The Expositor's Bible: The Books of 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.