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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.
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Cf. xxix. 34, xxx. 3.
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Lev. xv. 31.
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So Bertheau, i. 1, slightly paraphrasing.
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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.
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xxxii. 2-8, peculiar to Chronicles.
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xxxii. 30.
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xxxiii. 11-19, peculiar to Chronicles.
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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.
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Ezek. xviii. 20.
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Peter iv. 18.
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Ezek. xviii. 21-23.
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Psalm cxxx. 4, probably belonging to about the same period as Chronicles.
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1 Chron. xxiii. 26, peculiar to Chronicles.
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2 Chron. vii. 5. The figures are peculiar to Chronicles; 1 Kings viii. 5 says that the victims could not be counted.
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Jehoiachin. The ordinary reading in 2 Kings xxiv. makes him eighteen.
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2 xxxvi. 6b, peculiar to Chronicles.
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Mostly peculiar to Chronicles.