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The Pulpit Commentary on 2 Kings 23:1-37
EXPOSITION 2 Kings 23:1-37 JOSIAH'S RENEWAL OF THE COVENANT. HIS REFORMS AND DEATH. REIGN OF JEHOAHAZ. ACCESSION OF JEHOIAKIM. 2 Kings 23:1-3 Josiah's renewal of the covenant. The first care of Josiah, on receiving Huld…
The Pulpit Commentary on 2 Kings 25:1-30
EXPOSITION 2 Kings 25:1-30 THE LAST SIEGE OF JERUSALEM. THE JEWS LED INTO CAPTIVITY. HISTORY OF THE REMNANT LEFT BEHIND. RELEASE FROM PRISON OF JEHOIACHIN. 2 Kings 25:1-10 LAST SIEGE AND CAPTURE OF JERUSALEM. The open r…
The Pulpit Commentary on 1 Chronicles 13
1 Chronicles 13:6 To Baalah, that is, to Kirjath-jearim (see Joshua 15:9-11; 1 Samuel 4:7; 2 Samuel 6:2; where the name is spelt with a final yod instead of he). A third name of this same place, Kirjath-baal, is found i…
The Pulpit Commentary on 1 Chronicles 14:1-17
EXPOSITION The contents of this chapter belong to a period of time subsequent to the taking of the fort of Zion, and find their parallel in 2 Samuel 5:11-25. But if found here in the same order of place as there, they w…
The Pulpit Commentary on 1 Chronicles 15:1-29
EXPOSITION 1 Chronicles 15:1 The contents of this verse and the following verses up to the twenty-fifth have no parallel in the Book of Samuel, and excite suggestion respecting the different objects with which the compi…
The Pulpit Commentary on 1 Chronicles 16:1-43
EXPOSITION 1 Chronicles 16:1-3 These three verses rather belong to the close of the last chapter, and they carry on the parallel of 2 Samuel 6:1-23. in its 2 Samuel 6:17-19. 1 Chronicles 16:1 In the midst of the tent th…
The Pulpit Commentary on 1 Chronicles 17:1-27
EXPOSITION This chapter is paralleled by 2 Samuel 7:1-29; and the parallel is for the most part very close. The purport of the two accounts may be said to be identical, while the variations of some few words and sentenc…
The Pulpit Commentary on 1 Chronicles 18:1-17
EXPOSITION The course of last chapter's parallel is continued here, and answers closely to 2 Samuel 8:1-18. The present chapter contains the wars and victories of David (2 Samuel 8:1-13), with the arrangements consequen…
The Pulpit Commentary on 1 Chronicles 20:1-8
EXPOSITION The contents of this chapter are all to be found in the work of Samuel, but woven in, in very different places. The cause of the first considerable difference of this kind is in connection with the occurrence…
The Pulpit Commentary on 1 Chronicles 21:1-30
EXPOSITION This very important chapter in David's history is the parallel of 2 Samuel 24:1-25, which contains some details not found here, e.g. the route taken by those who went to number Israel (2 Samuel 24:5-8), and o…
The Pulpit Commentary on 1 Chronicles 23:1-32
EXPOSITION This chapter is the first of four employed on the subject of the Levites and the services distributed among them. The twenty-four orders of priests, sons of Aaron, occupy 1 Chronicles 24:1-31. The twenty-four…
The Pulpit Commentary on 1 Chronicles 24:1-31
EXPOSITION 1 Chronicles 24:1-19 The twenty-four classes of priests. 1 Chronicles 24:1 The Hebrew of this verse reads, And to the sons of Aaron, their divisions מַחְלְקוֹתָם); the sons of Aaron: Nadeb and Abihu, Eleazar…
The Pulpit Commentary on 1 Chronicles 25:1-31
EXPOSITION 1 Chronicles 25:1-8 The families of the three chiefs in song. 1 Chronicles 25:1 The twenty-four courses of those who were to be engaged in the temple service as singers and musicians fill up this chapter. The…
The Pulpit Commentary on 1 Chronicles 26:1-32
EXPOSITION This chapter is occupied in its first nineteen verses with an enumeration of the porters and Then of their arrangement. The porters were those who were to have charge of the entrances of the sanctuary. For at…
The Pulpit Commentary on 1 Chronicles 27:1-34
EXPOSITION This chapter, continuing the general subject of David's arrangements of all the leading departments, sacred and civil, of the kingdom, which he was so soon to yield into the hands of his son Solomon, proceeds…
The Pulpit Commentary on 1 Chronicles 28:1-21
EXPOSITION The contents of this chapter may be said to form one scene with those of the next up to verse 25. They represent David in the presence of a magnificent company of witnesses, the flower of the Church, the mili…
The Pulpit Commentary on 2 Chronicles 1:1-17
EXPOSITION Verse 1-9:31 THE CAREER OF SOLOMON AS KING OF THE UNITED KINGDOM is here commenced, covering the ground to the end of 2 Chronicles 9:1-31. The same period is described in 1 Kings 1-11. And the following table…
The Pulpit Commentary on 2 Chronicles 3:1-17
EXPOSITION 2 Chronicles 3:1 Mount Moriah. This name מוֹריָה occurs twice in the Old Testament, viz. here and Genesis 22:2, in which latter reference it is alluded to as "the land of Moriah," and "one of the mountains" i…
The Pulpit Commentary on 2 Chronicles 4:1-22
EXPOSITION This chapter is occupied with some account of the contents of the house, following naturally upon the account of the structure, dimensions, and main features of the building given in the previous chapter. The…
The Pulpit Commentary on 2 Chronicles 5:1-14
EXPOSITION The first verse of this chapter would have stood more fitly as the last verse of the previous chapter. The narrative, that began with the preparations for building the temple (2 Chronicles 1:1-17 :18- 2 Chron…
The Pulpit Commentary on 2 Chronicles 6:1-42
EXPOSITION The first thirty-nine verses of this chapter (less the thirteenth) correspond very closely with the thirty-eight verses of the parallel that run 1 Kings 8:12-50. For once also the two places are in closer acc…
The Pulpit Commentary on 2 Chronicles 8:1-18
EXPOSITION This interesting historical chapter may very well be described as by Professor Dr. James G. Murphy, in his 'Bible-Class Handbook,' "The Acts of Solomon," or at any rate, some of the miscellaneous acts, for wh…
The Pulpit Commentary on 2 Chronicles 9:1-31
EXPOSITION The writer is about to take his leave of Solomon and the glowing memories of his golden reign; and, whether he designed it or not, he has done so in a most dramatically successful manner in this chapter, and…
The Pulpit Commentary on 2 Chronicles 10:1-19
EXPOSITION This chapter begins the fourth and last great division of the work once called in its unity, "The Chronicles." This fourth and last division, therefore, will see us to the end of our 2 Chronicles 36:1-23; whe…