-20, peculiar to Chronicles.

255

2 Kings xxiii. 32.

256

2 Kings xvi. 5.

257

Isa. viii. 2.

258

2 Chron. xxxiii. 9.

259

2 Chron. xxxvi. 5, 8, 11.

260

2 Chron. xxviii. 5-15, peculiar to Chronicles; cf. 2 Kings xvi. 5, 6.

261

2 Chron. xxviii. 16-25, peculiar to Chronicles; cf. 2 Kings xvi. 7-18.

262

xxviii. 27, peculiar to Chronicles.

263

2 Chron. xi. 13, 14, xxix. 34, xxx. 27, all peculiar to Chronicles. In xxx. 27 the text is doubtful; many authorities have “the priests and the Levites.”

264

I.e., in the view given us by the chronicler of the period of the monarchy, after the Return the priests were far more numerous than the Levites.

265

1 Chron. xxvi. 30-32.

266

2 Chron. xix. 4-11.

267

2 Chron. xv. 3. In the older literature the phrase would bear a more special and technical meaning.

268

Exod. xxxii. 26-35.

269

Num. xxv. 3.

270

Psalm cvi. 30, 31.

271

1 Chron. xii. 23-28.

272

1 Chron. xxvii. 5; cf. however, R.V. marg.

273

2 Chron. xiii. 12.

274

2 Chron. xxiii. 7. All the passages referred to in this paragraph are peculiar to Chronicles.

275

Neh. iv. 17.

276

1 Macc. v. 67.

277

1 Chron. xiii. 8; xvi. 2.

278

1 Chron. xxix. 10-19.

279

2 Chron. vi.

280

2 Chron. xx. 4-13; xxx. 6-9, 18-21, 27.

281

2 Chron. xxxv.

282

1 Chron. xiii. 10.

283

2 Chron. xxvi. 16-23.

284

2 Chron. xxxi. 3-5.

285

Mal. i. 8; iii. 4, 10.

286

2 Chron. xxxi. 10.

287

Exod. xv. 3.

288

Psalm lxxiv. 8, 9. This psalm is commonly regarded as Maccabæan, but may be as early as the chronicler or even earlier.

289

1 Macc. iv. 46.

290

Ezra ii. 63.

291

2 Chron. xxix. 25, peculiar to Chronicles.

292

2 Chron. xii. 5-8, peculiar to Chronicles.

293

2 Chron. xv. – xvi. 10, peculiar to Chronicles.

294

2 Chron. xix. 2, 3, xx. 14-18, 37, all peculiar to Chronicles.

295

xxi. 12-15, peculiar to Chronicles.

296

xxiv. 18-22, peculiar to Chronicles.

297

xiv. 15, 16, peculiar to Chronicles.

298

2 Kings xix. 5-7, 20-34.

299

xxxii. 20.

300

xxxiii. 10, 18.

301

xxxv. 21, 22, 25, peculiar to Chronicles.

302

1 Esdras i. 28.

303

Ezra v. 1; vi. 14.

304

Neh. vi. 14.

305

1 Chron. xii. 18, peculiar to Chronicles.

306

Acts ii. 30.

307

2 Kings iv. 42.

308

Abbott, Through Nature to Christ, p. 295.

309

Jer. xv. 10.

310

Deut. xviii. 18.

311

Ecclus. xlix. 10.

312

R.V. “delight in” is somewhat too strong.

313

It is, however, possible that the text in Samuel is a corruption of text more closely parallel to that of Chronicles.

314

Noldius and R. Salom. apud Bertheau i. 1.

315

Josh. xviii. 28; Judges i. 21, as against Josh. xv. 63; Judges i. 8, which assign the city to Judah.

316

1 Chron. xxvii. 23, 24.

317

Ver. 7 is apparently a general anticipation of the narrative in vv. 9-15.

318

Josh. v. 13.

319

Schultz, Old Testament Theology, ii. 270.

320

Exod. iv. 21; Josh. xi. 20; 1 Sam. xix. 9, 10; 2 Sam. xxiv. 1; 1 Kings xxii. 20-23.

321

Prov. xvi. 4; Lam. iii. 38; Isa. xlv. 7.

322

Zech. iii. 1.

323

Jer. vii. 12-14; xxvi. 6.

324

1 Chron. xxviii. 19.

325

Heb. vii. 14.

326

Hos. xii. 13.

327

Schultz, Old Testament Theology, ii. 353.

328

2 Chron. xxx. 6; 1 Kings xviii. 36.

329

1 Chron. xvi. 13, 17; Gen. xxxii. 28.

330

Gen. xxiii. 4; cf. Psalms xxxix. 13, cxix. 19.

331

Job viii. 9.

332

Called, however, at that time Antonia.

333

viii. 9.

334

xi. 5-xii. 1, peculiar to Chronicles.

335

xii. 2-8, 12, peculiar to Chronicles.

336

xii. 14, peculiar to Chronicles.

337

Ecclus. xlvii. 23.

338

xiii. 3-22, peculiar to Chronicles.

339

Josh. xviii. 22.

340

Judges ix. 8.

341

Num. xviii. 19.

342

2 Chron. x. 15.

343

This verse must of course be understood to give his whole family history, and not merely that of his three years' reign.

344

xiv. 1, 7, peculiar to Chronicles.

345

xiv. 3-9, peculiar to Chronicles.

346

1 Chron. xii., etc.; 2 Chron. xi. 5 ff., xvii. 12 ff., xxvi. 9 ff. xxvii. 4 ff., xxxiii. 14.

347

xiv. 9-15.

348

So R.V. marg.; R.V. text (with which A.V. is in substantial agreement): “There fell of the Ethiopians so many that they could not recover themselves”; i. e., the routed army were never able to rally.

349

The second reformation is dated early in Asa's fifteenth year, and Abijah only reigned three years.

350

xv., based upon 1 Kings xv. 13-15, but the great bulk of the chapter is peculiar to Chronicles; the original passage from Kings is reproduced, with slight changes in vv. 16-18.

351

2 Sam. xii. 9-11. “Barak” with LXX. and Peshite; Masoretic text has “Bedan.”

352

Judges v. 6, 7; vi. 11; viii. 15-17; ix.; xii. 1-7; xx.; xxi.

353

Cf. 1 Kings xv. 12.

354

1 Chron. ix. 3.

355

Exod. xxii. 20; Deut. xiii. 5, 9, 15.

356

1 Kings xv. 16, 32, 33.

357

xvi. 7-10, peculiar to Chronicles.

358

Isa. vii. 17.

359

Isa. xxxi. 1; xxx. 3.

360

Jer. ii. 36.

361

Zech. iv. 10.

362

The date, as before, is peculiar to Chronicles.

363

xvi. 12b, peculiar to Chronicles.

364

Time and Tide, xii. 67.

365

George Eliot, Romola, xxi.

366

Part II., Chap. IX.

367

xvii., peculiar to Chronicles.

368

1 Chron. xviii. 1-3.

369

xix. 1-3, peculiar to Chronicles.

370

xix. 4-11, peculiar to Chronicles.

371

Milman, Latin Christianity, Book XI., Chap. I.

372

xx. 1-30, peculiar to Chronicles.

373

So R.V. marg., with the LXX. The Targum has “Edomites,” the A.V. is not justified by the Hebrew, and the R.V. does not make sense.

374

Cf. 1 Chron. iv. 41, R.V.; and 2 Chron. xxvi. 7.

375

One Hebrew manuscript is quoted as having this reading. A.R.V., with the ordinary Masoretic text, have “Syria”; but it is simply absurd to suppose that a multitude from beyond the sea from Syria would first make their appearance on the western shore of the Dead Sea.

376

2 Chron. iv. 9.

377

Ver. 9; cf. 2 Chron. vi. 28, and the whole paragraph (vv. 22-30) of which our verse is a brief abstract.

378

Not Ziz, as A.R.V.

379

הדרת קדש, literally, as A.R.V., “beauty of holiness”; i. e., sacred robes. Translate with R.V. marg. “praise in the beauty of holiness,” not, as A.R.V., “praise the beauty of holiness.”

380

Exod. xiv. 30.

381

With R.V. marg.

382

The identification of the valley of Berachah with the valley of Jehoshaphat, close to Jerusalem and mentioned by Josephus, is a mere theory, quite at variance with the topographical evidence.

383

Kings xxii. 48, 49.

384

2 Chron. xxiv. 24, peculiar to Chronicles.

385

Psalm xx. 7.

386

1 Macc. ii. 35-38.

387

xxi. 2-4, peculiar to Chronicles.

388

Vv. 5-10; cf. 2 Kings viii. 17-22.

389

xxi. 11-19, peculiar to Chronicles.

390

So R.V. marg., with LXX. and Vulgate A.R.V. have “mountains,” with Masoretic text.

391

Jer. xxix.; xxxvi.

392

Green's Shorter History, p. 404.

393

xxii. 1b, peculiar to Chronicles.

394

The Hebrew original of the A.R.V., “departed without being desired,” is as obscure as the English of our versions. The most probable translation is, “He behaved so as to please no one.” The A.R.V. apparently mean that no one regretted his death.

395

We need not discuss in detail the question of Ahaziah's age at his accession. The age of forty-two, given in 2 Chron. xxii. 2, is simply impossible, seeing that his father was only forty years old when he died. The Peshito and Arabic versions have followed 2 Kings viii. 26, and altered forty-two to twenty-two; and the LXX. reads twenty years. But twenty-two years still presents difficulties. According to this reading, Ahaziah, Jehoram's youngest son, was born when his father was only eighteen, and Jehoram having had several sons before the age of eighteen, had none afterwards.

396

xiii. 7a, peculiar to Chronicles.

397

Cf. p. 20.

398

Cf. xxv. 2 with 2 Kings xiv. 4, xxvi. 4 with 2 Kings xv. 4, xxvii. 2 with 2 Kings xv. 34, where similar statements are omitted by the chronicler.

399

2 Kings xii. 9.

400

Exod. xxx. 11-16.

401

Neh. x. 32.

402

xxiv. 14-22, peculiar to Chronicles.

403

Curiously enough, Jehoiada's name does not occur in the list of high-priests in 1 Chron. vi. 1-12.

404

1 Chron. xxviii. 9; 2 Chron. vii. 19, xii. 5, xiii. 10, xv. 2, xxi. 10, xxviii. 6, xxix. 6, xxxiv. 25.

405

Cf. 2 Kings xii. 17, 18, of which this narrative is probably an adaptation.

406

xxv. 5-13, peculiar to Chronicles, except that the account of the war with Edom is expanded from the brief note in Kings. Cf. ver. 11b with 2 Kings xiv. 7.

407

In the phrase “from Samaria to Beth-horon,” “Samaria” apparently means the northern kingdom, and not the city, i. e., from the borders of Samaria; the chronicler has fallen into the nomenclature of his own age.

408

For the discussion of the chronicler's account of Ahaz see Book III., Chap. VII.

409

So R.V. marg., with LXX., Targum, Syriac and Arabic versions, Talmud, Rashi, Kimchi, and some Hebrew manuscripts (Bertheau, i. 1). A.R.V., “had understanding in the visions” (R.V. vision) “of God.” The difference between the two Hebrew readings is very slight. Vv. 5-20, with the exception of the bare fact of the leprosy are peculiar to Chronicles.

410

Cf. Ezek. xxvi. 9.

411

Pliny, vii. 56 apud Smith's Bible Dictionary.

412

Num. xviii. 7; Exod. xxx. 7.

413

Kimchi interprets “those days” as meaning “after the death of Jotham.”

414

The reference to the wall of Ophel is peculiar to Chronicles: indeed, Ophel is only mentioned in Chronicles and Nehemiah; it was the southern spur of Mount Moriah (Neh. iii. 26, 27). Vv. 3b-7 are also peculiar to Chronicles.

415

This is usually understood as Nisan, the first month of the ecclesiastical year.

416

xxix. 3-xxxi. 21 (the cleansing of the Temple and accompanying feast, Passover, organisation of the priests and Levites) are substantially peculiar to Chronicles, though in a sense they expand 2 Kings xviii. 4-7, because they fulfil the commandments which Jehovah commanded Moses.

417

Exod. vi. 18, 22; Num. iii. 30, mention Elizaphan as a descendant of Kohath.

418

So Strack-Zockler, i. 1.

419

Lev. i. 6.

420

According to 2 Kings xviii. 10, Samaria was not taken till the sixth year of Hezekiah's reign. It is not necessary for an expositor of Chronicles to attempt to harmonise the two accounts.

421

Cf xxx. 11, 18.

422

xxx. 14; cf. 2 Kings xviii. 4. The chronicler omits the statement that Hezekiah destroyed Moses's brazen serpent, which the people had hitherto worshipped. His readers would not have understood how this corrupt worship survived the reforms of pious kings and priests who observed the law of Moses.

423

Cf. xxix. 34, xxx. 3.

424

Lev. xv. 31.

425

So Bertheau, i. 1, slightly paraphrasing.

426

A.R.V., with Masoretic text, “the priests the Levites”; LXX., Vulg. Syr., “the priests and the Levites.” The former is more likely to be correct. The verse is partly an echo of Deut. xxvi. 15, so that the chronicler naturally uses the Deuteronomic phrase “the priests the Levites”; but he probably does so unconsciously, without intending to make any special claim for the Levites: hence I have omitted the word in the text.

427

xxxii. 2-8, peculiar to Chronicles.

428

xxxii. 30.

429

xxxiii. 11-19, peculiar to Chronicles.

430

So R.V.: A.V., “among the thorns”; R.V. marg., “with hooks”, if so in a figurative sense. Others take the word as a proper name: Hohim.

431

Ezek. xviii. 20.

432

Peter iv. 18.

433

Ezek. xviii. 21-23.

434

Psalm cxxx. 4, probably belonging to about the same period as Chronicles.

435

1 Chron. xxiii. 26, peculiar to Chronicles.

436

2 Chron. vii. 5. The figures are peculiar to Chronicles; 1 Kings viii. 5 says that the victims could not be counted.

437

Jehoiachin. The ordinary reading in 2 Kings xxiv. makes him eighteen.

438

2 xxxvi. 6b, peculiar to Chronicles.

439

Mostly peculiar to Chronicles.