2 Chronicles 1:1

THE SECOND BOOK OF THE CHRONICLES

Chronological Notes relative to this Book

-Year from the Creation, according to the English Bible, 2989.

-Year before the Incarnation, 1015.

-Year before the first Olympiad, 239.

-Year before the building of Rome, according to Varro, 262.

-Year of the Julian period, 3699.

-Year of the Dionysian period, 507.

-Cycle of the Sun, 3.

-Cycle of the Moon, 13.

-Year of Acastus, the second perpetual archon of the Athenians, 31.

-Pyritiades was king over the Assyrians about this time, according to Scaliger and others. He was the thirty-seventh monarch, including Belus, according to Africanus; and the thirty-third according to Eusebius.

-Year of Alba Sylvius, the sixth king of the Latins, 15.

-Year of Solomon, king of the Hebrews, 1.

CHAPTER I

Solomon, and the chiefs of the congregation, go to Gibeon,

where was the tabernacle of the Lord, and the brazen altar;

and there he offers a thousand sacrifices, 1-6.

The Lord appears to him in a dream, and gives him permission

to ask any gift, 7.

He asks wisdom, 8-10,

which is granted; and riches, wealth, and honour besides,

11, 12.

His kingdom is established, 13.

His chariots, horsemen, and horses, 14.

His abundant riches, 15.

He brings horses, linen yarn, and chariots, at a fixed price,

out of Egypt, 16, 17.

NOTES ON CHAP. I

Verse 2 Chronicles 1:1. And Solomon the son of David] The very beginning of this book shows that it is a continuation of the preceding, and should not be thus formally separated from it. See the preface to the first book. (Above)

The Lord his God was with him] "The WORD of the Lord was his support." - Targum.