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<P><FONT SIZE=+3>First Chronicles</FONT></P>
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<LI><A HREF="MHC13001.HTM">Chapter 1</A>
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<LI><A HREF="MHC13002.HTM">Chapter 2</A>
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<LI><A HREF="MHC13003.HTM">Chapter 3</A>
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<P><B>AN</B></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+2>EXPOSITION,</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+1>W I T H P R A C T I C A L O B S E R V A T I O N S,</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=-1>OF THE FIRST BOOK OF</FONT></P>
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In common things repetition is thought needless and nauseous; but, in
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sacred things, <I>precept must be upon precept and line upon line. To
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me,</I> says the apostle, <I>to write the same things is not grievous,
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but for you it is safe,</I>
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Php+3:1">Phil. iii. 1</A>.
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These books of Chronicles are in a great measure repetition; so are
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much of the second and third of the four evangelists: and yet there are
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no tautologies either here or there no <I>vain repetitions.</I> We may
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be ready to think that of all the books of holy scripture we could best
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spare these two books of Chronicles. Perhaps we might, and yet we could
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ill spare them: for there are many most excellent useful things in
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them, which we find not elsewhere. And as for what we find here which
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we have already met with,
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1. It might be of great use to those who lived when these books were
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first published, before the canon of the Old Testament was completed
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and the particles of it put together; for it would remind them of what
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was more fully related in the other books. Abstracts, abridgments, and
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references, are of use in divinity as well as law. That, perhaps, may
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not be said in vain which yet has been said before.
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2. It is still of use, that <I>out of the mouth of two witnesses every
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word may be established,</I> and, being inculcated, may be remembered.
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The penman of these books is supposed to be Ezra, that <I>ready scribe
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in the law of the Lord,</I>
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ezr+7:6">Ezra vii. 6</A>.
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It is a groundless story of that apocryphal writer
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(<U>2 Esdr. xiv. 21</U>,
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&c.) that, all the law being burnt, Ezra was divinely inspired to write
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it all over again, which yet might take rise from the books of
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Chronicles, where we find, though not all the same story repeated, yet
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the names of all those who were the subjects of that story. These books
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are called in the Hebrew <I>words of days</I>--journals or annals,
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because, by divine direction, collected out of some public and
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authentic records. The collection was made after the captivity, and yet
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the language of the originals, written before, it sometimes retained,
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as
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=2Ch+5:9">2 Chron. v. 9</A>,
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<I>there it is unto this day,</I> which must have been written before
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the destruction of the temple. The LXX. calls it a book
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<B><I>Paraleipomenon</I></B>--of <I>things left,</I> or overlooked, by
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the preceding historians; and several such things there are in it. It
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is the rereward, the gathering host, of this sacred camp, which gathers
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up what remained, that nothing might be lost. In this first book we
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have,
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I. A collection of sacred genealogies, from Adam to David: and they are
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none of those which the apostle calls <I>endless genealogies,</I> but
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have their use and end in Christ,
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=1Ch+1:1-9:44"><I>ch.</I> i.-ix.</A>
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Divers little passages of history are here inserted which we had not
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before.
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II. A repetition of the history of the translation of the kingdom from
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Saul to David, and of the triumph of David's reign, with large
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additions,
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=1Ch+10:1-21:30"><I>ch.</I> x.-xxi.</A>
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III. An original account of the settlement David made of the
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ecclesiastical affairs, and the preparation he made for the building of
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the temple,
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=1Ch+22:1-29:30"><I>ch.</I> xxii-xxix.</A>
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These are <I>words of days,</I> of the oldest days, of the best days,
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of the Old-Testament church. The reigns of kings and dates of kingdoms,
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as well as the lives of common persons, are reckoned by <I>days;</I>
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for a little time often gives a great turn, and yet all time is nothing
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to eternity.</P>
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